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The tribunal's order is perhaps the first time the courts have recognised the public health costs of fly ash mismanagement in India.
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India’s decision not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in November 2020 has been welcomed in most quarters. The move has been seen as one of rejecting a deal that has been perceived as hurting ‘India’s interests’. It is also seen as one that is in keeping with the recent call for an ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. “When I measure the RCEP Agreement with respect to the interests of all Indians, I do not get a positive answer. Therefore, neither the talisman of Gandhiji nor my own conscience permit me to join RCEP,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said when...