DA was last revised in September last year from 100 per cent of basic pay to 107 per cent.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said a notification banning strikes by government staff, issued in July 2003, would not be renewed after its expiry on July 23.
There were many people who wanted to seek favours from her by offering lakhs and crores of rupees even through her family members when she was Odisha's transport minister. She never allowed any kind of corrupt practices to touch her department officials, family members or the supporters who have stood by her.
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh while presenting the Interim Budget for fiscal 2004-05 in Parliament on Tuesday said 50 per cent of dearness allowance of the pay will be merged with basic salary of central government employees.
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh presents an interim Budget on Tuesday amidst mounting pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party to hike income tax exemption limit to Rs 100,000 and to merge 50% of DA with basic pay of government employees.
Part of the dues has been pending since 1995-96 - the inception year of the Employees' Pension Scheme administered by the EPFO. The Centre also owes the EPFO more than Rs 1,000 crore towards the minimum pension scheme it had notified in September 2014.
Year after year, Malayalam cinema throws stunning surprises at us. 2022 was no exception.
The government is likely to approve on Tuesday a four per cent hike in Dearness Allowance to central government employees and pensioners, which will cost the exchequer Rs 1460 crore (Rs 14.6 billion) in a full year.
IMPPA officials had a closed door meeting with Shalini Thackeray, working president of Maharashtra Navnirman Chitrapat Karmachari Sena, to discuss the issue of release of "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" that hits cinema houses on October 28.
In a bonanza to its employees ahead of the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, the government on Friday decided to merge 50 per cent of dearness allowance with the basic pay
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on Tueday presented the Interim Budget for 2004-05 in the Lok
After careful consideration, the finance ministry appears to have rejected the proposal of merging 50 per cent of dearness allowance with basic salary of government employees and setting up of the Sixth Pay Commission.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your income tax queries.
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Harish Rawat's political one-upmanship weakened the party; nine MLAs who left won on BJP tickets.
Twenty years after the burning of a train in Godhra killed 59 'karsevaks' and triggered one of India's worst post-Partition riots, the poll-scape reflects the yawning gulf between the two communities.
An open letter to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on a few ways to reduce pollution in the city.
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Still full of running in the final minutes at 1-0 up, he provided the cross to Zakaria Aboukhlal who clipped it into the roof of the net to seal the victory as the stadium boiled over.
This season, franchises like the Lucknow Super Giants have revamped their kits while teams like the Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings XI were satisfied with minor modifications.
'Society deals with you the way they do, or forms an opinion, depending on if your family is with you every step of the way.'
About a million railway employees participated in the strike ballot of NFIR. In December, 800,000 employees participated in the strike ballot conducted by another leading union, the All India Railwaymen Federation, with 96 per cent voting in favour of a strike.
"God forbid if they (militants) would have done something. It would not have been possible to have smooth conduct of the elections," Sayeed said.
This is not a train for the regular commuter, evident from the number of large sized bags in the overhead bin, observes IAF Veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Over 8.5 lakh employees, majorly from public sector banks (PSBs), will get a 15 per cent hike in pay, with the conclusion of the 11th Bipartite Wage Negotiations on Wednesday. After three years of intense negotiations, the UFBU, which represents four bank officer associations and five workman unions, and the IBA on July 22 entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for an annual wage hike of 15 per cent.
Once the new rules kick in, you will have less cash-in-hand and may feel tempted to scale back on savings and investments.
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Travel expenses given to members of Parliament have come under the scrutiny of the Delhi high court, which asked the Centre to explain the "rationale" behind such benefits.
Most women are unaware of their exact bra size; they usually go in for an approximation.
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