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@ByRakeshSimha What clownery! In the era of AI and what not technology at hand, the exam agencies are busy stripping students off their dignity. Beaurocratic corruption and moral bankruptcy have led us to this situation. If cheating is this rampant who is to be blamed?
@DocPriyamMD So what should the drug alternative be for patients who have been prescribed such. I am talking about GERD post surgery for Achlasia Cardia?
Welcome to Bangladesh... oh wait, sorry, this is India.
This is the condition of one of India's largest and busiest railway stations, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Uttar Pradesh.
The BJP is in power both at the Centre and in the state, so I'm wondering what's stopping the authorities from cleaning up this mess.
P.S. I've filed multiple complaints about this, but it seems @DRM_DDU is too busy building retirement corpus to pay attention :)
India wants to become a $10 trillion economy.
But CBSE could not protect a password.
And no.
This is not a joke.
18.5 lakh Class 12 students appeared for CBSE Board Exams in 2026.
Their answer sheets were handed to a company with 51 employees.
A teenager reportedly broke into the system within minutes.
This was not innovation.
It was institutional comedy.
CBSE launched On-Screen Marking.
OSM.
The promise?
Transparency.
Accuracy.
Speed.
The result?
Swapped answer sheets.
Blurred scans.
Missing pages.
Portal crashes.
Embarrassment.
Some students opened photocopies of their answer books.
They found someone else's handwriting under their roll number.
Now look at the scale.
18.5 lakh students.
26 countries.
7,574 exam centres.
120 subjects.
98 lakh answer booklets.
40 crore pages.
77,000 teachers logging in.
All processed in 10 days.
And managed by a company smaller than many CBSE schools.
Then came the tender.
Two companies qualified.
TCS.
600,000 employees.
57 years of credibility.
$29 billion revenue.
And Coempt Edu Teck.
51 employees.
Guess who won.
Not the company trusted by banks.
Airlines.
Governments.
Stock exchanges.
The other one.
But there is a twist.
Coempt was once called Globarena Technologies.
The same company linked to Telangana's 2019 Intermediate Exam fiasco.
3.8 lakh students received wrong marks.
Toppers became failures.
3 lakh sought reverification.
20 students died by suicide in eight days.
Months later.
Globarena changed its name.
The memories remained.
Then came the cybersecurity masterpiece.
OTP verification on the browser.
Not the server.
Password resets without old passwords.
Examiner IDs editable from browser storage.
And a master password sitting inside public source code.
No encryption.
No hashing.
Just there.
A School project is much secured and Scalable than this.
Like keeping jewellery outside a jewellery shop with a sign saying:
"Please don't touch."
CERT-In was reportedly informed in February 2026.
The platform went live anyway.
77,000 teacher logins.
40 crore pages.
No fix.
70,000 answer books required rescanning.
15,000 shifted back to physical evaluation.
The digital revolution quietly asked for revaluation.
Then officials defended the system.
And later called IITs to help fix it.
Which is a bit like crashing a bus and then inviting ISRO to explain gravity.
Now comes the uncomfortable question.
TCS was on the shortlist.
TCS lost.
A company carrying the baggage of a past exam controversy won.
How?
Who approved it?
Who reviewed the risks?
Who signed the file?
Nobody seems eager to answer.
NEET chaos.
Now CBSE chaos.
Every year we hear the same slogans.
Student-centric.
Technology-driven.
Future-ready.
Wonderful words.
Terrible execution.
India does not have a shortage of talent.
India has a shortage of accountability.
Mr. Education Minister, will you answer?
2017 में पेट्रोलियम मंत्री रहे व वर्तमान में शिक्षा मंत्री धर्मेंद्र प्रधान की बेटी के इंटरनेशनल सिम कार्ड का 68,424 रूपये का बिल सरकारी कंपनी पेट्रोनेट एलएनजी ने भरा....
