If the price of crude oil softens, Indian equities may again see a risk-on phase. Tariff concerns are no longer the central issue; the larg...

The Union government has told the Bombay High Court that Agniveers are different from regular soldiers. This means families of deceased Agn...

Global markets are ignoring geopolitical tensions, focusing instead on robust corporate earnings and the excitement around artificial intel...

Nemin Shah, director, EQX Business Consultancy Private Ltd, told ET Wealth Online that the government has chosen to codify the exemption fo...

The Armed Forces Tribunal has awarded a special family pension to the widow of Wing Commander Durlabh Bhattacharya. He tragically drowned w...

The Pakistan government has cut pension benefits for retired civil and armed forces personnel to control the rising pension bill. The chang...

Sub-rule 13-B of Rule 54 prohibited grant of two family pensions to a person who was already in receipt of Family Pension or was eligible, ...

The MoD had announced that ‘invalid pension’ would now also be given to those military personnel boarded out before completing their 10 yea...

Following this, the Ministry had referred the matter to the Anomaly Committee.

It is the first time that defence pensions have overwhelmed money allocated to modernise the armed forces, with the ministry seeing an 8.5%...

Parrikar said demand of armed forces veterans for annual revision of pension under OROP scheme could not be considered as definition of ORO...

At stake is whether retired personnel receive the same pension based on rank and years of service -- currently veterans can find themselves...

The time has come to go beyond patriotic slogans and meaningless jingoistic saluting and reset the civil-military balance.

Here is a lowdown on the emotive OROP scheme issue which has ex-servicemen up in arms against the Narendra Modi government.

The bureaucrats have argued that if the military is given OROP, others will demand it. Yes, there are other equally demanding professions.

"Govt this time has decided that the military personnel, who retire at a much earlier age and undergo life-threatening postings, cannot be ...

The demand for separate hardship and counter-insurgency allowances for para-military personnel at par with the army was reviewed at a meeti...