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[Dr. SP @sphavisha]

A disturbing pattern keeps emerging.

First, SEBI alleges Rajesh Exports misrepresented ₹15.15 lakh crore of revenue while LIC sat on a ~11% stake.

The Washington Post reported earlier that a $3.9 billion LIC-backed rescue plan was allegedly crafted to shore up the Adani empire after U.S. fraud and bribery charges.

Different companies. Same bagholder: LIC.

When profits are privatized, public institutions cheer. When risks explode, the savings of millions of ordinary Indians are left exposed.

India deserves a LIC that protects policyholders—not politically connected corporate empires
https://t.co/cnhXI91bYi

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

A solicitor general has stepped in to order that anyone asking for Modi's degree must be penalised.

If you can decipher, please explain.

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

The EU capped ethanol blending at E10 for regular unleaded, protecting older vehicles on the road. The USA's E15 is still optional, not forced. India made E20 the only option at every pump. Even the West didn't go this far. Brainless decisions from mindless politicians.

[Manish Sharma @Cheekytogeeky]

be @ni5arga

→ 19 years old, from West Bengal, studied in Delhi for a few years
→ just finished his own Class 12 exams in 2026
→ calls himself a hobbyist cybersecurity researcher
→ says he is an engineer, not a hacker
→ built an OSINT engine, a stock-tracking TUI, a pastebin in Rust
→ once found bugs in FOSS United and disclosed them quietly
→ just another CBSE student watching his own board roll out a new digital marking system

then he opened the portal

→ CBSE moves Class 12 evaluation to On-Screen Marking, 1.8 million students affected
→ Nisarga sees the portal link is fully public, gets curious
→ opens DevTools, downloads the Angular JavaScript bundle
→ first vulnerability found in 30 minutes
→ a literal master password sitting in plain text inside the frontend code
→ enter it, the OTP field auto-fills, the entire login flow gets bypassed
→ OTP validation happens in the user's browser, not on the server
→ no route guards, every internal page reachable by editing browser storage
→ password reset API never checks the old password
→ systemic IDOR across the entire API, change one value in sessionStorage, become any examiner
→ outcome: take over any teacher account, view answer sheets, edit marks

25 February 2026. He reports everything to CERT-In the same day.

→ CERT-In asks for a screen recording, he sends a full walkthrough
→ acknowledgement comes back as a boilerplate reply
→ reference number assigned: CERTIn-16590126
→ he follows up multiple times. no response.
→ three months pass. portal still live. Class 12 results released. vulnerabilities still there.
→ 22 May: publishes the blog post and a thread on X
→ Deedy Das, Satish Acharya, Internet Freedom Foundation amplify it
→ the post goes viral
→ CBSE issues a clarification: that was just a test portal, no breach
→ the URL CBSE cited in their own tweet was not even a registered domain
→ a friend buys the domain and points it at Nisarga's blog
→ CBSE quietly deletes the tweet

then it gets worse

→ 25 May: finds an SQL injection vulnerability on the live production portal
→ reports to CERT-In, gets a one-line thank you
→ gains admin access to the live https://t.co/1WpmNGsczK server
→ portal stays up for four more hours
→ he uploads anime videos and memes, links them publicly from CBSE servers
→ plays a viral Japanese song on a CBSE page, makes the news for it
→ CBSE finally takes the whole portal down

then he reads the database

→ master table accessed: 10 GB, 9.3 million records
→ examiner names, addresses, school names, bank account details
→ passwords stored in plain text
→ login tokens anyone can paste into a browser to log in as that user
→ 31 May: finds a second live CBSE production portal, 45,074 records of failed payments
→ emails, phone numbers, payment IDs, order IDs, all readable
→ 31 May, the bigger one: an AWS S3 bucket is misconfigured
→ ListObjectsV2 works without authentication, the bucket root is listable
→ samples pulled from 18 lakh scanned 2026 answer sheets, every subject
→ multiple institutions sharing the same bucket
→ also notices something strange in the scans: bedsheets visible in the background of answer sheets CBSE paid for proper scanners to handle

CBSE responds

→ posts an AI-generated image saying the system is robust and secure
→ three days later admits some vulnerabilities existed and have been contained
→ refuses to name the cybersecurity firm doing the audit
→ claims they tried contacting him. he says they have not.

→ Internet Freedom Foundation writes to the Ministry of Education and CERT-In
→ asks for an investigation into CBSE, a review of the contract with vendor Coempt EduTeck, a full audit

→ he points out he could have sold this data and made a lot of money
→ he did not. he is a CBSE student too.
→ his own analogy: the door wasn't just unlocked. the key was lying on the ground in front of everyone.

a 19-year-old with a anima pff broke a national exam evaluation system in 30 minutes with browser developer tools and the government is still pretending it was a test environment

[exit30b @exit30b]

on CBSE Reddit, many kids are *struggling* to accept Rahul Gandhi is making sense, is right, is speaking for them. hilarious.

[Helle @Oyemisty]

Indian Great Prime Minister Modi's Masterstroke

Crude oil at $138 — Petrol price = ₹102
Crude oil at $87 — Petrol price = ₹115

Earlier, the fuel blend was 20% ethanol + petrol.

