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Punjab's labour department and the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board are finding it difficult to get the BOCW Act 1996 and related rules translated into Punjabi as demanded by a labour rights activist around 20 months ago.
The so-called Kashmir Liberation Front announced in a poster issued by it that it had planted “time bombs” on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway and warned people not to travel on the highway for nine days. The poster said that if anyone died or was injured in the blasts, the front would not be responsible.
As both CPI(M)-led LDF and Congress-led UDF are opposing the UCC, in all likelihood the resolution will be passed unanimously in the Assembly, where the BJP has no legislator. The CPI(M) and the Congress have already held a series of seminars and conventions as part of their campaigns against the UCC.