The phone has a dedicated SOS button, built-in parental controls, a removable battery and two screens.

Family Assist app

The Family Assist app is available on Google Play and the App Store. Relatives can use it to configure the phone over SMS, so the handset does not need a data plan.

They can add contacts, set reminders, change the volume and edit SOS settings. A family member can also update a doctor’s number from their own phone.

SOS button

Pressing and holding the SOS button for three seconds places a call to a preset number and sends a text message to up to five emergency contacts. Family members choose the contacts and the message in the app.

Parental controls

The controls are locked with a Family PIN and can be changed on the phone without the app. School Mode limits the phone by time of day and allows only emergency calls.

Parents can restrict calls and texts to approved contacts. They can also block apps, including the camera and games.

Screens and design

The main display measures 2.8 inches and shows large menu icons and text. A 1.77-inch outer screen shows who is calling, so users do not have to open the phone. The phone also has a loudspeaker.

Battery and colors

The phone has a removable 1,450 mAh battery. It comes in charcoal, burgundy red and teal.

Carbon arrives about two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. Google says it is better at finding and fixing software flaws, and at long engineering jobs that can run for days.

Google is working with the U.S. government on voluntary testing before release. It plans to add trusted partners through its Fairwind Program, then open the model to developers, businesses and consumers through its products. No dates were given.

Price

Carbon costs the same as Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, or about Rs 191 and Rs 953. Cached input tokens are 95% cheaper.

How it scored

Google reported these results:

• SEC-bench Pro: 88.2% for Carbon, a test of finding vulnerabilities. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon scored about 85% and 83%.
• ExploitGym: 54.8%, a test of confirming that a flaw can be exploited. GPT-6 Astra scored 42.4%.
• CWE-bench: 71.0%, a test of fixing the root cause of a flaw. Carbon beat Grok 4.7, Argon and GPT-6 Astra.
• Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0: first place, with 59.

Google’s own testing showed Carbon more than doubling Argon’s success rate at writing secure code. The company said its Chrome team found Carbon more than 10 times better than a rival model at producing quality security patches.

Wiz, Google’s cloud security platform, said Carbon beat other AI models on web penetration testing benchmarks.

Safety

Google said Carbon makes about half as many unsupported claims as Argon. In a test of prompt injection, where hidden text tries to take control of an AI model, no attacks succeeded against Carbon. Argon was breached 0.7% of the time, according to Gray Swan’s benchmark.

According to industry sales data, Maruti Suzuki continued to dominate the market, while Tata Motors strengthened its position and became the second-largest carmaker in India for the month.

Top 10 Best-Selling Cars in India (May 2026)

Key Highlights

Dzire Defies SUV Trend

The Maruti Suzuki Dzire became India’s highest-selling car in May 2026 with 24,546 units sold, recording a healthy 36% year-on-year growth. This achievement is significant because the Indian market has increasingly shifted towards SUVs in recent years.

SUVs Rule the Market

Out of the Top 25 best-selling vehicles, 16 were SUVs. Popular models such as Tata Punch, Tata Nexon, Mahindra Scorpio, Hyundai Creta, Kia Seltos, and Toyota Hyryder continued attracting buyers across different price segments.

Tata’s Strong Performance

Tata Punch and Tata Nexon secured fourth and fifth positions respectively. Both models posted impressive year-on-year growth, highlighting Tata Motors’ growing influence in India’s SUV segment.

Brand Performance Snapshot

Brand Presence in the Top 25 Best-Selling Models

Among the top 25 best-selling models, Maruti Suzuki led with 10 vehicles, giving it the broadest representation across the list. Mahindra secured 5 spots, demonstrating a strong presence driven entirely by its SUV lineup.

Tata Motors featured 3 models, with the Punch and Nexon continuing to reinforce the brand’s dominance in the compact SUV segment. Meanwhile, Hyundai, Kia, and Toyota each placed 2 models in the top 25, largely supported by the sustained popularity of their SUV offerings.

Why It Matters

The May 2026 sales figures reveal three major trends shaping the Indian automobile industry:

• SUVs continue to dominate buyer preferences.
• Maruti Suzuki remains the market leader with over 43% share.
• Tata Motors is rapidly closing the gap on competitors through its strong SUV lineup.

With overall passenger vehicle sales growing by around 26% year-on-year, the Indian auto industry is showing strong momentum as it heads into the second half of 2026.