Now, the fuel blend is 30% ethanol + petrol.

Truly a masterstroke on taxpayers.

The people running the petrol companies never let the Prime Minister's friends incur any losses. They squeeze money out of the country's citizens and channel profits to their corporate friends.

Almost everything related to food and daily consumption has become more expensive, yet the Indian media says that an increase in petrol prices affects an ordinary person's life by only ₹261.

Someone should explain to these uneducated news anchors which sectors are affected when petrol prices rise in any country...

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Interesting timing.

RBI is suddenly considering polymer notes. But let’s look at who benefits.

▪️ Adani Enterprises set up Mundra Petrochem Ltd in 2021; a greenfield PVC & polymer plant at Mundra, Gujarat.

▪️ Polymer banknotes are made from BOPP (Bi-axially Oriented Polypropylene) films; exactly the polymer category Adani’s ₹34,900 Cr petchem cluster is built around.

▪️ India’s domestic polymer production capacity is woefully short (~1.59 MT vs 4 MT demand). Guess who just received environment clearances to fill that gap?

▪️ The same Modi govt that gave Adani airports, ports, roads, coal, solar & defence contracts; is now handing RBI a “cost-efficiency” pitch that happens to need BOPP polymer at industrial scale.

Demonetisation destroyed cash. Now they want to control how cash is made.

No open tender announced. No Parliamentary debate. Just two RBI board meetings, and a ready supply chain conveniently owned by a friend.

Ask yourself: why does every reform in India eventually route money to the same address?

This isn’t progress. It’s procurement.

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

And here it is! RIP cars in India! At this point, only an idiot would buy a new car without questioning what lies ahead!

I wouldn’t be surprised if Isobutanol trials have already started, just like ethanol blending did. We’re already hearing of diesel vehicles facing fuel pump failures, DPF issues, and other fuel-related problems.

What’s even more concerning is that many owners of 100% diesel vehicles are already reporting a noticeable drop in fuel efficiency. I’ve personally seen reduced mileage in vehicles like the Toyota Hilux and Innova.

If new fuels are being tested or blended, the public has a right to know. I’m ready to put my own vehicle up for testing, but don’t make millions of vehicle owners unknowing participants in an experiment.
Transparency should come first! 🙏🏻

@nitin_gadkari @HardeepSPuri

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

→ Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

→ Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

→ A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

→ Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

→ Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

[Nachiket Deshpande @nachiket1982]

Govt in 2021: "Ethanol blending will make fuel cheaper!"
Govt now: "Actually, ethanol procurement is costlier than base petrol"
Yet premium 100-octane "unadulterated" petrol is priced at a massive premium (₹160+/L).
So we pay top rupee for "pure" petrol, but pay the exact same inflated price for E20 adulterated blend that gives less mileage and damages our vehicles .
The math isn’t mathing. Who is actually winning here? #E20 #EthanolBlending

@PetroleumMin
@nitin_gadkari
@PMOIndia

[TCA Sharad Raghavan @SharadRaghavan]

If you're wondering why the government and RBI are suddenly concerned about your fuel spending and gold purchases, the RBI annual report released today has the answer:

A short thread 👇

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

1 in 2 vehicles suffering. 80% older vehicles losing mileage. 25% users reporting 20%+ efficiency drop. The ARAI warned of 6-7% loss; reality is far worse.

But here’s what they won’t tell you:

Nikhil Gadkari’s CIAN Agro Industries, ethanol supplier, revenue jumped from ₹18 Cr to ₹523 Cr in ONE year. Stock up 2100%. Brother Sarang’s Manas Agro went from ₹5,990 Cr to ₹9,591 Cr. Both family firms. Both ethanol. Both booming since Papa pushed the policy.

Nitin Gadkari has been aggressively lobbying for ethanol since 2014. Mandatory E20 rollout happened April 2025. Congress demanded a Lokpal probe. But Modi? Silence.

14 crore+ vehicle owners didn’t vote for higher fuel bills, broken engines, and a 20%+ mileage cut. They voted for “acche din.” Instead they’re subsidising one minister’s family empire.

One minister’s conflict of interest. The entire nation paying the bill.

Modi must answer: Why sugarcane based ethanol specifically? Why not flex fuels? Why no compensation for vehicle owners? Why no Lokpal inquiry?

This isn’t green energy policy. This is state-sponsored wealth transfer.

[Zafar Shaikh @InvesysCapital]

I have worked in R&D of Tata Motors.

Tata would test 10's of vehicles over lakhs of Kms of single model over years before vehicle launch. Heck, they would just smash 4-5 vehicles for crash testing & safety rating.

The change this massive in fuel system of nation would require testing & validation across different brands of all petrol 2W& 4W vehicles spanning across 100's of vehicles over few years before giving all clear.

While different agencies claim E20 compatibility, an RTI requesting test reports to be made public was rejected 😅

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

ANI : "Wuhan Doctor"
Chinese Embassy in India : "Indian Doctor".

Dr. Syed Mohammed Ghouse is a Urologist from Hyderabad, Stationed in Wuhan.

