Lez

One Club. One Love. Arsenal.

Witty , Sarcastic and also a half decent writer.

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

🚨 #ExpressInvestigation | Since he took oath as CM of Madhya Pradesh on December 13, 2023, Mohan Yadav’s family and their real estate companies have bought at least 137 plots, adding up to 168 acres, for Rs 45 crore, in zones most benefited by this infrastructure push, an investigation of land records by @mazoomdaar has found.

https://t.co/FEMW9VC7hm

[𝖢𝖺𝗍𝖺𝗅𝖾𝗒𝖺 @catale7a]

Telegram thought, Indian judiciary is independent

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Did what he set out to do.

Your 2025/26 Player of the Season, Declan Rice 🏅

[Maximilian Uriarte @TLCplMax]

Me on the plane watching the movie the guy in front of me is watching with no sound:

[shitpost spidey (🕸️🕷️ @dhebshxbxbb]

scary movie 6
24 jump street

the logical next step

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Me refusing to sleep because i didn't get enough time to feel like human after work

[Uncle Chu @datchuguyy]

“If you take Arsenal women football out of the total numbers, you’re looking at double digits decline in attendance. Arsenal women accounts for 41% of the attendance in the Women Super League, there is a huge decline in attendance“

Charlie Stebbings (Sports Analyst)

[Ryan @RyanMKIV]

Start crying under an Arsenal fans tweet and you’ll fit right in.

[Lord EDWIN the 2nd @EdwinJunior419]

This is the shit we had to deal with you and you want me to be triggered by saying our prem this year was rigged. Ok. LOOOOOOL

[Jamie Kent @BigBearKentlaar]

Arsenal had a game in a title race in which VAR quite literally didn’t draw the lines for an offside goal, causing them to drop points.

We can go on about what Man City got away with alone last season that isn’t documented in the article if you like?

Or do you want to talk about how you’re weeks away from being found guilty on your 115 charges, making all your achievements literally won via cheating?

I’ll wait.

[Piddy @PiddyPyro]

nobody wanted Arsenal to win the Prem because we thought their fans were gonna be unbearable and annoying, but whats ended up happening is everyone else has become completely unbearable instead, crying and belittling their achievements as much as possible just to fuel agendas

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

Today ED has raided Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Group.

Cute coincidence na 😊

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Shirt sales for Arsenal defender Gabriel increased by 350 per cent after the centre-back missed a crucial penalty in his side’s Champions League final defeat on Saturday.

Gabriel, 28, took the final penalty in the shootout, but his effort went over the bar, and Paris Saint-Germain were crowned Champions League winners for the second consecutive season.

However, despite the disappointment for the Brazilian, fans have responded by buying his shirt en masse. The 28-year-old became the top-selling name printed on shirts over the weekend.

At one point, sales of the Brazil international’s shirt doubled those of any other shirt being sold.

More from @gunnerblog and @nnamdionye ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/tbA927zt2V

[LiveScore @livescore]

Arsenal’s title parade drew a 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃 crowd 🤯🏆

1.5 million fans transformed London into a sea of red 🔴

[14 @AFC_K8]

المقطع هذا تاريخي بشكل مو طبيعي!!!😰😰😰

[𝐌 @MooreRMCF]

I actually agree and can’t fault having a PSG player as the MOTM because they won but it would be so nice if awards are given without certain contexts.

For the 120 mins’ the ball was in play for, there was no better player on that pitch yesterday than Gabriel Magalhaes.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is an unbelievable piece of work by Sarthak and something that requires amplification.

Let me explain what he found, in simple terms.

Sarthak is a Class 12 student from the 2025-26 batch, one of the 17 lakh students whose answer sheets went through CBSE's new On-Screen Marking system.

He spent days reading through CBSE's evaluation tenders, scraped all 576 tenders CBSE has issued, and tracked how the rules changed across three versions of the same tender.

The core finding is that the company that won the contract to scan and grade 17 lakh students' answer sheets is Coempt Eduteck.

Coempt used to be called Globarena Technologies. Globarena was the company behind the 2019 Telangana intermediate exam disaster, where software failures led to 3.8 lakh students getting wrong or missing marks, and 23 students died by suicide.

A government committee found systemic failure and negligence. Six months later, Globarena rebranded to Coempt Eduteck.

So a company with that track record won a contract to handle 17 lakh CBSE students. Sarthak's investigation is about how the rules were rewritten to let that happen.

The tender was issued three times.