So Vedant did what any student is supposed to do. He contacted CBSE through official channels, multiple email IDs, helpline numbers and contact details listed on the board’s own website. He wrote to them. He called. He waited.

CBSE went completely silent. Not a single acknowledgement. Not one email reply. Not one callback. Every official channel failed him.

Exhausted and with his future on the line, Vedant did the only thing left. On May 23, 2026, he posted on X (formerly Twitter), sharing images of the mismatched answer sheet with the caption: “not my answer sheet.”

How Vedant’s fight unfolded, let’s understand it step by step

1. Requested a scanned copy of the Physics answer sheet via CBSE’s official re-evaluation process, and he paid the prescribed fee. Followed the process correctly.

2. Received a scanned copy, but it was someone else’s answer sheet. Handwriting, structure and style are completely different from his own.

3. Contacted CBSE via multiple official email IDs, helpline numbers and contact details; CBSE did not reply. Not once.

4. With no official response, posted publicly on X on May 23, 2026. His post went viral. Thousands of students and parents piled on with similar complaints.

5. CBSE responded, but only after the internet forced their hand (May 25): “Dear Vedant… the correct copy of your answer book has been sent to your registered email address.”

The board that had ignored every official complaint treated the matter as a “top priority” the moment it went viral. A dedicated CBSE team was reportedly deployed to monitor social media complaints, a unit that apparently did not exist to handle the same complaints through official channels.

The trolling that followed

When Vedant’s post exploded online, not everyone offered support. Because his newly created X account displayed “South Asia” as his location, a default technical glitch during account setup, sections of the internet accused him of being Pakistani and of deliberately trying to tarnish CBSE’s reputation. The 17-year-old, who had done nothing but fight for his own answer sheet through legitimate means, found himself subjected to targeted harassment and abuse.

Vedant’s brother Siddhant Srivastava eventually hit back on social media, posting a family photograph with the message: “Rajma chawal after such a hectic day. Big thanks to all who supported us… and we are not Pakistani.” The family was vindicated when CBSE formally acknowledged the mapping error in its On-Screen Marking system.

A student who discovered a systemic failure in India’s national examination board attempted every official remedy, was ignored, went public, was trolled as a foreign agent, and was ultimately proven completely right. This is the story of CBSE’s 2026 digital overhaul.

Coempt EduTeck Private Limited

Formerly Known As: Globarena Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Particulars	Details
Company Name	Coempt EduTeck Private Limited
Former Name	Globarena Technology Pvt. Ltd.
CIN	U72200TG2000PTC034224
Registration Number	34224
Incorporated	2000 (as Globarena Technology Pvt. Ltd.)
Company Type	Private Limited Company
Industry	Education Technology / Digital Assessment Solutions
Head Office Address	Plot No. 8-3-224/4/C, F-28, Madhuranagar, Yousufguda, Hyderabad, Telangana – 500038
Official Website	www.coempt.in
Official Email	accounts@coempt.in
Employee Strength	51-200 employees
Flagship Product	OnMark OSM Platform
Core Services	Online Examination Systems, On-Screen Marking (OSM), Digital Evaluation Solutions, Assessment Technology
Board of Directors	Information not publicly specified in the provided details

This is the company that currently manages the digital backbone of CBSE’s national examination evaluation system – handling the scanned answer scripts of over 18.5 lakh students across India. Despite this extraordinary responsibility, CBSE has never publicly named or confirmed Coempt EduTeck as its vendor. The connection was uncovered by a 19-year-old hacker probing the portal’s code.

The company describes itself on its website as a provider of “end-to-end examination solutions” with “20+ years of experience in providing technology solutions in the education sector.” The flagship product, OnMark, is what powers CBSE’s OSM system. What the website does not mention is the company’s previous incarnation, Globarena Technology, and the disasters that name carried.

A trail that should have disqualified them

2019: Telangana Intermediate Board Disaster

Operating as Globarena Technology, the company was linked to catastrophic result errors in the Telangana Intermediate Board examinations. Mass result anomalies caused devastating mental trauma among students and their families. Twenty-three students are reported to have died by suicide in the aftermath. The company was questioned over its execution and subcontracting practices. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi later alleged that errors in the on-screen marking system directly contributed to these deaths.

