Krishna

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

"These are the moments I still play tennis for."

We're so happy you still do, @DjokerNole.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

⋅ How does using E20 petrol impact mileage?
⋅ Does E20 damage engines?
⋅ Is E20 safer for older vehicles?
⋅ Should E0 and E 10 petrol also be sold?
Why the outcry over E20 petrol?
Auto expert Hormazd Sorabjee and FADA CEO Saharsh Damani separate fact from fiction.

#Ethanol #ITVideo #Fuel #NewsToday |
@SardesaiRajdeep @hormazdsorabjee @saharshd

[Mahavir Chopra / Beshak.org @themahavir]

It’s okay to look “stupid” in a hospital.

I recently lost my nephew. He was just 35.

Around 2 AM, he felt chest pain.
He assumed it was acidity and waited. He didn’t go to the hospital until 6 AM.

While the doctor was telling his father he’d had a minor attack at 2 AM, he suffered two more attacks, back to back, and passed away.

I’ve been there too. I’ve gone in with chest pain and it turned out to be acidity. Sometimes the look you get makes you feel like you’re wasting their time, sitting in casualty.

But I’d rather look foolish for an hour than have my family lose me forever.

Don’t guess work with symptoms.
If something feels off, get it checked.

And get regular health checkups, especially after 30/35 (I used to say 40 earlier ☹️)

[Krishna @Indian_2025]

@mpkkamal @HYDTP What if the driver has to apply brakes suddenly ?

[Krishna @Indian_2025]

This Father’s Day, don’t be like this father !! @HYDTP

This is at DGQA Office, Karkhana road at 12:30 pm on 21 June 2026

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: Brent crude slips to $79.33 a barrel. When crude rises, consumers are told fuel prices must go up. When crude falls, will petrol and diesel prices come down too? Or is the middle class destined to be the government’s favourite revenue source? 🤔

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I was surprised when Jeremy Clarkson texted me on Boxing Day to say how much he liked my @paddypower ad urging men to get tested for prostate cancer. Now I understand.
I wish my old sparring partner all the best with his treatment. Guys, have a PSA test, it may save your life.

[Krishna @Indian_2025]

@narendramodi It’s only the middle class (salaried class) that is bearing the brunt of income tax. Why don’t we deserve similar deductions / exemptions as offered to farmers, businessmen ? Why does the govt. give preferential tax breaks to others and not to salaried class ?

[Sangeetha(RewriteYourStory) @saaiyer]

I dont know if you guys have notices. All the soda water (carbonated water) coming in pet plastic bottles is absolutely useless. The quality has degraded over time. Whether its bisleri, Kinley or whatever pet bottle brand.

The ones that are slightly expensive and come in cans are better.

[Krishna @Indian_2025]

@drmsecunderabad @RailwaySeva @srdom_sc And ? What is the outcome ?

[Krishna @Indian_2025]

Shame on @SCRailwayIndia @RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw Train no. 12025and consequently 12026 are today delayed by over 8.5 hours. what about people who depend on timely service to meet personal and professional commitment? @PMOIndia @narendramodi should answer.

[Jyoti @virgojyoti02]

E100 is a bad idea. Not because ethanol is bad. But because this is not how you do it.

Brazil is the only country in the world that has made ethanol fuel actually work at scale.

They started in 1975. It took them thirty years. And the order in which they did it matters. First they built the cars. Millions of them, flex-fuel vehicles that could handle ethanol. The fuel infrastructure came after, once the demand was already sitting in driveways across São Paulo and Rio. By the time Brazilians were filling up on pure ethanol, they had spent decades building the engine technology, the pump network, the supply chain, and the price stability to make it viable. Even then it had rough patches.

India has done it the other way around.
We announced the fuel before the cars exist. The flex-fuel fleet right now is one Wagon R and some Hero bikes. That is not a fleet.
That is a pilot project dressed up as a policy.

This is not just it, other issue are:

Ethanol in India comes mostly from sugarcane. And sugarcane is one of the thirstiest crops we grow. It needs four to five times more water than most other crops. In Maharashtra, which is our biggest sugarcane state, that has always been a tension that everyone quietly lives with.

Now go to Vidarbha. This is the eastern part of Maharashtra. Cotton country. Drought country. The region where farmer suicides made headlines for years because the rains failed and the debt did not. Water here is not a policy question. It is a survival question. A farmer in Yavatmal or Wardha will tell you that a bad monsoon does not mean a bad harvest. It means a bad year for everything.

Sugarcane is already creeping into this region because the ethanol push has made it more profitable than cotton. And if E100 scales the way the government wants it to, that pressure gets stronger. More farmers in water-scarce land will shift to a crop that drinks water like it is free. The ones who can afford a borewell will go deeper. The ones who cannot will watch their neighbours do it and worry.

Nobody in the E100 announcement talked about this.

The government will say farmers should be free to grow what is profitable. That is fair. But policy that makes one choice significantly more profitable than another is not neutral. It is a nudge. And nudging water-stressed farmers in Vidarbha toward sugarcane is a nudge with consequences that will show up not in a press conference but in a groundwater report five years from now.

