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"It's not been our finest 24 hours in government," one senior figure in government acknowledged to me, after mudslinging one way and another, some in public, plenty more in private.

“We acknowledge the severity of these charges and as a company will hold all our employees to the highest ethical standards,” the company said.

"Creating a monument like this is acknowledging the trauma caused by the looting of those spiritual artefacts," he told the BBC.

Yet she acknowledges that caste has already been politicised through welfare and electoral strategies, making a caste census inevitable.

Collins acknowledged that job growth has slowed, but noted that the unemployment rate has remained relatively low—at least through August, the most recent month of official data published before the government shutdown began.