मंत्रियों के बच्चों के बिल सरकार भरे और 22 लाख नीट के बच्चों के भविष्य का कोई हिसाब नहीं?
"Just as a surgeon maintains sterile conditions, a priest maintains ritual purity" - Pandit ji busts the false untouchability propaganda run by seculars to malign Hindus.
अपने कुत्ते को ���ुमाने के लिए पूरा Stadium खाली करवाने वाले IAS संजीव खैरवार !
को तो शायद आप सब लोग भूल गए हो पर याद दिलवा दूं अब बही IAS संजीव खैरवार !
पूरे DELHI MCD के COMMISSIONER नियुक्त कर दिए गए है !
ये बही IAS है जो 2021 में सिर्फ अपने कुत्तों को घुमाने के लिए !
तैयारी करवाने वाले ATHLETES को टाइम से पहले ही घर भेज दिया जाता था !
अब इनको दिल्ली में MCD कमिश्नर बना दिया गया है !
#UPSCPRe2026
#दुर्लभ_दर्शन_संत_के
@SHEKARSUSHEEL Such immortal renditions; I remember my father & uncles playing and listening to these melodies over tea with discussions about compositions and their background stories with us kids around. Now the next generation immerses itself in these songs with just as much interest.
Her name was Ruchika Girhotra.
She was 14 years old. A tennis player from Panchkula, Haryana.
On August 12 1990, she went to meet S.P.S. Rathore at his office. He was the Inspector General of Police and head of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association. He had promised her father he would arrange special coaching for her.
When her friend stepped out of the room, he molested her.
Her family filed a complaint three days later.
Rathore had her expelled from school. Her father was suspended from his bank job on false charges. Six cases were filed against her brother Ashu. The family's house was forcibly sold. They fled to the outskirts of Shimla and took up earth filling work to survive.
On December 28 1993, days after Ashu was paraded in handcuffs through their neighbourhood, Ruchika consumed poison.
She died the next day. She was 17.
Rathore threw a party that night.
He then refused to release her body to her father unless he signed blank papers. Those papers were later used to forge documents accepting a false autopsy report.
Despite a police inquiry recommending an FIR against him, Rathore kept getting promoted. He became the Director General of Police of Haryana in 1999.
The case went through 40 adjournments and more than 400 hearings over 19 years.
In December 2009 a court convicted him of molestation. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined Rs 1,000.
The sentence was later enhanced to 18 months. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 2016 but reduced it to the time already served. He walked free.
The judge who tried to add abetment to suicide charges against him was forced into premature retirement.
The judge who dismissed those charges was a neighbour of Ruchika's family involved in a property dispute with them.
S.P.S. Rathore was later invited as a VIP guest to a Republic Day event in Panchkula.
Ruchika Girhotra was 14 when he molested. She was 17 when she died.
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So, I’ve been booking Tatkal tickets for quite some time now, and in most cases, I’ve managed to book successfully, even on some of the busiest routes in India until recently.
The last 2-3 weeks have been completely different. Everything, including the RailOne app, IRCTC Rail Connect app, and IRCTC website, keeps throwing different errors, and many times you can’t even reach the payment page.
While @AshwiniVaishnaw and @RailMinIndia claim server capacity has been increased and action has been taken against agents and bots, based on my personal experience, this was effective for some time but now things seem to have gotten worse instead of better in recent times.
His name was Lalit Mehta.
He was 36 years old. A civil engineer from Jharkhand who could have worked anywhere. He stayed in Palamu, one of the most corruption ridden districts in the country.
In 1990, he built software. Not for a company. He wrote a programme that made it nearly impossible for government contractors to inflate costs and siphon off public money. He gave it away free.
He built 125 small irrigation dams with local communities at nearly half the government estimated cost. He trained villagers to file RTIs and audit government work themselves.
In May 2008, he began a social audit of NREGA projects in Chatarpur. Out of 108 names on the payment register, only 8 had actually worked. Signatures were forged. Job cards were in the names of people who had migrated. One was in the name of a dead man. An entire 5 lakh rupees pond project was fake.
