Tripura govt employees to get 7th pay panel salaries from October 1

Agartala: The government employees in Tripura are set for a for a pay hike according to 7th pay panel salaries from October 1 this year. The recommendations were submitted to the More...

7th Pay Commission: Centre to raise minimum pay to Rs 20,000 ahead of 2019 elections

New Delhi: Central government will raise the minimum pay to Rs 20,000 from current Rs 18,000, which was recommended by the 7th Pay Commission, the finance ministry officials More...

7th Pay Commission: Finance Ministry puts pay hike proposal on hold

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has put on hold a proposal to increase pay for 10 million central government employees and pensioners beyond the recommendations of 7th Commission More...

Govt hikes GPF interest rate to 8% for Oct-Dec quarter

New Delhi: The government has increased the rate of interest for General Provident Fund (GPF) and other related schemes by 0.4 percentage points to 8 per cent for the October-December More...

Leaves, holidays of Odisha officials cancelled after cyclone Titli

Bhubaneshwar: The Odisha government has cancelled all leaves and government holiday of all the officers in the Secretariat and Heads of Departments in view of the relief efforts More...

Protesters prevent females ages 10-50 from entering Sabarimala temple

New Delhi: Sabarimala temple in southern India that is one of the world’s largest Hindu pilgrimage centers opened its doors More...

CVC shares report on top 100 bank frauds with RBI, ED and CBI

New Delhi: Probity watchdog Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has completed a first-of-its-kind analysis of the More...

Suspended Chandigarh police SI booked for raping model

Chandigarh:A suspended Chandigarh Police sub-inspector has been booked for allegedly raping a 25-year-old model from Mumbai,...

Sabarimala temple priests turn back women, defying Supreme Court ruling

New Delhi: Dozens of priests have joined conservative protesters to block women of menstruating age from...

IFS officer’s ancestral house burgled in Bhagalpur

Bhagalpur (Bihar): In a high profile case of theft, Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Raveesh Kumar’s...

A K Rath assumes charge as Bhial Steel Plant CEO

New Delhi: Arun Kumar Rath, CEO of SAIL’s Durgapur Steel Plant, Thursday took charge as the new CEO of More...

DU Professor Bidyut Chakraborty appointed Visva-Bharati VC

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry has appointed Delhi University professor Bidyut Chakraborty as the vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati, official sources said..

D Prasanth Kumar Reddy appointed PS to Vice President

New Delhi: Bureaucrat D Prasanth Kumar Reddy has been appointed as private secretary (PS) to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, according to..

Centre to raise retirement age to 62 years, if BJP wins MP

New Delhi: According to finance ministry sources, BJP’s “morale will be so high” if it wins the Madhya More...

Supreme Court comes to rescue of a schedule caste man, terminated twice by UP govt

New Delhi: In a rare instance, the Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a man belonging to the Scheduled Caste..

Ahead of MP polls, locals oppose caste-based reservation

Bhopal: Ahead of assembly elections in the Madhya Pradesh, residents in Bhopal have registered protest against caste-based reservation by putting up..

Several records missing from IT dept, CIC told

New Delhi: Several records have gone missing from Income Tax department because of a restructuring drive in 2001 and 2013, the..

Two Railways officials suspended in New Farakka Express derailment case

New Delhi: The Indian Railways on Thursday suspended two officials a day after New Farakka express derailed, senior officials said. They..

Parental education linked with increased family health care spending

Washington: Turns out, parents’ education matters more than their income when it comes to their child’s health. The findings of the..