द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship

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[Nachiket Deshpande @nachiket1982]

To the public: "E20 fuel is safe and fully tested."
To the Supreme Court: "It’s just an experiment, we’ll know results next year."

The government completely lied about E20 readiness. They rushed this rollout to serve vested interests and corporate logistics, leaving millions of everyday vehicle owners to act as guinea pigs in a forced, destructive trial. Complete betrayal of public trust. #EthanolScam

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[ICC @ICC]

Supporting her through every stage of the cricketing journey 🙌

The ICC’s Return to Play Post-Pregnancy Guidelines reflects cricket’s commitment to creating an environment where female players are empowered to return to the game safely, confidently and with the support they deserve.

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[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

I guess @VaibhavSV12 is trying to tell the Lankans...this may not be IPL but it's not too different.
A 11-ball fifty, fastest in List A and a 29-ball 94 giving his team a e-cricket kinda score...

Can hear alarm bells in the Indian domestic circuit!! #IndAvSLA #ChildProdigy #bcci

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

Is it just me or does everyone see what's wrong here? #ManipalHospitals #Heartattack #serious #MarketingFails #AdvertisingFail #Cardiology

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

Teams play IPL to win trophies, but sometimes your style of cricket helps gain fans and build a loyal fanbase. GT plays boring cricket, effective but doesn't excite.
They choose consistency over chaos and flambouyance... #RCBvGT #IPLFinal #IPL2026

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

Imagine this....12th students are better journalists and are doing a better job!!

That's what it will take sadly, coz the people in charge are neither capable, nor responsible.

[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. :)

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

This is sooo good...this comparison kinda gives us some idea of what we are seeing and even these numbers are less!! Its just mind boggling....

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

680 runs at strike rate of 243 with 45.3 average across 15 games sounds unreal already. But here’s how absurd Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s IPL 2026 really is:
A batter scoring 45 off 19 balls every single innings for 15 times would still strike slower & average lower than him. A team scoring 290 in 20 overs every match would still finish with a lower strike rate.
He sustained that violence across an entire tournament.

I don't think we fully understand what we're watching.

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

Do you see it too?
#TimDavid #KabirBedi

[Vipin Saroha @vipinsarohayt]

No Indian Prime Minister had visited Norway in the last 43 years. But Modi ji went. Do you know why?

On February 27, 2026, Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund blacklisted Adani's company, Adani Green Energy.

A massive oil reserve was discovered in Norway's seas in 1990. By selling this oil, Norway started generating a vast amount of money. However, Norway knew that oil would not last forever, so they created a fund and began depositing the oil revenue into it.

Norway invests the money from this fund exclusively outside Norway so that its economy remains unaffected under any circumstances. This fund primarily invests money in the stock market, in lending to other countries, in purchasing properties abroad, and in renewable energy projects like solar and wind energy.

It holds 1.5% of the shares of listed companies worldwide. This Norwegian fund owns shares in 7,200 companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia. The fund has so much money that if it were distributed among every citizen of Norway, each person would receive more than 3 crore rupees.

This fund maintains high ethical standards. It does not invest in companies that manufacture tobacco, produce nuclear weapons, violate human rights, or engage in corruption. It blacklists them. It was precisely due to serious allegations of corruption against Adani that it blacklisted his company.

Now understand the chronology:
No Prime Minister had visited Norway for 43 years. Norway blacklisted Adani Green on February 26, and on May 18, Modi ji arrived in Norway. He got delayed only because the Bengal elections came up in between, otherwise, our beloved Modi ji would not have waited even a single moment for his friend. Is there really anything left to explain?

Over in America, when a case was filed against Adani for allegedly giving a bribe of 2,000 crore rupees, a trade deal was struck with America. Under this deal, the doors of India were opened for American agricultural companies, tariffs were imposed on Indian companies in America, and India received absolutely nothing in return.

A few days later, the American court closed Adani's case permanently. And now, Adani will invest 1 billion dollars in America.

Do you people still have any doubt that the honor of this country is being sold to save Adani?

You people think that the Prime Minister is yours, but Adani has kept the Prime Minister for his own work...

Narendra Modi is compromised.

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

@prempanicker @faisalshariff Still remember his Test debut...if I am not mistaken, it was the last few overs before end of play. Score was 48/0 in about 8-9 overs against Wasim & Waqar and Ramesh scored 33 of them mostly through boundaries.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Modi asked you to eat less oil, skip gold, work from home.

Sitharaman told you to eat out less and watch your expenses.

BJP IT Cell told you “India is the fastest growing economy.”

Meanwhile, Indian Express’s Udit Misra just filed the autopsy report:

🔴 Rupee: ₹86 → ₹96 in ONE year. Quietly.