[Sriram @SriramMadras]

Sandhya,

The core issue with @TVKVijayHQ and his team comes down to the stark gap between campaigning and governing. Winning an election is all about marketing, branding, and keeping people hooked, skills that a "reels culture" excels at. He seems to have a fantastic team for this specific purpose.

However, running a state requires institutional memory, policy depth, and a true understanding of how government machinery works. Leaders like Anna, Kalaignar, MGR, and Jayalalithaa didn’t just inherit power; they spent decades navigating the complex social fabric of the state. Because they rose through a long, grinding political process, the people they surrounded themselves with were equally tested.

To use a simple example, the legacy leaders built their administration like hiring a master mason who has spent thirty years laying bricks, knowing exactly how the soil shifts and where the structural weak points are. Think of figures like Nedunchezhiyan (Navalar) or R.M. Veerappan, who knew the state's pulse because they had lived it. In contrast, the modern political startup method is like hiring a brilliant graphic designer to draw a beautiful 3D model of a house on a computer. It looks flawless and gets thousands of likes online, but when it comes time to actually pour the concrete, they don't know the ratio of sand to water.

When a cabinet is filled with people whose primary skill is managing a public image, they treat real-world administration like a media shoot. But, governance doesn't have a "second take” or an “edit option”. When an inexperienced minister makes a massive policy gaffe on live television, they can't just delete the video and re-upload an edited version; the real-world consequences are immediate which is what everybody is seeing now.

This lack of domain expertise leads straight into a dangerous trap: handing the car keys over to the bureaucrats. While IAS and IPS officers are highly educated, a government entirely run by civil servants without strong political direction is like a massive ship on auto-pilot with no captain. A bureaucrat’s job is to minimize risk and follow existing codes, not to innovate. When MGR took office, he relied on brilliant minds around him, and MGR provided the political will.

Imagine this, Kalaignar who never had a formal education gave direction to the bureaucracy to introduce computer education at schools in 1970. He also introduced the state's first IT policy in 1997, he used experts to write the technical details, but the vision to push Tamil Nadu into the digital age came from his own deep reading and foresight. Without seasoned ministers to guide them, bureaucrats will keep the system waiting for direction, a direction that either never comes, or comes with zero political experience behind it.

Finally, when you only have one Minister with experience, it creates a severe operational bottleneck. Imagine running a major hospital where you have only 4 world-class surgeons, but the other twenty doctors on staff are social media influencers who have only watched “medical reels” on performing surgeries, and they are actually inside the operation theatres. That’s how scary it is now.

A functioning government cannot rely on a tiny handful of people to do all the heavy lifting while the rest of the cabinet causes daily public relations fires. Without a deep bench of capable, widely read leaders, the entire administration begins to look amateurish, no matter how great the branding team is.

If Vijay doesn’t fix these in 2-3 months, the State will witness a chaos never seen in the history of Tamil Nadu.

[Devika @Deyveeka]

Indian Govt has planned to set up such data centers in India where people already struggle with extreme heat and water crisis. Modi will turn India into hell!

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

₹34–40 lakh crore, that’s how much BJP allegedly extracted from Indians between 2014 and 2026 through massive fuel taxation while denying people the benefit of low crude oil prices. And now they cry like babies over absorbing ₹30,000 crore? What a shame. Indians were made to pay the price for years.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Gadkari’s sons run ethanol firms.
Cian Agro Industries revenue: ₹18 Cr → ₹523 Cr. Stock up 2,100%.

Now E30 is being “notified” for the nation.

30% ethanol = 30% less energy density. Your vehicle loses mileage. Your engine corrodes. Your rubber seals crack. Your wallet bleeds at the mechanic.

Meanwhile older vehicles; the ones crores of middle-class and working-class Indians drive; aren’t even compatible.

Two-wheeler companies and Shell India themselves have warned about engine damage on pre-2023 vehicles.

This isn’t energy policy. This is a family business expansion, stamped with a government seal.

E20 was already destroying engines silently. Now they want E30.

The nation’s fuel tank is being used to fill the Gadkari family’s treasury.

[Kapil @kapsology]

If she were a journalist in India, authorities would first be sent to inspect whether her house had an extended balcony, and then a bulldozer would be dispatched to demolish it.

Her media group would be ordered to sack her, and if they refused, the ED would have knocked on their doors by now.

Her phone would probably be bugged using Pegasus.

Some forgotten tweet from 2014 would be presented as a threat to national security.

A panel of professional outrage experts would appear every evening to explain how asking questions is actually a foreign conspiracy.

A fresh FIR would appear in three different states over the exact same sentence.

Her passport status would suddenly become a matter of urgent national concern.

If she moved to YouTube, her channel would somehow violate policy within hours.

And by the end of it all, she would be politely advised that “India has complete freedom of speech”..

.. as long as the speech is pre-approved.

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Since the story is paywalled, I've posted screenshots of the start and end of it. Foreign media seems to be covering the alarming direction in which Indian equities are heading, with a lot more detail and candour than Indian mainstream media.

https://t.co/aZheoxAR36