Sumedh

CA Finalist. Indian cricket& Man Utd fanatic. Just another arm chair critic. Non-fiction reader& occasional scribbler. Politically aware. FPL- 🌎 rank 1255

[Sumedh @fergieetime]

What a fun season and a personal best OR to top it off! #fpl #fplcommunity

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Peak irony: London cancels conference on extreme heat… because of extreme heat

The venue had no air conditioning.

Organizers were forced to cancel the event because attendees simply wouldn't have been able to cope with the temperatures inside.

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

Mumbai just witnessed 52% of June average rains in just 12 hours! 🫡 #MumbaiRains

[Venkata Krishna B @venkatatweets]

A day where Chepauk voiced its support for Rohit. Every move on the field, including handing Prasidh’s cap to the umpire was cheered and every run brought applause. And Rohit showed if he is backed, he will have runs to show.
https://t.co/adYQ95KCdP

[Sumedh @fergieetime]

@pratyush93_raj 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Out Of Context Cricket @GemsOfCricket]

3 changes you would make in this ?

[Bharat Sundaresan @beastieboy07]

Maybe it’s just me feeling romantic about Test cricket but so wonderful to see @nassercricket & @StuartBroad8 spend nearly 3-4 deliveries of an over without saying anything & letting the sounds of Test cricket do the talking on @SkyCricket

[Yusuf Unjhawala 🇮🇳 @YusufDFI]

Interesting that PM Modi from India an invitee to the G7 summit, is in the front row next to the host President Macron, while some leaders of actual G7 countries are in the second row.

[Sumedh @fergieetime]

@KayLFC05_ @TimesSport @garyjacob https://t.co/TfVTxhRigo

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCL: Bryan Mbuemo decides he wants to join Man Utd & #MUFC now expected to open talks with Brentford in bid to sign 25yo forward this summer. Likes of #AFC #NUFC #THFC all interested but Cameroon int’l favours Old Trafford if deal agreed @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/GQzsop35pI

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

[TOI Sports @toisports]

🏏🇮🇳 India still had one foot in an older version of T20 cricket when Surya came into the side.

Now, as he has been left out, India have become a team filled with T20 specialists.

✊ SKY, The 'disruptor' who led India's T20 revolution

@Shubhanshu_19 ✍️
https://t.co/SY08fUwwF4

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

Blinkit knows when your toddler has your phone, and it’s lowkey terrifying.

I was trying to trick my toddler that chocolates were out of stock, so I typed gibberish (the way a toddler would) into the search.

Look at the exact products the app served up as a fallback.

[Drink water Alt @ColdCoffeeEra]

You will always be my T20 goat , Surya Kumar Yadav 🩵

[Sumedh @fergieetime]

@FrankEra_ Missed putting something in CAPS here pal

[Nikhil Naz @NikhilNaz]

From being dropped from the BCCI central contract list in 2024, to missing out on the Indian team for both the 2024 & 2026 T20 World Cup, to now becoming the new skipper of the Indian T20 team- how life’s turned around for Shreyas Iyer.

[Anuj Nitin Prabhu @APTalksCricket]

If this is the end..then want to take a moment to be grateful to have witnessed the greatest T20 batter India has produced at his absolute peak for more than two years.

A man who defied all odds and stayed true to his brand even when the time was tough..thank you Surya ❤️🧿

[The Reverse Sweep @trspodcastt]

If Suryakumar Yadav's India career is actually over time to reflect back to the first ball he faced against Jofra Archer at Ahmedabad on his debut and hit a six!

He announced himself to the International cricket and Surya will always be a prime example of don't complain keep working hard , keep pushing the door till the limits when they can't ignore you.

To making India debut at around 30 years and then winning t20 wc as a player and then going on and winning a home t20 worldcup as a captain.

Suryakumar Yadav will always be the first and pure modern day t20 batter in India. He guided the way of how to approach modern day t20 cricket

His peak was unreal. Was averaging 40+ at 170+ SR once. Or maybe more.

Good things happen to good people! Kept his head down and kept working hard.

Will always be his fan! No matter what people say. He truly replicates the word "Insaan acha hona chahiye"

#TeamIndia

[𝐄𝐑 @ErlingRoIe]

This has made my year

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

Someone said Gabriel was trying to win a corner 😭😭😭

[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. :)

[Sumedh @fergieetime]

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The freak knock aside, rest of RR went at <10 rpo.. wonder if it suggests a 210 pitch rather than a 250 run highway