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[anuvee @anuvee1]

@Majuli_Chapori Mast!

[anuvee @anuvee1]

Never make the mistake from ordering from Arihant Depot.
Ordered CET books and got https://t.co/AJj73lm3Gz 8 th grade math book instead.Lost Rs800/_ in the process.@arihantpub

[Dr. SP @sphavisha]

A young man who travelled from Rajasthan for the protest shared a heartbreaking story. Pradeep Meghwal, from a neighboring village, had appeared for NEET for the third time. When the paper leak scandal shattered hopes yet again, he died by suicide. 💔

He was the only brother among three sisters.

Behind every exam irregularity is a human story, a family carrying unimaginable grief, and dreams that can never be restored. Will those in power finally listen to the pain of students and their families?

#cjpprotest

[Teesta Setalvad @TeestaSetalvad]

In fifty locations, youth leaders. Saluts to @IYC and @nsui

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[MSD @MSDinindian]

@AJEnglish Caught godi media red handed today at cockroach janta party protest there is a whole ecosystem they have in indian politics they are very well funded as well as protected by by the state #cjp_पार्टी

[Rohini Singh @rohini_sgh]

Opposition parties like the Congress have been vociferously protesting for the last several days but get no coverage from Noida channels and even independent journalists on YouTube. And then ‘neutrals’ give gyaan on why the opposition isn’t on the streets!

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Listen to what Professor Nandita Narain, legendary Maths teacher of DU & former President DUTA is saying about what ails University education today & why she joined the Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Latest: On May 10, PM Modi urged us to carpool, use public transport and save fuel.

We tracked his activities since the war began and found: in 70 days, he travelled to 53 cities, attended 81 events across 12 states, including 25 roadshows.

Only 13/81 events were official events. Reporting for @thewire_in with Aashna Ajmera:

https://t.co/kHcSwsYp5W

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

@ni5arga @cbseindia29 good morning CBSE, you said you used scanners to scan these copies,

now since the copies are out to the public view, do you mind explaining

which copies when scanned through a scanner, have a drop shadow? and these 3 folds?

did you really use scanners?

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Actually am quite pleasantly surprised that all these teenagers and their parents were okay to appear in this video. That’s the kind of grit a lot of people haven’t shown. The simple act of speaking up

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

The Farsi in our surnames by @ramanuj_shastry

[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. :)

[Anne Anish @AnneAnish]

🌳 No green cover left, yet more construction permissions? 🏗️⚠️

When trees are cut in Baner, compensatory trees must be planted in the SAME AREA — not somewhere else. 🌱❌

Concrete cannot replace nature. 🚨🌍

#SaveTrees #Baner #Pune #GreenCover #StopConcreteJungle #SavePune

[anuvee @anuvee1]

@MeghnaPant @rpomumbai Pathetic

[sushma date @sushmadate]

This is a call to everyone who cares about #Pune's environment. Our beloved city is becoming unlivable thanks to the massive tree felling going on for projects that are unlikely to solve the city's many problems.

To understand this ecological crisis and discuss the way forward, please attend this meeting planned by an apolitical umbrella coalition of concerned citizens.

Date: Saturday 30th May at 10 am
Venue: UWA Hall, opp Vikhe Patil School, Gokhalenagar, Pune

🌳Your Voice 🌱Your City 🌿Your Future

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Milind, you forgot to include the "informal tax": shit infrastructure, polluted air, polluted water, corrupt & inept civic bodies and police force, extractive and corrupt bureaucracy and politicians who get freebies and still want more.

Read the room.

[anuvee @anuvee1]

@sushmadate @bhaumikgowande India needs a robust public education system,there is no doubt about that. The current dispensation is looking to privatise it .

[Anjali Bhardwaj @AnjaliB_]

The ECI must IMMEDIATELY upload Form 17C (the only statutory proof of voter turnout) for each polling booth where elections took place in West Bengal today. Commission must declare how many tokens were distributed at 6pm for voters standing in queue at each booth. That’s the minimum level of transparency expected in such a fraught election.