'My appeal to ex-servicemen,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd), 'is please do not demean yourself and bring our izzat down to the levels of militant trade unionism of the banks or airline variety! Please accept a reasonable compromise and fight your battle with the 7th Pay Commission!'
Gujarat and Jharkhand are most favourably placed in terms of smaller share of public sector employees and lower liability on pension, wages and salaries.
The Centre is likely to announce next month a hike in dearness allowance by 10 per cent to 100 per cent, benefiting about 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday indicated that the post of Chief of Defence Staff could be a reality soon, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked defence reforms as a priority and stressed that "jointness at the top" was a need long overdue.
Fitch frowns at government pay hikes.
Rahul was leading a candle light march organised by the Delhi Congress unit from Jantar Mantar to India Gate when police personnel restrained him
Raha said the force has the power to punish its enemy, but a decision on using it in an offensive role will have to be taken by the government.
The new pay scale will come into effect from January 1.
Trade unions said Jaitley's minimum wage announcement is completely inadequate
The recommendations will benefit 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.
The recommendations will benefit 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.
Financial shares were among the top Sensex gainers along with auto and pharma shares.
'You have to do good work and also do good politics.' 'I think that part was missing, communication was an issue, but we have bridged that gap.'
The delay in receiving the revised pension was due to problems in calculation at his bank's end.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will take a final call on whether to break the tradition of presenting a separate Rail Budget, by merging it with the General Budget.
He said the short term macroeconomic priorities of the RBI continue to focus on bringing down inflation towards the government-set target of 4 per cent
The Nifty50 slipped 33 points to close the session at 8,509 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,587.
Whilst politicians promise to uphold the honour and interests of our soldiers, the very opposite is being done, says Karan Thapar.
'The BJP portrays a make believe world.' 'The Tripura victory is being seen by some as a result of bahubal and money power -- but that would be a very simplistic explanation.' 'Money and muscle power can play a role up to a point, but the BJP's victory is remarkable because it replaced a party that was in power for 25 years.'
'We have seen a host of businesses across sectors generate economic value and wealth for investors.'
The monetary authority said it was worried on three fronts with regard to inflation as well as the economy.
'The travesty of recent Indian strategic thought is it emerges not from our brains, but from whatever part of the anatomy that secretes the prickliest hormones,' says Shekhar Gupta.
In Madhya Pradesh, the C-Voter poll projections gave the BJP 107 seats with a vote share of 41.5 per cent, against Congress' vote share of 42.3 per cent and a simple majority of 116 seats.
Prabhu hoped that during this 3-4 years period, railways would be able to absorb the impact from their resources
The finance minister said the economy had been slowing.
Jeet Singh, the constable, talks about how his colleagues in the force work in the absence of medical facilities or pensions.
India's GDP for the three-month period ended September 30 grew 7.4%.
Capex for next year expected to be up 25% to Rs 3 lakh crore
India is not so worried about meeting fiscal deficit target.
'An expanding army, rising salaries due to the 7th pay commission, and raised pensions due to OROP are consuming money at the cost of badly needed bulletproof jackets, rifles, artillery, submarines, warships and fighter aircraft,' notes Ajai Shukla.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday kept the repo rate unchanged 6.50 per cent.
RBI is expected to discuss about the impact of GST in its monetary policy.
Given the developments, analysts do not foresee a quick recovery.
EM asset classes could rally if the pace of US Federal Reserve rate increases moderates.
Thousands of ex-servicemen across the country on Sunday converged at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to protest over the delay in implementation of the 'One Rank, One Pension' scheme.
The Congress vice president asserted that OROP was the right of military personnel and the government "will have to give it".
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of indulging in political exploitation of the sacrifices of soldiers in remarks that come in the wake of cross-LoC surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Dalit leaders ask community members to give up disposing dead cattle to 'send a strong message' to the Gujarat government.
The Left unions want concrete action and not just 'assurances'.
Chetan Ghate, Pami Dua and Ravindra Dholakia have been appointed for 4 years
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