7th Pay Commission: In a big relief to the retired government employees, the Central Government has decided to revise the pension of the Ex-servicemen. The government will revise the pension of staffers who retired before 2006.
The DCW on Wednesday urged the Centre and the Delhi government to facilitate free sex-reassignment surgeries for transgenders.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and sought its response on a plea seeking framing of a law for joint parenting of a child in the event of a divorce.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) on a plea for barring political parties from having names with religious connotations and symbols similar to the national flag.
"Public distribution is a fundamental right of state governments. The Union food minister does not understand the repercussions that would follow if such a right is infringed upon," DMK president M K Stalin said in a statement.
The decision was taken by a high-level committee chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and will cater to the needs of those states that have faced floods, landslides, drought, cloudburst and cyclone.
"The central government has approved Rs 949.49-crore assistance to drought-hit Karnataka for Kharif 2018-19 season," Singh tweeted.
Meanwhile, on Monday, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) said there was no reason for it to doubt the Narendra Modi government's intentions on the Ram temple issue.
The Centre told the apex court that a body was recovered on January 24 during the rescue operation and on January 26, the Navy personnel spotted the second body at about 280 feet.
The Home Ministry's statement comes following row over its December 20 notification with the opposition claiming that the government was trying to create a surveillance state.
The government had empowered 10 central probe and snoop agencies for computer interception and analysis under the Information Technology (IT) Act.
Verma's two-year tenure as CBI director ends on January 31. He has moved the top court challenging the Centre's decision.
"The Union Government is pushing the nation into a state of undeclared emergency," he said in a Facebook post.
Under opposition attack, the government on Friday defended its order on monitoring and intercepting any computer by central investigative and security agencies, saying it was a mere repetition of an order of authorisation issued under rules framed during the UPA regime in 2009.
Schools would not ask the students to bring any additional books or materials that could increase their burden of weight, a HRD ministry official said. All the states and UT education departments have been directed on these lines.
The document titled "Details of the steps in the decision making process leading to the award of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft order" stated that the process as laid down in the Defence Procurement Procedure-2013 has been followed in procurement of the Rafale aircraft.
Garg was sarcastic as he mentioned the recent macroeconomic developments -- the performance of rupee, oil and stock markets -- that did not reflect any "wrath".
The NCLT allowed the Union government's interim prayer to reconstitute the board of IL&FS, observing that the company's affairs were being conducted in a manner "prejudicial" to the public interest.
Debt defaults by certain group entities of diversified IL&FS have triggered fears of liquidity crisis in the financial markets and the RBI has been taking steps to improve the overall cash situation.
This will be one-time dispensation for a period of 12 months or complete disposal of 34.88 lakh tonnes of pulses stock, whichever is earlier.
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