anikgangal

Curious thinker| Political observer| Stream and chill| Ardent motorsport fan| Penchant for reading classic novels - All over a chilled beer and good company.

[anikgangal @anik991]

@ravikeerthi22 Similar one should be done outside of sandal soap factory metro station!

[anikgangal @anik991]

@simscircuit Hahaha!

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[Formula 1 @F1]

GHOST CAR! 👻 It was mighty tight between Russell and Hamilton ⚔️

Lewis was so close to taking his first pole for Ferrari 🤏

#F1 #BarcelonaGP

[anikgangal @anik991]

It is so the case these days that whenever there is a crash i just hope it is not Charles. I really hope, for Charles own good and Ferrari's, he believes the car that is under him. The technical team has delivered unbelievable update to fight. Tomorrow is the race, forza Charles!

[CL16 inside 🇲🇨 @CL16_inside]

Forza Charles 💪❤️

[Maranello Paddock @FerrariF1FRA]

Les amis, il faut tout simplement tirer son chapeau à toute l'équipe technique de Ferrari. Être à 64 millièmes de la Pole position avec un déficit de 6% de moteur, c'est tout simplement STRATOSPHÉRIQUE. Les améliorations fonctionnent ÉNORMÉMENT sur la SF-26. Je n'ai plus les mots pour décrire le travail de Loïc Serra.

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

Viceroy Gor needs to be called in ! Period ! All negotiations on trade deal need to stop. There is a limit of America to keep attacking India Manned crews !

Who the hell is United States to decide what is sanctioned where will i get my oil from. It is now time to defy & assert !

Chinese tankers & shadow fleet is also going, but Americans dare not touch it !

This is not done @narendramodi & @DrSJaishankar ! Atleast speak up for your men. Name USA call it out. Just for few Oligarchs their business dealings, National interests cannot be sacrificed !

[Aravind @aravind]

The DS identified this man as a major threat to their easy manipulation of India very early on. They desperately tried to stop him from ever leading the country.

The moment he became CM, they ignited issues, branded him with every possible label, attempted to sanction him, and even revoked his visas.

They unleashed tens of thousands of pages of propaganda reports against him, both inside India and abroad. They weaponised the opposition and the courts to flood him with cases from every direction.

Yet he overcame it all. To become the PM of the world’s largest democracy. Despite all the hit jobs, sabotage, and propaganda, he remains the most popular leader on the planet.

He has turned every adversity into an advantage. "Being Anti-fragile" is his mantra. And he has made India anti-fragile too. We have seen the nation emerge stronger from every crisis thrown at it.

I believe he will also resolve the infowar crisis. The main force behind it will be weakened and broken by him. It will be a fitting feather in his cap before he retires as not only India’s longest serving PM, but its most impactful one.

History will remember him as the one who transformed India not just in infrastructure and development, but forged a confident, self-reliant nation that stands proud on the global stage.

[anikgangal @anik991]

I am surprised he is not in jail yet.

[Gulte @GulteOfficial]

"Hitler's core team was called HYDRA. They could assassinate anyone.

I took inspiration from Hitler and named the organization HYDRAA."

– #RevanthReddy about HYDRAA

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

One more borderline racist opinion piece from @TheEconomist ...... here making fun of the Indian "uncle". Now, north Indians like making fun of the proverbial "phuphaji" - the bane of every family wedding. In Bengal, it is the eternally annoyed "pishi". I am sure other parts of India have their equivalent. However, the Economist is trying to convert this into some sort of political Gen Z thing by mocking the older generation. This is a serious cultural misunderstanding. We make fun of "phupha-ji" as a default - and this was true of all previous generations. Even phuphajis make fun of phuphajis. The journalist at Economist is trying to force fit their "angry, white male" stereotype that is a staple of the Western Left in their home market; tone deaf and contrived when applied to India.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The Singapore government is trying to block access to social media posts (some featuring videos, many in Chinese) warning citizens that their nation is being overrun by ethnic Indians.

The content originated on China-based platforms such as Douyin, Rednote and TikTok.

Singapore handles foreign information operations with unusual clarity and decisiveness. It identifies them early, then compels platforms to block the content so it never reaches Singaporean eyes.

I remain skeptical that this game of censorship whack-a-mole can ever be fully won, but there is real value in ministers publicly naming the source and explaining exactly why these narratives are subversive.

The narratives being peddled claim that Singapore’s multiracial model is just a “facade” to placate Western sensibilities, and that the country has really always been anchored by its Chinese-majority demographics.

They assert that “Singapore’s culture is fundamentally Chinese,” and that the government’s decision to distance itself from Beijing while ignoring the “threat” of a growing Indian community will end in disaster.

The videos portray the Chinese majority as under siege by an increasingly powerful Indian minority, including politicians. They single out President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, of Indian heritage, and warn that “curry concentration” (yes, really) is eroding Chinese cultural dominance.

This coordinated push arrived immediately after Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent viral remarks in China where he reminded Beijing that Singapore-China ties are based on “mutual benefit and shared interests, not ethnicity.”

He drew a clear red line saying that Singapore is sovereign and not an overseas extension of the PRC. Chinese netizens and state-aligned voices reacted with indignation, framing it as ingratitude from “ethnic kin” who should show deference to the motherland. The subtext was clear: how dare Singapore prioritize its Indian, Malay, and other communities over blood-and-soil solidarity with the CCP?

Connect the dots to Beijing’s broader information warfare against Israel, the United States, and others, and the pattern becomes clearer. Especially since Oct 7th, Beijing has weaponized antisemitism as a wedge issue.

On its tightly censored platforms, state media and influencers have let Hitler memes, "Jews control America" conspiracies, and Nazi comparisons proliferate unchecked. This all has spilled out into global social media.

