More than a million people on Sunday, July 4, 2021, began planting 250 million saplings in India’s most populous state, part of an annual mass tree planting campaign to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of global climate change.

Indian authorities suspended internet services and barred political leaders from entering a northern town on Monday, October 4, 2021, to calm tensions after nine people were killed in a deadly escalation of a yearlong demonstration against contentious agriculture laws.