Post-2019: CHSE Odisha Plus II

The company surfaced again in scrutiny over the CHSE Odisha Plus II digital e-evaluation project, drawing further questions about its technical capabilities, execution standards and reliance on subcontracting.

Rebranding, Globarena becomes Coempt EduTeck

Globarena Technology Pvt. Ltd. was rebranded as Coempt EduTeck Private Limited. The corporate identity changed; the directors, the address, the products and, critics now allege, the underlying problems did not.

2026: CBSE Class 12 National Fiasco

Now holding the CBSE contract, Coempt EduTeck’s OnMark platform is at the centre of swapped answer sheets, a portal with hardcoded master passwords accessible to anyone, and a system whose security a teenager broke in under an hour. 18.5 lakh students are caught in the crossfire.

The teenager who cracked the portal open

Nisarga Adhikary, a 19-year-old Class 12 student and ethical hacker from Bengaluru, began examining CBSE’s OSM portal out of pure curiosity after its launch in February 2026. Within 30 minutes, he had identified a cluster of critical security vulnerabilities.

Adhikary alleged the portal contained a hardcoded “master password”, the literal password string, not a hash or encrypted token embedded inside publicly accessible frontend JavaScript files. He claimed this allowed anyone to bypass the portal’s OTP and authentication systems entirely. By editing values in a browser’s DevTools, he said, anyone could impersonate examiners, reset passwords, access other students’ evaluation records, and alter marks.

“It took me less than an hour to find all the vulnerabilities inside the system. Anyone can impersonate any examiner to their choice. The access control is totally broken. I could change the marks. There is no OTP security; anyone can change the password. None of this required sophisticated exploitation. The hardest part was reading a JavaScript file and editing a couple of values in DevTools.” mentions Nisarga Adhikary, 19-year-old ethical hacker and Class 12 student

Adhikary had reported his findings to CERT-In, India’s national cybersecurity authority, months earlier, in February 2026. His warnings were largely ignored in official corridors, just as Vedant’s complaints were ignored by CBSE. The findings remained confined to niche cybersecurity circles until Adhikary published his blog post and it went viral on X on May 25, 2026. The portal was taken offline for three days, but when it returned, only one of the reported vulnerabilities had been fixed.

The political earthquake

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi entered the fray with a direct attack on the Modi government, calling the situation a “calculated conspiracy” that has compromised the futures of lakhs of students. He demanded an independent judicial inquiry and the formation of a Special Investigation Team to probe the matter.

Gandhi explicitly connected Coempt EduTeck to the 2019 Telangana Globarena disaster, questioned why the company received the CBSE contract despite its documented track record, and alleged the absence of any meaningful background check. He questioned the company’s relationship with the ruling government. The accusations ignited a fierce political battle over who approved the contract, on what terms, and why CBSE has never publicly disclosed the vendor’s identity.

The students caught in the middle

Vedant’s case was not isolated. Once his post went viral on May 23, thousands of students poured onto social media with their own complaints. The scale of the grievances painted a picture of widespread system failure, not a one-off glitch.

Swapped sheets. Multiple students alleged receiving answer books that did not belong to them, different handwriting, different structure, and different subject content.

Portal failures Students reported persistent portal crashes, payment gateway errors and delayed access to their own scanned answer sheets, for which they had paid a fee.

Blurred scans Several students alleged their scanned copies were so blurred and poor in quality as to be useless for verification purposes.

Mark discrepancies Others raised concerns about marks that did not tally with what they had written, answers left unchecked, totalling errors, and sudden mark variations after re-evaluation requests.

May 23: Date Vedant posted on X, after being ignored by CBSE

May 25: Date CBSE responded, only after viral public pressure

Feb ’26 When CERT-In was alerted about OSM portal vulnerabilities, months before the scandal

CBSE’s wall of silence

CBSE has denied the OSM portal was breached, calling the allegations “erroneous, misleading and not based on facts.” The board has not publicly confirmed Coempt EduTeck as its vendor. No public statement has been issued clarifying whether Vedant’s case, and the similar cases emerging, represent isolated glitches or a systemic failure in the platform.

Coempt EduTeck did not respond to media queries. Its directors, Sowmyanarayanan Sadagopan, Radhakrishnan Jayaraman, Anantha Madabhushini Chary, Venkatanarayana Aleti and Suryanarayana Vuyyuri Raju, have made no public statement. The company’s contact email, accounts@coempt.in, has received no publicly acknowledged response.