What is the goal? Fracture the West, erode US-Israel ties, poison diaspora debates, sow domestic discord, and paint America's alliances as puppets of a shadowy cabal. It's created and amplified because it distracts, divides, and weakens the very coalition (MAGA) containing Chinese expansion.

Now, apply this same lens to the sudden surge of anti-Indian content in Singapore and even in the US, particularly targeting tech circles. While organic frustrations (H-1B abuse, cultural friction) exist, the volume, timing, and precision point to deliberate seeding.

Amplify resentment against Indian professionals and you damage the American-India tech alliance, the most credible long-term hedge against China dependence. It disrupts supply-chain diversification and poison talent pipelines in Silicon Valley.

In Singapore, the same operation pits the Chinese majority against the Indian community, weakening society from within. This should be recognized for what it is: classic United Front work in the digital world. It's low-cost, high-impact subversion with plausible deniability.

China doesn’t need naval fleets in the Strait of Malacca when it can export ethnic poison to fracture societies from within. A divided Singapore becomes a less reliable financial and technological anchor for US interests in Southeast Asia. A majority-Chinese Singapore riled up by Indian invasion narratives becomes more inclined to embrace the ethnic ties to the motherland and advocate for deepening Singapore's ties to the CCP.

Likewise, a fractured US-India partnership keeps supply chains tethered to the PRC. Stoked antisemitism keeps the West chasing ghosts instead of confronting the primary challenge of our era.

Western democracies cannot and should not copy Singapore’s blunt censorship model. But we must learn from its vigilance.

We are all being targeted by sophisticated, state-driven influence campaigns designed to exploit our existing fault lines.

Recognizing the playbook is the first step toward resisting it. The price of complacency is a more divided, weaker, and more easily manipulated world.

[anikgangal @anik991]

Can absolutely vouch for this. As I walk a min of 20 mins back and forth. Really makes me feel good walking to the metro station.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

An IISc study on Bengaluru’s Yellow Line shows something important: commuters are walking an additional 10-15 minutes every day, experiencing lower stress levels, and reporting better physical, mental, and social well-being.

This is how great public transport transforms cities. Countries like Japan, where public transport is widely used, have long benefited from healthier and more active lifestyles.

But the study also highlights a serious concern. Metro fares for 10-20 km journeys in Bengaluru are often ₹60-₹70, making them among the highest in the country and unaffordable for many families.

The way forward is clear:
• Expand the Metro
• Reduce fares
• Improve last-mile connectivity
• Ensure safe pedestrian access
• Strengthen intermodal integration

Building Metro lines is not enough. We must make public transport affordable, accessible, and commuter-friendly. I hope this is the approach the Karnataka Government adopts.

@NewIndianXpress

https://t.co/cjjWN3mqPo

[anikgangal @anik991]

Really loved the mindset that was on display right from the start of the tournament, and that is of being "Attacking Champions". It was flowing in the veins of each player on the field. Let's gun for something never achieved before, a three peat! @RCBTweets congratulations 🎉

[anikgangal @anik991]

These actions have to be taken prior not after things go down. That's why you perform all sorts of testing required

[CBSE HQ @cbseindia29]

We have been closely monitoring the vulnerabilities in the OnMark portal of our service provider that are being flagged in the public domain. An expert team of cybersecurity professionals has been deployed over the last few days from across various arms of the government as well as the IITs to fortify these systems, including taking them over to a more secure set up. The identified vulnerabilities have been contained, and other exploitable weaknesses are being ruled out.
We are grateful to all alert citizens and ethical hackers pointing out such weaknesses, and have gotten in touch with some of them directly.
We request any others to reach out to our security teams at [email protected] for any further inputs.

@dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia @sanjayjavin @PIB_India @PIB_Edu @DDNewslive @AkashvaniAIR @airnewsalerts @PTI_News

[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. :)

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

Yogendra Yadav is to politics what Audrey T is to history.

[S.Jayashankar @jaypanicker]

Didn't you say that there is no freedom of press in India? If so, then how are you able to find such articles, written with a sole agenda of antagonizing the government, in Indian media? The fake propaganda of you and your ilk falls flat simply with such articles. No wonder Indians neither take you nor outlets like Wire seriously anymore.

[Aravind @aravind]

Can we all give a salute to Sidhant? His question caught Marco off-guard and forced him to reply. And his reply suddenly made his boss and many of the MAGA who call India and Indians sick things stupid.

Like the US state dept declared "officially stupid." And it is true, no matter they take down the post. Marco himself is being targeted racially by these stupid racists now.

This was the first time I saw an Indian journo ask some uncomfortable questions to these visiting dignitaries who are generally treated very reverently in India.

Sidhant didn't back down too when Marco tried to get confrontational after getting caught off-guard by this question. Only Dr. J seemed to try intervene. That's OK, it was a diplomatic thing to do.

So kudos to Sidhant. He has now made the US officially address the racism issue and officially call the people who do it stupid. I hope now the Trump admin acts on this issue destroying India-US relationship.

Because this racism and hate for Indians and Hindus in the last two years of Trump admin did not start organically. I didn't see the same last term. So what changed this term?

This time it was seeded with an operation by adversaries infiltrating American social media as MAGA accounts to incite normal Americans against India, Indians, and specifically Hindus.

It is weak the US, under Trump admin, will allow its own social media companies to be used by Islamists and Communists to wreck India-US relations or dictate American foreign and immigration policies influencing MAGA.

[Slim @onu_slim]

Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.

The official story blames fungal blight.

But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.

An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.

That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.

Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?

Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.

The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.

Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.

[Nirmalya Dutta @NonsensicalNemo]

https://t.co/1tYCKrB5x0