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Environmental watchdog calls it an act of stifling democracy and legitimate dissent

New Delhi | April 11, 2015| Channel 4 today rubbished the Ministry of Home Affairs’ claims, which alleged that Greenpeace had funded the Channel 4 trip to Madhya Pradesh to shoot a documentary on the people’s movement in Mahan.

Greenpeace to continue campaigning on issues fearlessly

Indians step up funding: 77,768 Indians donate Rs 20.76 crore to Greenpeace India in FY 2014 - 15 New Delhi, April 7, 2015: Greenpeace India will challenge the Home Ministry’s action of blocking its foreign funds once again. However,...

New Delhi, 6 April, 2015: Greenpeace India welcomes Prime Minister’s initiative of launching the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) on Monday

Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh| March 30, 2015| The Government’s decision to stop Mahan coal block from mining, saving the forests and livelihoods of thousands was celebrated by villagers from 20 villages at a rally in Amelia village of Singrauli in...

New Delhi | March 20, 2015 | The Ministry of Coal confirmed in a Right to Information [1] reply that the Mahan coal block will not be auctioned, pursuant to the MoEF’s recommendation that it be kept off limits to mining. The move comes as another...

New Delhi| March 12, 2015| In a major embarrassment to the NDA government, the Delhi High Court’s Justice Rajiv Shakder today termed the Ministry of Home Affairs decision to bar Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai from travelling to the UK in...

New Delhi, 10 March, 2015: With Delhi facing existential risk from rising air pollution, Greenpeace along with Centre for Occupational Environment and Health (COEH), met the Delhi Health Minister Shri Satyendra Jain on Tuesday

Greenpeace collated data shows that Delhi has no action plan to protect its citizens from heavy pollution episodes.

New Delhi| February 24, 2015| In an Office Memorandum of the Ministry of the Environment Forests and Climate Change – dated 22nd December 2014 and secured through an RTI request – it is clearly stated that even though the Mahan project has been...

Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh | 20 February, 2015| As government battles it out with Greenpeace on the Priya Pillai offloading case, the NGO won an interim plea against Essar’s attempt to enforce restrictions on Greenpeace at the District Court in...

Court adjourned till tomorrow

Publicising reliable air quality data along with a set of Precautionary Measures are the first steps needed to tackle the issue of air pollution in Delhi

On February 11, media reports surfaced quoting unnamed government officials justifying the travel ban on Greenpeace India’s Priya Pillai on the basis that she was “presenting a negative image of the country” abroad. The unnamed officials said...

New Delhi| February 6, 2015| Hearing Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai’s writ petition on her arbitrary offloading from a London-bound flight on January 11, the Delhi High Court today told the Additional Solicitor General that a different point...

New Delhi | 27 January 2015| Greenpeace activist,Priya Pillai today filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court challenging her illegal and arbitrary offloading at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi.

New Delhi|January 24, 2015| Greenpeace India expressed disappointment at the joint announcement by Prime Minister Modi and President Obama as it didn’t go beyond rhetoric and the usual platitudes.

24th January, 2015, New Delhi: Delhiites have been breathing extremely poor air this winter with PM2.5 averages peaking at 320micrograms/cubic meter, 6 times the Indian safety limits and 14 times that of the WHO's.