Then there is the trust problem sitting on top of all of this. Last April, E20 replaced regular petrol at 90,000 pumps without much warning. Mileage dropped. Repairs came up. A man in Chennai spent close to ₹4 lakh on fuel-related damage. The government's response was essentially that people were spreading misinformation. That is not how you bring people along.

So now E100 arrives and people are not starting from neutral. They are starting from angry.

Here is what would have actually made sense.

Pick three or four cities. Pune, Lucknow, Coimbatore, one more. Build a proper E100 pilot there. Put the pumps in. Work with one or two carmakers to get a few thousand flex-fuel vehicles on the road in those cities. Run it for two years. Measure the mileage honestly. Publish the cost per kilometre in plain numbers. Let a family in Pune tell their cousin in Nagpur that their monthly fuel bill actually went down. That cousin will want in.

That is how Brazil did it. That is how you build a market.

Instead we have a national announcement, a handful of cars, almost no pumps, unresolved water questions, unhappy farmers in the wrong regions growing the wrong crop for the wrong reasons, and a public that has already been burned once and is not in a mood to be told to trust the process again.

E100 could have been a good story. Grow your own fuel, keep the money at home, give farmers a second income, reduce the import bill. All of that is real and worth doing.

But a good idea launched badly does not stay a good idea for long.

It just becomes the next thing people are angry about.

[Tehseen Poonawalla Official 🇮🇳 @tehseenp]

Most Indian vehicles aren’t even E20 compatible ..yet Nitin Gadkari ji is forcing 100% ethanol norms on us!

We the people pay full price for our vehicles + we pay road taxes, insurance, tolls, GST on vehicles, parking, GST on spares, basically or lot of money for everything that one can think of! And yet in return we get Pathetic roads, mostly terrible infrastructure, traffic jams and now fuel that destroys the engines and kills mileage of our vehicles!

Meanwhile we all know that most sugar mills owned by netas & their families and it is their linked companies that are minting crores from ethanol distilleries.

Let's cut out the BS, this is a straight-up Ethanol Scam! And while we INDIANs have to pay a price & yet suffer, these netas profit and make money! Also say if one wants non blended fuel instead of this nonsensical E-20, E-30 or E-100 why can't we be given that?
#EthanolScam #GadkariEthanol #MiddleClassLoot

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

A policy affecting 140 crore people; signed at 8PM, announced at a press conference the next morning.

No White Paper. No Parliamentary debate. No public consultation. No independent impact study.

Just a minister, a pen, and a family business waiting on the other side.

Let’s talk about what this “policy” actually is:

→ Son Nikhil’s company Cian Agro: ₹18Cr → ₹523Cr revenue in one year

→ Their stock: ₹37 → ₹638. A 2,184% surge; while “the file” was being drafted

→ Son Sarang: Director at Manas Agro. Also in ethanol. Also quietly booming.

Father writes the regulations. Sons hold the equity.

And we’re supposed to call this a “national dream.”

In any functioning democracy, a minister with direct family financial interests in a sector CANNOT unilaterally regulate that sector.

That’s not politics, that’s a constitutional principle.

Where is the Lokpal?
Where is the Prime Minister?
Where is the Parliament?

The dream isn’t about ethanol.

The dream is about a country where accountability has been fully, quietly, abolished.

[Krishna @Indian_2025]

@amaronofficial has the worst customer care experience.. have raised several complaints regarding UPS, yet no one has attended to the issue so far.

[SparkedByData @AnkitAKW]

You literally showed how torture looks like. It's been more than 2 hours since the power cut and power at midnight doesn't explain anything when it's not raining too.
Horrible you are @tgspdcl

[Abhinav A. Bindra OLY @Abhinav_Bindra]

Heartbroken to hear about Jaspal Rana’s passing.

Jaspal was my teammate, and in many ways, part of a generation that helped shape Indian shooting. He was intense, gifted, and carried the pride of the country every time he stepped onto the range.

This is a huge loss for our sport. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, students and everyone whose life he touched.

[Tathagata Roy @tathagata2]

I don’t care about the rest. But Saayoni Ghosh, TMC MP, posted a meme showing a condom being put on a shivling. It shook me to my innermost being. I had filed a police complaint against her at Rabindra Sarobar PS, Kolkata - predictably with no results. Then she sung a song as part of TMC’s election campaign, which said she had the Kaaba in her eyes, Madina in her heart.

For Lord Shiva’s sake, do not have anything to do with her. @narendramodi @AmitShah @BJP4India

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I fact-checked India's 2014 vs 2026 infrastructure numbers, added some more important parameters that were missed and an extremely important data point, the target.

Because some of this growth would have happened anyway. The question is whether India beat, met, or missed its own or global benchmarks.

So, I have compiled 48 parameters in total and every number is from PIB, IBEF, the Economic Survey and ministry dashboards.

Wherever the government did not set explicit targets, I benchmarked it against China.

Some targets beaten. Some missed. Every data point is verified.

Full data below.

[Azhar Jafri @zhr_jafri]

Relief only for foreigners ? What mistake have Indians done madam 🥹