The hike in pay and pensions would mean an additional expenditure of Rs 20,208 crore per annum to the cash-strapped government which has be...

Assam government employees have begun a two-day protest demanding the re-introduction of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). The employees argue ...

"We increased the old age pension from Rs 300 to Rs 600 and were going to take it further to Rs 1000. But our government was toppled throug...

Earlier last week, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath had announced to bring back the OPS if voted to power in the Assembly polls...

"Why can't the governor pass an order? The government should ask the governor that something must be done. The governor can't sit over the ...

In a letter shot off to the prime minister on August 25 this year, the body argued that if the pensions of the Members of Parliament and Me...

"The way the prime minister had urged people to give up their subsidy on LPG cylinders, he should now appeal to parliament members, state l...

The monthly salary and other allowances paid to MLAs will be increased from the existing ₹55,000 to ₹1.05 lakh, nearly a 100 per cent hike.

Among the allowances the MLAs are entitled to, the constituency allowance got the highest increase -from Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 a month.

The demand for raise in the salary of MLCs to Rs 2.5 lakh came in the Legislative Council while members were speaking during the discussion...

The Delhi government will now send the bill to the Centre and if it is approved, then basic salaries of legislators will rise from current ...

In July, a group of AAP legislators had demanded a significant hike in salary, arguing their earnings were not enough to run their family a...

Shiv Sena said the way ex-servicemen demanding OROP were treated while protesting in Delhi on the eve of Independence Day was "shameful" an...

BJP MLA Suresh Khanna said that the MLA Area Development fund should be hiked, a proposal that all MLAs supported by thumping their desks.

Vijay, a member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, called on Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and conveyed his strong views o...

UP CM Akhilesh Yadav announces a slew of sops, including an increase in pensions and allowances for legislators, on the last day of the Bud...

Members of opposition in the UP Assembly today criticised the policy of discontinuing payment of pensions to former MLAs.