He compiled everything onto a CD.
He was travelling to meet Jean Dreze the next morning to continue the audit.
He never arrived.
On May 14, 2008, his body was found in the Kandra jungle. A belt around his neck. His face smashed beyond recognition. He was buried as an unidentified body before anyone could reach him. Villagers later identified him from his clothes and exhumed the body themselves.
He is survived by his wife Ashrita Tirkey, whom he married defying caste pressure, and two sons.
His father Jagdish Mehta still holds the CD containing the evidence Lalit died to protect.
No one has been convicted for his murder.
Follow for real stories about people India must never forget.
@SHEKARSUSHEEL The music and orchestra is outstanding, the male version by Bhupen Hazarika ji,I feel, is far more soulful. One of the best lines of this song " ये हवा सब ले गई, कारवाँ के निशान भी उड़ा ले गई"
The Indigo mess has exposed something ugly — not just in the system, but in us.
1. We are brave only at home. If this crisis had unfolded at Heathrow or JFK, every stranded Indian would have quietly queued up, swallowed the pain, and behaved. But here, we suddenly discover courage in mobs. We are bullies.
2. Our outrage is selective. If Indian Railways cancelled hundreds of trains, it wouldn’t trend for 48 hours. Media doesn’t travel by sleeper class anymore. The railway passenger is reduced to the ‘cattle class’ stereotype. Empathy ends where discomfort begins for elites.
3. Those who failed in Indigo, DGCA, and the government remain unnamed. But the staff at the counters suffer public humiliation. These frontline workers didn’t design the system, didn’t cause the crisis, don’t have real answers nor in control of the situation nor have the solution. Yet they absorb every insult from entitled passengers. They deserve applause, not abuse.
4. Look at airfares during the chaos — Bengaluru return tickets crossed ₹1 lakh. That wasn’t pricing. It was profiteering. When systems collapse, the market becomes a vulture.
5. Before we crucify airlines, can we calculate how much money the government extracts through GST, fuel taxes, airport charges, and regulatory fees — versus what airlines actually retain? If someone did that arithmetic, the narrative would be very different.
This crisis didn’t just show operational failure — it showed who we really are as a society: entitled indoors, submissive abroad, apathetic to the invisible traveller, and blind to structural greed. The only people who walked out with dignity were the lowest-paid employees - the ones we shouted at.
In Maharashtra, the Kumbh Mela will take place in Nashik. To provide accommodation for the sadhus and mahants coming for the event, a “Sadhugram” is planned. But for this, nearly 1,700 trees will be cut, many of them 40 to 50 years old.
The Kumbh Mela will last only for a month. Is it really necessary to cut such old and valuable trees for something so temporary? Today, very few people plant trees and take care of them, so why remove the ones we already have? After all, the sadhus can sit in the shade of these very trees.
This is something we should seriously think @CMOMaharashtra
@Nandini79330932 @SHEKARSUSHEEL One such kind was this song from Naram Garam.
https://t.co/0ZoMqWjYnk
Happened to see the trailer of 120 Bahadur by Farhan Akhtar.
The movie brings the brave story of Major Shaitan Singh Bhati and the 123 Soldiers of the Kumaon Regiment, who fought till the last man and the last bullet against 3000+ Chinese soldiers, in the Battle of Rezang La
The trailer was amazing, and it sent me to do some reading.
At first, I was inspired. Then I stumbled upon a sad story that made me question the very character of us as a nation.
But some history first.
The 1962 War between India and China was independent India's first reality check of international relations. It all started with the India - China border, which was always a contentious one. Both didn't agree with each other on its definition.
Our then PM who used to think that his personal charisma was enough as a diplomatic tool and thought fancy terms like Panchsheel and Speaking Good English in UN was enough to counter Chinese aggression, he embarked on what he called the "Forward Policy"
It was a fancy term for sending unprepared soldiers to dispersed positions on mountain tops which were 18000 ft above sea level. And to make things worse, we sent them with inadequate clothing, equipment, weapons, intelligence and an absolute lack of strategy.