> First tender, February 2025. It existed, then disappeared from the public GeM portal. Sarthak scraped all 576 CBSE tenders and this one was missing from the archive entirely.

> Second tender, May 2025. Four companies applied including TCS and Coempt. All four failed the technical evaluation. Cancelled.

> Third tender, August 2025. Coempt won. Between the second and third tender, a series of rule changes happened, and every single one made it easier for Coempt to qualify.

Here is what changed, one by one.

01. The old rules disqualified any company with a history of abandoning work, failing to complete contracts, or financial weakness. The new rules deleted this clause entirely. Coempt's Telangana history stopped being a barrier.

02. The old rules disqualified any company that was "blacklisted earlier." The new rules changed this to "currently blacklisted." Because Globarena rebranded after Telangana, removing the word "earlier" effectively erased their past.

03. The rules required Rs 50 crore average turnover over three years. Coempt's exact average came to Rs 50.86 crore. They cleared the bar by less than 1%. Earlier, a smaller company had asked CBSE to lower the bar to Rs 30 crore for fairer competition. CBSE refused. So the bar was kept high enough to block small players, but sat exactly low enough for Coempt to scrape through.

04. Software maturity is measured on the CMMI scale, 1 to 5. The old rules required Level 5. The new rules dropped it to Level 3. Coempt is a Level 3 company.

05. The cooling-off period for engaging retired CBSE officials was cut from two years to one. This makes it easier to use recently retired insiders to influence the process.

06. The old rules required experience with large projects of at least 5 lakh students each. The new rules removed the student count and counted cumulative answer-book volume across small projects instead. Coempt has many small fragmented university contracts. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS.

07. The old rules required bidders to own their own data centre and disaster recovery centre on Indian soil. The new rules allowed third-party MeitY-empanelled cloud hosting. Coempt runs on AWS and Azure. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS, which owns its own data centres. It also means student data is no longer on sovereign, Indian infrastructure.

08. The old rules required the bidder to own or control the complete source code of its software. The new rules deleted this. Coempt's platform runs on Microsoft's proprietary IIS, which they don't own.

09. A last-minute corrigendum, issued right before bid submission, removed CBSE's own power to blacklist the firm if its software failed catastrophically. So even a Telangana-scale failure couldn't get Coempt banned from future government tenders.

10. The penalty structure shifted from punishing mistakes to punishing delays. The old rules fined the vendor for wrong scanning, merged pages, and unscanned books. The new rules dropped those and instead levied Rs 50,000 per day for delays. This incentivises rushed scanning over accurate scanning.

11. The old rules had a hard accuracy threshold, error rate not to exceed 0.5%. The new rules removed this number entirely.

12. The old rules specified proper book and robotics scanners. The new rules just say "sufficient scanners." The definition was vague enough that, as Sarthak notes, the scanning could be done with a phone on a stand.

13. On the security side, the contract required a VAPT (vulnerability and penetration test) certified by CERT-In before go-live, and a restricted beta phase before launch. The system clearly wasn't restricted, because the other researcher, Nisarga, was able to access it and find vulnerabilities four days before go-live. So the mandatory security audit appears to have been bypassed.

These are more than a dozen rule changes, all between the failed tender and the winning tender, all pushing in the same direction, all benefiting the one company with the worst track record in the field.

The security holes Nisarga found last week now have an explanation. The system was built by a vendor that was specifically allowed to skip the security certification, the source code ownership, the data sovereignty, and the quality thresholds the original rules demanded.

Following things need to happen immediately;

1. An immediate CAG audit of the tender process.
2. A parliamentary debate on the topic.
3. An independent investigation into
> Why the first tender vanished?
> Why the disqualification clauses were deleted?
> Why the turnover bar was held exactly where it was?
> Why the security level was dropped?
> Why the blacklisting power was removed at the last moment?

Sarthak, this is genuinely exceptional investigative work. Far better than most journalists with full resources ever manage. Take a bow. :)

[Harshet Katyal @OoohToBeAGunner]

Like thousands of Arsenal fans in Budapest I'm looking for a ticket (preferably Arsenal end) that doesn't need me to sell my house.

I had a confirmed ticket and I've been let down terribly.

This would be my 54th game of the season if I manage to get a ticket. Help & RT please

[Max @MaxRadwan]

If David Raya starts tomorrow, he will be Arsenal’s first ‘no.1’ to play in a major final for the club in over 15 years. Arsenal have fielded their ‘backup’ goalkeeper in each of their last seven finals.