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India News: Watch Goa CM Pramod Sawant speak about the three linear projects and the Mhadei issues.

He has been at the helm of the state for five years.

International Day of the Forests

Activists feel intent of some of proposals was to undermine Regional Plan 2021

The young environmental groups leading India’s new climate activism 15 March 2021 Young environmentalists participate in a climate strike to protest against government inaction on climate change, as part of global demonstrations in the “Fridays for Future” movement, in Delhi on 20 September 2019. K Asif / India Today Group / Getty Images Young environmentalists participate in a climate strike to protest against government inaction on climate change, as...

Young climate activists in India are shaken – but proud they have rattled the powerful Distinct from older movements, their activism is decentralised, collaborative, fluid. But the downside is the lack of safety nets, visible in recent arrests. A young woman at a protest over Amazon wildfires in 2019. | Indranil Mukherjee/AFP On February 14, as the Delhi Police arrested 22-year-old Disha Ravi for her alleged involvement in preparing a Google document that Greta Thunberg tw...

How Goa crib-hopped in smaller numbers in 2020, but without losing its spirit and thrust on social dialogue Across the state, people came together to create life-size Nativity scenes in cribs that were often themed on social issues. In the pandemic, the number of crib-hoppers may have reduced, but the sentiment remained unchanged. Joanna Lobo January 10, 2021 14:06:21 IST ...

A villager gazes at a devastated area.   | Photo Credit: The ‘Save Mollem’ campaign has drawn in everyone from celebrities to politicians, protesting the lack of assessment of the threats posed by three proposed infrastructure projects The dense evergreen and semi-evergreen forests of Mollem at the edge of the Western Ghats, 60 km from Goa’s capital Panaji, support thousands of indigenous people and abound with a huge diversity of wildlife: tigers, leopards, gaur, and over 200 species o...