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India hits green milestone early but still coal-reliant & Diljit Dosanjh film ‘Sardaar Ji 3’ faces blocks

Global media also questions findings of the Air India crash investigation and reports on a Russian woman found living in a cave in Gokarna with her 2 daughters.

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New Delhi: India has reached its Paris Agreement target of 50 percent of non-fossil fuel power capacity five years ahead of its 2030 pledge, even as it remains heavily reliant on coal for power generation, report John Reed and Rachel Millard in Financial Times.

The report highlighted the gap between installed capacity and power generation, noting that “officials acknowledge India has much work ahead in integrating installed capacity into the country’s existing grid”.

“Many state utilities are under financial duress and continue to opt for coal as a steadier source of power than renewables such as solar,” says the report.

FT also delved into the preliminary findings of the Air India crash investigation, noting that unlike other countries, India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau in its probe report did not identify the pilots speaking or directly quote from their conversation regarding the shutting of the fuel controls to the engines.

“The report is very murky and very inexact,” Bjorn Fehrm, an aerospace engineer and analyst at aviation consultancy Leeham News and Analysis, is quoted as saying. “It’s not good for the airline.”

Diljit Dosanjh occupies a peculiar space in India’s pop-culture landscape. He’s a massive star with a devoted fanbase, but his latest film, Sardaar Ji 3, hasn’t been released in India because it also features Pakistani actress Hania Aamir, reports Viren Naidu in The Guardian.

The report adds that the Indian government had mandated the removal of all digital content originating from Pakistan post the Pahalgam attack.

Sardaar Ji 3 was filmed in the UK in February 2025, well before the attack, but the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) – a film industry workers’ union – urged India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to deny the film a release certificate on the basis of Aamir’s nationality,” it says.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap argues that the outrage surrounding the presence of a Pakistani actor is a smokescreen, adds the report.

“It’s not about her presence – it’s about ideology. Anything that challenges the majority’s narrative is blocked. The refusal to release Sardaar Ji 3 sends a clear message, he says. The bigger the financial loss, the more afraid people will be to dabble in non-populist storytelling,” according to the report.

The New York Times reports on the Russian woman, Nina Kutina, who was found living in a cave akin to “heaven” in Gokarna with her two daughters. She had first arrived in India nine years ago.

“In Goa, Ms. Kutina worked as a tutor of Russian language and literature. She had made the roughly three-hour trip from Goa to Gokarna—a town of about 20,000 people locally known for its temples and beauty—multiple times in the past, said Mr. Narayana, the police superintendent who provided the details of her travels. She had stayed in the cave at least four times,” the report notes.

The Economist reports how Trump’s second term as US President has left India’s typically unshakable political and business elites feeling “off-kilter”, as they confront a new wave of uncertainty.

Trump’s overtures to Pakistan’s military chief following Operation Sindoor—India’s response to the Pahalgam attack—and his silence on China’s backing of Pakistan during the conflict have unsettled “the notion that America and China are locked in an ideological and economic contest that is sure to endure for decades”.

“Indian elites are unsure how heavily China, and the need to contain its rise, weighs on Mr Trump in his second term. India finds itself in a very difficult spot, says a policy type in Delhi. In his telling, his country never really intended to take big risks in confronting and challenging China, a country with an economy five times the size of India’s and much stronger armed forces to boot. Rather, it was delighted to fan the American fantasies that India might push back against China,” reads the article.

(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)


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