The Chinese predictably took advantage of this cluelessness and attacked us.
Initially they raked up victory after victory in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh. They even captured Tawang. They thought this war would be a walkover and trained their eyes on Ladakh.
They thought capturing Ladakh would be easy.
Unfortunately, they didn't account for Major Singh and his 123 men from the Kumaon Regiment.
On 18th Nov 1962, they came to an isolated place in Ladakh called Rezang La. It was the last point between them and another place called Chushul, which was the gateway to Ladakh.
Lulled into a false sense of confidence and expecting an easy victory, 3000 Chinese soldiers thought all they had to do was walk in and they would capture Rezang la.
But Major Singh and his men had other ideas.
On that day, they decided to show the Chinese what a Great wall actually looked like.
At 18,000 feet above sea level, in temperatures which were 20 to 30 degrees below zero, Major Singh and his men, using Machine Guns and mortars repelled wave after wave of Chinese invaders.
At times, when they ran out of ammo, they resorted to brutal hand to hand fighting to throw the Chinese back.
For 6-8 hours, Major Singh and his men sent hundreds of Chinese to the Chinese version of Valhalla. They fought with such incredible daring and bravery that they gave a serious inferiority complex to the Spartans of Thermopylae.
Unfortunately, the Chinese had too many soldiers, and eventually they surrounded Major Singh and his men.
Of his 123 men, 114 men, including Maj Singh made the ultimate sacrifice for the country. Most of them died, with their weapons in hand and facing toward the enemy. It was a performance that made Gods weep.
The performance of Major Singh and his men shocked the Chinese. This was the fiercest resistance they had faced till that point in the war.
Realizing things aren't going to be easy for them anymore, three days later, they declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew.
For his Supreme Sacrifice and his bravery that would make Lord Narasimha himself proud, Major Bhati was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously.
His brave exploits had not only moved India. It had made an impact on the Chinese and the Americans as well. So much so, that they still teach about him and his men in the PLA War College and West Point, on how to defend.
But this post is not about his brave saga. I am sure Farhan Akhtar would tell it better than me.
This post is about what his family faced at the hands of our heartless and rapacious bureaucracy and our impotent judiciary, after his heroic sacrifice.
As a wife of a fallen hero, Major Singh's widow Sugan Kunwari was eligible for 60% of Major Singh's salary as pension. But for some reason, she was only given 30%.
The Govt as gratuity gave Rs 4000 to her in 1963, and given what Major Singh had done, they bloody well had to. But the govt babudom being govt babudom, they recovered it from her pension in 1964.
The Indian babu who actually passed this order was like "You could be a war hero and might have repelled the Chinese and all, but you can't repel our rules and regulations"
Then the Indian govt "liberalized" the pension rules in 1972, but Sugan Kunwari continued receiving the pension under the old scheme till, I kid you not, 1996.
Add to that, she was supposed to get a gratuity of Rs 9500 as per the new rules. She didn't get that as well.
I guess maybe some memo granting her the pension, got blocked in some file on a random table in South Block.
To claim his rightful money, the family of Major Singh filed a case in the Armed forces Tribunal - Jaipur in 1996, for the arrears between 1972 and 1995 and the revised gratuity.
They didn't even ask for retrospective implementation of pension rules since 1962, because unlike the rotten scoundrels of our bureaucracy, they were honest people. And this was the money that was rightfully theirs.
Ideally speaking, the day someone finds out that a hero like Major Singh was wronged, every authority, every official, every armed force guy would move heaven and earth to right that wrong.
As a war hero, we think his files would have been processed in record time and within 24 hours, the family of Major Singh would have received the shortfall with interest, and an apology note from the seniormost army general of the area, right?
