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First body retrieved in SLBC tunnel accident in Telangana

In a breakthrough, the body of one of the eight trapped workers was brought out in the tunnel boring machine (TBM) at the accident site of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Nagarkurnool district of Telangana, 16 days after the roof collapsed, leaving it waterlogged and filled with slush.

‘Caste census has no sanctity’

The Congress government in Telangana has claimed to have conducted a caste census, and promised to bring a bill to enhance backward classes reservation to 42 per cent.