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A rights group has documented at least 125 deaths in sewers, septic tanks and confined spaces across 20 states and Union Territories this year, calling them foreseeable failures of enforcement and mechanisation, not accidents.
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A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari has given the State four weeks to report which caste appellations on streets, roads and localities have been removed, and which still remain, nearly five decades after a 1978 order first demanded it.
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The High Court has done what successive governments promised in 1978 and never finished. The State's status report must be honest, public and followed by a deadline.
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Periyar left the Congress in 1925 and led a movement that asked for more than jobs and seats. For a decade it worked alongside the Justice Party, and in the end it took the party over.
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