 The central irony of this entire crisis: the only institution in this story that was willing to communicate, to warn, to flag, to raise an alarm, was a 19-year-old student. Every adult institution in the chain, CBSE, Coempt EduTeck, CERT-In, stayed silent until the internet forced otherwise.

Questions that demand answers

Contract Transparency How was Coempt EduTeck, formerly Globarena Technology, with a documented history of examination disasters, awarded the CBSE national evaluation contract without public scrutiny or disclosure?

Due Diligence Did CBSE conduct any background check on the company’s prior track record before handing over the evaluation infrastructure for 18.5 lakh students?

Accountability Why does India’s premier examination board refuse to name the private company running its most sensitive digital infrastructure? Who approved this secrecy?

Student Rights Vedant exhausted every official channel before going public. How many other students with legitimate complaints were similarly ignored and silenced?

Data Privacy One student’s answer sheet reached another student’s email. How many such swaps occurred that were never discovered or reported?

Security If the portal’s security was catastrophically broken since February, as an ethical hacker and CERT-In report showed, what guarantees exist that marks of 18.5 lakh students were not tampered with during the evaluation period?

In less than an hour of browsing the portal’s publicly accessible code, Adhikary says he discovered multiple serious security vulnerabilities – flaws that could allow anyone with basic technical knowledge to log in as an examiner, bypass the OTP verification system, reset passwords without any identity check, and potentially alter students’ marks.

“It was one of the easiest hacks of my life,” Adhikary said. “You don’t even need to know programming. Anyone can impersonate any examiner. The access control is totally broken.”

What Exactly Did He Find?

The most damaging flaw, according to Adhikary, was a “master password” hidden directly inside the portal’s publicly visible JavaScript code – the kind of code that any browser can read. This meant that anyone who found that password could log into the system as any examiner, without needing an OTP or any other verification.

The OTP system itself had a fatal design flaw. Instead of the server verifying the one-time password, the verification was being done inside the user’s own browser. That means anyone who knows how to inspect a webpage could simply read the OTP from the browser and bypass the security check entirely.

Password reset was equally broken. Normally, resetting a password requires entering the old one first. On this portal, Adhikary says, a user could just enter any random old password and set a new one — the server never actually checked.

On top of all this, he claims that examiner identities could be manually changed by editing a few values in the browser’s storage, allowing someone to impersonate a teacher and access their evaluation records.

“None of this required sophisticated exploitation,” Adhikary wrote in a detailed blog post. “The hardest part was reading a JavaScript file and editing a couple of values in DevTools.”

He Reported It. Nobody Responded

What makes this story more troubling is the timeline. Adhikary says he discovered these vulnerabilities on 25 February 2026 – months before the CBSE Class 12 results were announced. He immediately reported the issue to CERT-In, the Indian government’s official cybersecurity response agency, via email.

CERT-In acknowledged his complaint with a standard reply, assigned it a reference number, and went quiet. Despite multiple follow-ups over the next three months, Adhikary received no meaningful response and no confirmation that the flaws had been fixed.

“It is very disrespectful, to be honest. There are companies who charge lakhs of rupees for this kind of security audit, and I am doing it for free just to help them – and they are not responding. That is arrogance and negligence,” he said.

On 22 May 2026, having waited long enough, Adhikary published a full technical write-up on his personal blog, complete with screen recordings and step-by-step demonstrations of the vulnerabilities. The post went viral almost immediately.

The Bigger Picture: Students Already Complaining

Adhikary’s revelations did not come out of nowhere. For weeks before his blog went public, CBSE Class 12 students had been raising complaints on social media about irregularities in the OSM system. Students reported receiving answer sheets with someone else’s handwriting, missing pages, unchecked answers, and sudden unexplained drops in marks.

For many students and parents, the issue was not just about technical glitches but about trust in a system that directly affects college admissions, scholarships and future opportunities.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan took note of the growing uproar and directed CBSE officials to urgently address the portal’s problems, with help from IIT experts and public sector banks. “Student interests remain paramount, and all corrective measures must be undertaken by CBSE on priority,” he said.

CBSE Says the Portal Was Not Hacked

After Adhikary’s blog went viral and the CBSE platforms went down, the board issued a clarification on X (formerly Twitter), denying that its OSM portal was compromised.

