Gautam Pai

[KARNATAKA RTI WORKERS SEVA SAMITHI (R) @RTI_KARNATAKA]

This video from Parangipalya, HSR Layout, allegedly shows a senior citizen being subjected to intimidation and aggressive behaviour by a neighbour. The incident is deeply concerning and has caused fear among local residents.

If the contents of this video are genuine, I request @BlrCityPolice to take cognizance of the matter and conduct a fair and impartial inquiry. Senior citizens should not be afraid to approach the police or seek protection because of the influence or background of any individual.

No person should be above the law. The safety, dignity, and rights of senior citizens must be protected, and appropriate legal action should be taken if any violation is found during the investigation.

@KarnatakaCops @DCPSEBCP @hsrlayoutps @PriyankKharge @India_NHRC

#HSRLayout #Parangipalya #SeniorCitizenSafety #BengaluruPolice

[Bengaluru Post @bengalurupost1]

People are being forced onto the carriageway because someone has occupied the footpath at Hosa Road.

Just look at the traffic—pedestrians are left to navigate between moving vehicles because the space meant for them has been taken over.

There can’t be clearer evidence that this footpath needs to be cleared and restored for public use. @comm_blr_south

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Watch the doctor's reaction when she's hit by that goon corporator.

She goes completely blank.

The exams, sleepless nights & sacrifices it took to become a doctor probably flashed before her eyes.

That thug belongs behind bars for a long time!

[Karnataka Portfolio @karnatakaportf]

Additional footage of maddur road rage incident

Police have arrested Santhosh, Arun Kumar and Abhinandan, all residents of AGS Layout in Bengaluru, and seized the two vehicles allegedly used in the crime. Two other suspects, identified as Venkatesh and Pratap, remain absconding, and efforts are under way to trace them.
#bengaluru #bangalore #maddur #mysuruexpressway @BlrCityPolice @blrcitytraffic @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @alokkumar6994 @DgpKarnataka @karnatakacops @lolita_tnie @christinmp_

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Delhi’s “world-class” model:

Schoolgirls crossing a flooded road by holding an electric transformer.

One current leak away from a tragedy and then the same system will announce compensation, inquiry, and condolences.

[Dr Nimo Yadav 2.0 @DrNimoYadav]

> Bro bought RE bike for ₹3 lakh

> Bro bought an Axor helmet for ₹3.5k

> Bro bid ₹30k for a registration number

> Bro voted for Modi for Acche din

> After all that, bro ended up riding through muddy, slushy roads in Mumbai, economic capital of India

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear @narendramodi and @nitin_gadkari, I urge you to heed science, reason, and the concerns of ordinary Indians.

Here, I explain why India’s E20 policy hurts vehicle owners, water resource, and the environment; and helps the politician-middleman, the sugar, and the liquor lobby:

[मुंबई Matters™🇮🇳 @mumbaimatterz]

Look at this Face Carefully

He may be your
Friend
A Relative
A Neighbor
Or A Office Colleague

Just look at the Behaviour and Attitude when called out

Looks a Remorseless & a Potential Killer on Wheels...

His ACT is not a Challenge to Citizens, but to @MumbaiPolice
@MTPHereToHelp @CPMumbaiPolice @CMOMaharashtra

[Nitin Prajapati @Prajapat204]

उत्तर प्रदेश के "क्योटो" रेलवे स्टेशन का हाल देखिए, पैसा पानी की तरह बह रहा है😂🔥

इसका उद्घाटन हमारे प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी ने किया था.

स्टेशन का असली नाम बताओ, उचित इनाम पाओ.

[Nikhil saini @iNikhilsaini]

Finally, people have started saying enough to this VIP culture. You hardly see this level of roadblocks in most countries. Here, every other day there’s a new VIP, traffic is stopped, ambulances wait, and thousands of people are expected to just keep waiting.
📍 Gwalior

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

CCTV footage from Hyderabad has revealed a clever theft carried out in broad daylight.

The footage shows a thief on a motorcycle deliberately staging a fake fall by letting his bike drop onto the road, making it appear as though he had lost control. Seeing this, a passerby rushes over to help him lift the motorcycle.

As the passerby is focused on helping, a second thief arrives pretending to help as well. While the passerby's attention is on the fallen motorcycle, the second thief quietly steals his mobile phone or wallet from his pocket. Within seconds, both thieves ride away on the motorcycle.

Crimes like these do more than steal a phone or a wallet. They exploit human kindness. Every such incident makes people hesitate before helping strangers, fearing it could be another trap. When criminals misuse compassion, they don't just rob one person, they weaken the trust that holds society together.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

In UP's Hamirpur, a sub-inspector took lift from a truck driver. It is alleged that upon disembarking at a toll plaza, the sub-inspector proceeded to depart in his personal vehicle. The driver subsequently discovered that ₹20,000 were missing from his possession. The driver pursued the sub-inspector for approximately 13 kilometers and apprehended him. The money was recovered from within the sub-inspector's uniform.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Video of mob attack on a family on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway captured on dashcam of another car.

[terefifas @terefifas]

Ahí está su cara

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

An investigative reporting which should've been done by a mainstream media house was done by a 17 year old boy. Our godi media is busy protecting the people in power.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[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. :)

[Gautam Pai @gautampai7]

@archygupta22 Microsoft actually ditched Claude for their own internal model GitHub not because Claude was costly.

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

"Congress high command offered me Rajya Sabha seat"

"I declined as I have no interest in national politics"

"I will remain in state politics"

"I still have two years to serve as MLA"

"Next Karnataka CM will be decided by the high command and Congress Legislative Party"

- Siddaramaiah