Wrong
The case my friends, 30 years later, is still going on.
Major Singh's widow, unfortunately passed away in 2015 without a verdict and was still receiving the old pension.
His son continued the case, but he has not been heard since 2016, as there was apparently no judge at the Armed forces tribunal in Jaipur.
As of 2021, when there are last traces of this case, it was still going on.
If the family of a war hero, who gave his life for the nation, a Param Vir Chakra awardee, someone whose bust the govt inaugurated in the national war memorial in all pomp and glory, and someone who is a hero to us all, is treated like this by our babudom, then what chance do we stand?
There is a line in the song based on this war which says "Kar Chale hum fida jaano, ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyon"
Major Singh gave his life so that we could have our country and our tomorrow. Have we justified his sacrifice?
I don't think we have.
The nation which forgets is real heroes, is doomed to live with false useless ones.
I think we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
P:S: Considering the difference, I don't think the total amount would be more than Rs 10 Lakhs, including interest.
This is the bribe money that a corrupt clerk collects before lunch time. Or a corrupt judge throws out in a raid.
And we strung Major Singh's family for this, for over 30 years now.
@IndianTechGuide All this data for watching reels endlessly, along with a cup of tea, PRICELESS! Vishwaguru in the making with a nation of lazy, unemployed youth dependent on free doles from the government 👊👍
Caste Census – BJP
NEET Reservation – BJP
SC/ST Act Amendment – BJP
73% Reservation Proposal in MP – BJP
85% Reservation Talks in Bihar – BJP
BJP turned out more unfaithful to the General Category than even Congress ever was.
#AntiGeneralCategoryBJP 🚨
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Born and raised in Pakistan’s Punjab, Jalaal Ram had a small shop where he did kashida work (Kashmiri embroidery)
A maulvi from a nearby mosque, Rashid Khan, began visiting an adjoining tea stall. He once heard Jalaal playing bhajans on the radio and went to him. He said, “This is all you have in your religion - bhajans. In our religion, you get jannat”
Jalaal replied with a laugh that he was content and had no desire for jannat. To this the maulvi said, “You will not only get jannat but also nikah with any girl you want.” The maulvi began visiting routinely.
After a few months, Jalaal Ram got married - to a girl from his Hindu Bhil community. The maulvi now turned hostile. He went to him with a group and declared that Jalaal must “decide” - was he accepting Islam or rejecting it?
Terrified, Jalaal Ram began keeping his shop shut during namaz times. He learnt that the maulvi was inquiring about his house
It was 1999. Jalaal saw that many young Hindus were leaving for India for safety and he decided to do the same. By the time he got the tourist visa to India for himself and his wife, it was 2000. Like other Hindus, he planned to enter India on a tourist visa and then apply for a long-term visa, never to return to Pakistan
When word spread, the maulvi led 21 men to loot Jalaal’a house, snatch cash and jewellery, and demand his passport. Jalaal had hidden his documents in a matka and pretended he had not applied for visa at all. They told him he would only get his belongings back if he “told them his decision” about converting. Jalaal Ram said he needed a few days to think
On the due date, he quietly took 50,000 Pakistani rupees from his aged father-in-law and left for India in the dead of night.
_____
Today, 25 years later, he lives in Jaisalmer with two daughters and two sons
His elder daughter, married recently, has become the target of another gang of Islamists.
A gang including Mohd Qurban Khan and Mohd Shabbir - Mewati migrant labourers living in Rajasthan - sexually assaulted her
The ringleader had stalked her since she was 16, demanding she elope for conversion-nikah. When she chose to marry as per her family’s wishes, they kidnapped and sexually assaulted her on 5 August
For 25 days, Jalaal has sat on dharna outside the Jaisalmer DM’s office. He alleges police took bribes and refused arrests until refugees themselves erupted in protest
Our @RashtraJyoti team met Jalaal Ram and heard this account from him. We have assured him of full support, including financial assistance for his legal battle
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