Ananth Krishnan

Director at The Hindu Group. Author, India’s China Challenge. Connect with me on Substack, where I write The India China Newsletter.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 João Neves: “I saw only one team on the pitch, to be honest”.

[Kisa Ed 🤨 @KisaEd]

They wasted time and then are suprised when their time is up?

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Arsenal created just 0.01(xG) between 45+6’ and 120’

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

24.7% - Arsenal’s possession average (24.7%) was the lowest by a team in a UEFA Champions League final on record (since 2003-04), as well as their lowest in any match under Mikel Arteta where they had 11 men on the pitch throughout. Reactive.

[Ananth Krishnan @ananthkrishnan]

A good initiative: India’s new Ambassador to China @VDoraiswami speaking in Mandarin introduces the Indian Embassy and its services. A snippet of the video that’s up on Chinese social media

[TCA Sharad Raghavan @SharadRaghavan]

This meant the capital account surplus was just not enough to balance the CAD -- way more dollars were flowing out than were coming in.

Which is why the govt wants you to cut fuel usage and gold purchases, as both impact imports.

For more details: https://t.co/RRy0ApSweK

[TCA Sharad Raghavan @SharadRaghavan]

If you're wondering why the government and RBI are suddenly concerned about your fuel spending and gold purchases, the RBI annual report released today has the answer:

A short thread 👇

[Bloomberg @business]

China and India discussed marking out the disputed border and trans-border rivers, key sticking points in ties, in the latest sign that the neighbors are continuing their efforts to stabilize relations https://t.co/ysWf6seGk5

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

The El Niño weather system developing in the Pacific Ocean is sending alarm bells across meteorological departments around the world. From its impact on monsoons and crop output to food prices and inflation, this video looks at what a possible Super El Niño in 2026 could mean for India. Should we brace ourselves for something really bad this year?

@bharatkk takes a look in this episode of Business Matters.

https://t.co/eLzNYnQWzU

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

The Ranji Trophy produces pitches that are mandated to have 4mm grass, which benefits fast and swing bowlers for longer periods, but spinners become underutilised. As a result, batters are not getting enough practice against spinners, says @vidyutshiv while talking to @kcvblr

#IPL2026 #spinners #cricket

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

In today’s episode, we look at the ED raids linked to former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the latest developments in the Karnataka leadership shuffle, the Supreme Court upholding the SIR process, Byju’s founder being sentenced in a contempt case, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s remarks on Pakistan’s mediation role. We also track the latest AIADMK developments in Tamil Nadu, The Hindu Roundup, and our editorial segment, "Bad Fences, on Marco Rubio’s India visit."

https://t.co/nE55da9ezA

[Siddarth K.M. (சித்தார்த் கோ.மு.) @Sidzepp]

On April 27, every single one of the world’s 50 hottest cities was in India. We see videos of birds dropping unconscious from the sky!

When we need urgent climate action, what we get is this timeless advice: “Stay hydrated.”

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Suresh Nambath @nambath]

CBSE has harmed a significant proportion of some 18 lakh students who took the Class 12 exams this year and whose answer scripts were evaluated through On Screen Marking (OSM) for the first time. Editorial @the_hindu https://t.co/0XdFyBQHkq . https://t.co/oriymRBXQX

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

If upgradation to leaders' summit was a big indicator of Quad's importance, as we were all told repeatedly by think-tankers, not having a summit automatically means a downgrade in strategic and political significance.

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Uncertainty persists over the next Quad Leaders’ Summit, with officials unable to finalise schedules, raising concerns that the grouping may shift to a lower-level or sidelines format.

✍️@janusmyth, @suhasinih
https://t.co/coz0ac3JBF

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Correct headline
#FuelPricesHike

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

These headlines are both form today.

🇮🇱: Says
🇷🇺: Threatens

[The Hindu-Hyderabad @THHyderabad]

Surgeon in #Wuhan, patient in #Hyderabad: How a robotic surgery unfolded in real time

@The_SidSingh
https://t.co/K7kt2qGSvW

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Petrol and diesel prices have been raised four times in two weeks. They are likely to go up further, along with food and overall inflation. The war Israel and the U.S., both India’s close partners, have launched in India’s neighbourhood is having a direct crushing effect on the lives of millions of Indians.

I don’t know whether this is an era of war or not. But this particular war is certainly hurting India and its rise. If India doesn’t speak for its own interests and speak out against policies that hurt its interests and the well-being of its people, nobody else will.