Tag: Environmental Prize

Prafulla at the National Green Tribunal, Delhi
Rethink 'corporate-friendly' policy, Green Nobel winner Samantara to PM

Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Prafulla Samantara, the recipient from Asia of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize and the face of a determined people’s resistance against bauxite mining in an Odisha forest, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “rethink” his corporate-friendly policies. The activist led a historic 12-year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria-Kondh’s land rights and […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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