With the One Rank One Pension scheme for military veterans set to be notified soon, officials of central paramilitary forces, too, may be in for good news soon as the government is to take a final decision on granting of "organised services" status to them.
'I want to ask Modiji is the support price announced by him good enough to make a farmer's sons to start farming in their villages?' 'Can he swear by Bharat Mata and say that is true?'
RBI may go for a 25-basis point cut at its February policy meet.
The April-June quarter GDP slipped to 7 per cent from 7.5 per cent.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government will safeguard interests of soldiers retiring at an early age through higher pensions.
No headway was made on Thursday in resolving sticky issues for OROP implementation during talks between agitating ex-servicemen and government even as two more veterans on indefinite hunger strike were shifted to the army hospital following doctor's advice.
West Bengal and Maharashtra, despite having fewer public sector employees, are likely to face a higher burden of salaries and pensions.
India moving in right direction on GST, says Panagariya.
The strike was supposed to affect about 23 million passengers.
Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore
'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!'
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.
Wednesday's hawkish and essentially courageous decision underscores that Governor Urjit Patel will largely represent continuity, rather than a break, with the policies and approach of his predecessor, says Richard Iley.
Gujarat and Jharkhand are most favourably placed in terms of smaller share of public sector employees and lower liability on pension, wages and salaries.
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.
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.
Trade unions said Jaitley's minimum wage announcement is completely inadequate
Financial shares were among the top Sensex gainers along with auto and pharma shares.
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.
'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.'
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.
'We have seen a host of businesses across sectors generate economic value and wealth for investors.'
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.'
The monetary authority said it was worried on three fronts with regard to inflation as well as the economy.
The finance minister said the economy had been slowing.
Prabhu hoped that during this 3-4 years period, railways would be able to absorb the impact from their resources
India's GDP for the three-month period ended September 30 grew 7.4%.
Jeet Singh, the constable, talks about how his colleagues in the force work in the absence of medical facilities or pensions.
'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.
Capex for next year expected to be up 25% to Rs 3 lakh crore
India is not so worried about meeting fiscal deficit target.