🔴 Net FDI gone NEGATIVE; Indians building factories abroad because they don’t trust this government’s economy

🔴 BOTH current account AND capital account in deficit; simultaneously. First time. Ever.

🔴 Per capita income = ₹20,000/month. MOST Indians earn below even that.

🔴 Exports? Almost stagnant and flat; after 12 years of “make in India”,

And Misra confirmed, the government KNEW this for 2 years. They hid it during elections. The call only came once votes were counted.

This isn’t bad luck. This isn’t Iran. This isn’t Trump.

This is what 12 years of suit-boot economics, crony capitalism, and GDP optics actually looks like underneath.

Rahul Gandhi called it in July 2025: “Indian economy is DEAD.”

The Indian Express just put the post-mortem report on the table.

They didn’t mismanage the economy.

They HID the mismanagement from you; until after you voted.

That’s not incompetence. That’s a betrayal. 🇮🇳 💔

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

Love how passionate people are in this country about cricket. But someone who I am sure has not played cricket at a very competitive level is asking Virat to play sensible cricket!!

Twitter has some real gems!

[𝚅𝚊𝚛𝚞𝚗¹⁸ @varunx18]

Steps RCB should take today if they're serious about winning title :

1. Drop Romario Shepherd and bring in Jacob Duffy or Venkatesh Iyer.
2. Drop Suyash Sharma and bring someone who can take wickets while bowling economically.
3. Drop Jitesh Sharma and bring wicketkeeper Jordan Cox.
4. Tell Virat Kohli to play sensible cricket, no need to slog every ball. He is our biggest match winner and we need him at the crease for at least 10 overs.
5. If Bethell is playing, then at least try his bowling once and see what he can do with the ball.

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

This is mind blowing 🤯

> 7 AAP MPs switched to BJP.

> 3 of them had cases against themselves in Punjab & Haryana HC

> All 3 cases magically went to the same court of Justice Sheel Nagu.

> All 3 of them got instant relief

Joining BJP also gives you a free immunity card through judiciary.

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

@ABsay_ek You're awesome! Keep at it...DM'ed you...let's connect

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Look at the map again. Mumbai is at 32°C, next to the sea. Delhi is at 40°C, almost 900 km from the nearest coast. The sea cools Mumbai. We took Delhi's cooling away by chopping down its trees and pouring concrete everywhere.

Since 2001, India has cut down forest bigger than the entire state of Mizoram. Trees do two things for a city. They give shade, and their leaves release water into the air. Strip those trees away and an Indian city runs 1 to 4°C hotter than the villages right next to it.

Stack ACs on top. India has bought 5 crore air conditioners in just the last five years. But only about 10 out of every 100 Indian homes own one. The other 90 step out into streets that the rich neighbourhoods are heating further with their AC exhaust. Two days ago, all this cooling pushed our power grid to a record. ACs alone now eat as much electricity every evening as 30 big coal plants produce.

In 2024, Indian hospitals saw 40,000 heatstroke cases. The official government count of heat deaths was 110. Across the world, heat deaths are normally 20 to 30 percent of heatstroke cases. That means 8,000 to 12,000 Indians likely died from heat last summer and were never counted. A 2024 study in the journal Environment International estimates the real number is closer to 1.5 lakh deaths every Indian summer.

The Lancet's India report says we lost almost 12 lakh crore rupees in wages to heat in 2023 alone. Farmers and daily-wage labourers lost most of it. They are the ones standing under the sun while the rest of us complain about heat on Twitter from cooled rooms.

Of 37 heat action plans the government has written for our cities and states, only 2 even bothered to map who to protect first. Only 3 had real funding behind them. The rest are PDFs that sit in drawers.

The map shows India is the hottest country on Earth right now. Some of that is bad luck. A lot of it is what we cut down, what we covered in concrete, and what we never bothered to count.

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

@ErikaMorris79 It's also because a while back he liked a woman's photo & then retracted saying it was an algo mistake. He himself is creating this image of being a saint! It's very normal to go like someone's photos & your partner needs to be secure that he's not gonna DM them & cheat!

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

@ABsay_ek Abhishek Nayar believes a lot in his ability. He was the one who got him in the team and has been trying to give him chances. With him heading now, I see a good future. Also, some players take time to get ready for the big stage. Koyle jal kar hi sholay bante hain.

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

@Vikas662005 Where did he pick these players?

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

@ABsay_ek Such beautiful stories you've got Abhishek. Keep them going!

[द लॉर्डशिप - TheLodship @TheLodship]

Finalising things at the last minute again. This is what happens when the ICC thinks the world runs at its whims and fancies instead of planning properly.

[Behram Qazi 🇵🇰 🇨🇦 @DeafMango]

Insane lineup if the year was 1999