Aslam

Allergic to this universe.

[deni @fiagirly]

HAMILTON VS VERSTAPPEN 🔥🔥🥵🥵

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I’m dead 😂😂😂

“The atmosphere Israeli awkward” 😂

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Spandan Roy @talksports45]

2018 might actually be the best year for Virat Kohli in international cricket. 2735 runs at an avg of 68.37, including 11 centuries. The overall batting average in test cricket in 2018, was 27.58, the lowest since 1960s.

The 2 test series in particular, the Freedom Trophy in South Africa, India's batting average was 19.15, Virat Kohli's batting average was 47.67, followed by the Pataudi Trophy in England. India's batting average was 23.9, Kohli's average was 59.3. Scored a test 100 in SA, Eng, Aus and India.

His scores in ODI cricket in 2018- 112,46*,160*,75,36,129*,75,45,71,140,
157*,107,16,33*. 14 innings and 9 50+ scores, including 5 Not Outs.

[Bharath Ramaraj @Fancricket12]

India were grouped alongside Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines in the qualifying. The rest of the teams withdrew (WW II had left many countries broken) and India qualified. Due to massive costs and India prioritising Olympics, they didn't play in the WC in '50.

Even if those teams had participated in the qualifying, India would have likely come through; they were one of the best teams in Asia until 1962. In the 1948 Olympics, India had pushed France to the brink before losing 1-2.

Under Rahim sir, they had Chuni, PK, Tulsidas, Neville, Venkatesh. They also won a couple of Asian Games Gold Medals. The famous one being in '62.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[إكـه 🇸🇦 @hilaly_1_]

كذا اصح ياابن الكلب

[BLACKCAPS @BLACKCAPS]

An exceptional career, by the numbers.

[⚡ @Visharad_KW22]

that bat twirl

[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

If you see this photo, put a dot to break the silence.

[Dr. T R B Rajaa @TRBRajaa]

I am extremely confident that if we refrain from politicising investment promotion and reassure investors that TN will ensure policy continuity and consistently follow up on necessary clearances, then every single MoU that the #DravidianModel govt under our Thalaivar @mkstalin signed will be grounded in TN creating millions of #JobsForTN.

At the same time I also urge the new govt and everyone responsible to understand that we need to reassure the investment fraternity that TamilNadu will remain the most favoured destination due to it’s professional approach to Investment Promotion, EoDB and rapid Policy updates/tweaks which match global winds of change and are in tune with the nations sectoral push 🙏🏾 Certain developments in the last few days are worrying and I hope corrective measures are taken asap.

As my Leader keeps reiterating, all of us must work AS ONE when it comes to the overall growth of the state. TN must continue to remain the #1 investment destination in not just India but also in South Asia♥️🙏🏾

#InvestInTN #BullishOnTN

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Listen to this 2-minute, eye-opening interview of Umar Khalid 🔥

This should go viral.

[Barry Andrews MEP @BarryAndrewsMEP]

Israel just killed a 7-month old baby boy

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Each circle has a different story

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

Mr Nags is suffering from success 😎

Post match presentation party gatecrashed! Mr. Nags was our toughest challenge of the season, even on the night of the final. Find out what happened, when he spoke to some special guests. 😭😂

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

We asked ourselves a question last year- can we go back to back?

Here we are again 🏆🏆❤️❤️

@RCBTweets

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

For the badge, always. ⭐️⭐️

[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. :)