CBSE said that the URL Adhikary had investigated – cbse.onmark.co.in – was only a testing site with sample data used for internal review, and had nothing to do with the actual evaluation portal where real student data and marks were stored.

“There are no actual evaluation data, marks or other data held on that portal. The Board emphasises that no security breaches have come to light on the Portal deployed for the actual evaluation work,” CBSE wrote.

Adhikary, however, pushed back. He pointed out that the URL mentioned in CBSE’s post was not even a valid domain and was, in fact, redirecting users to his own blog. He also claimed that he had visual proof showing access to what he described as non-test production data through the portal.

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a digital rights organisation, has since written to the Ministry of Education and CERT-In, urging them to take the disclosure seriously and respond transparently.

Who Is Nisarga Adhikary?

Nisarga Adhikary is a 19-year-old from West Bengal who recently completed his Class 12 exams. He describes himself as a hobbyist cybersecurity researcher who has worked on bug bounty programmes – projects where companies reward researchers for finding and reporting security flaws – for several years. He studied in Delhi for a part of his schooling and has built cybersecurity tools as a self-taught developer.

His interest in the CBSE portal was born out of simple curiosity. He says he had no intention of misusing what he found and chose to report it through the proper official channels first, only going public after months of silence.

Why This Matters

India’s board examinations are among the most high-stakes events in a young person’s life. Marks scored in Class 10 and Class 12 directly influence college admissions, government job eligibility, and scholarship opportunities for millions of students across the country. CBSE oversees more than 33,000 schools in India and abroad.

When a teenager sitting at home can, in under an hour, find ways to potentially access examiner accounts and alter student marks on the very system used to evaluate those exams – and then wait three months for someone in authority to respond – it raises serious questions about how India protects its most critical public digital infrastructure.

As of now, CBSE has not confirmed whether the six high-severity vulnerabilities flagged by Adhikary have been fully fixed. The students who may have been affected by errors in the OSM system are still waiting for answers.

Tesla began its India journey in July 2025 by opening its flagship showroom in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), followed by another outlet in Delhi. The company introduced the imported Model Y SUV as its first offering, bringing vehicles directly from its Shanghai Gigafactory.

In April 2026, Tesla expanded its lineup with the launch of the Model YL, a long-wheelbase six-seater electric SUV designed specifically for markets like India where large family vehicles are highly preferred. The Model YL is priced at around ₹61.99 lakh and targets premium buyers competing against luxury brands such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

Premium Pricing Remains a Challenge

Despite the excitement around Tesla’s arrival, the company faces major challenges in India. The biggest hurdle continues to be the high pricing caused by heavy import duties. Since Tesla cars are currently imported as completely built units (CBUs), prices remain significantly higher compared to markets like the United States and China.

Industry analysts believe this premium pricing limits Tesla’s reach to a niche luxury audience rather than the broader middle-class market that dominates India’s automobile sector.

Manufacturing Still Uncertain

Another major question surrounding Tesla’s India operations is local manufacturing. The Indian government has consistently encouraged global automakers to establish domestic production facilities under the “Make in India” initiative. However, Tesla has so far focused only on expanding sales and service operations.

Recent reports indicate that the company is still evaluating market demand before committing to a large-scale manufacturing plant or Gigafactory in India. Government officials have also acknowledged that Tesla’s immediate focus remains market testing rather than local assembly.

Competition Intensifies in India’s EV Market

Tesla is entering an increasingly competitive EV landscape. Indian automaker Tata Motors currently dominates the domestic EV market with affordable electric vehicles, while global companies like Toyota and Hyundai are aggressively expanding their premium EV portfolios in India.

Experts say Tesla’s success in India will largely depend on how quickly it can localize production and reduce prices for consumers.

Deliveries to Begin in June 2026

Tesla has announced that deliveries of the new six-seater Model YL will begin in June 2026. Meanwhile, EV enthusiasts are closely watching whether the company will expand its Supercharger network beyond major metropolitan cities, as charging infrastructure remains one of the biggest barriers to long-distance EV adoption in India.

For now, Tesla’s India story appears to be centered on luxury mobility rather than mass-market transformation. Whether the company eventually commits to manufacturing in India could determine its long-term impact on the country’s rapidly growing EV sector.