Pension rule triggers disquiet among retireesDisquiet is prevalent among central government retirees over a provision in the Finance Act 2025, raising concerns about pension parity bef...
31 Mar, 2025, 11.16 PM IST
Pakistan govt reduces pension benefits of retired civil, armed forces personnelThe Pakistan government has cut pension benefits for retired civil and armed forces personnel to control the rising pension bill. The chang...
02 Jan, 2025, 11.45 AM IST
Defence Budget 2024 Comparison: How India's defence allocation for armed forces stack up against China and PakistanDefence Budget 2024 Comparison: India's defence budget for FY 2024-25 has been raised to ₹6.21 lakh crore (US $75 billion), up from ₹5.94 l...
24 Jul, 2024, 03.45 PM IST
Centre holds pension adalat, resolves 50 chronic cases"This is a significant day, as apart from pension adalat, 50th PRC (pre-retirement counselling) workshop is being also held today with twin...
17 May, 2023, 06.40 PM IST
Soldiers’ ‘invalid pension’ clause forces Ministry of Defence to re-examine orderThe MoD had announced that ‘invalid pension’ would now also be given to those military personnel boarded out before completing their 10 yea...
03 Aug, 2020, 10.57 AM IST
Disability pension to armed forces: Govt reverts to old regimeThe government today decided to continue with an earlier system of disbursing disability pension and not to go ahead with a new regime reco...
11 Jul, 2018, 04.46 PM IST
'Differences on perfect definition of OROP ... Defence ministry has remained a labyrinth - not easy to tame'Many veteran organisations have interpretational differences with OROP as notified. Then there were serious anomalies in OROP tables which ...
11 Jul, 2018, 02.58 PM IST
Budget 2016: 9% hike in defence budget allocation likely this yearDefence Ministry is likely to surrender Rs 12,400 cr of the Rs 77,406 cr earmarked for acquisitions since several projects could not be pro...
11 Jul, 2018, 01.51 PM IST
Central paramilitary forces have demanded OROP: GovernmentCAPF and AR personnel, who are appointed on or after January 1, 2004 are covered under New Pension System," Minister of State for Home Kire...
11 Jul, 2018, 01.38 PM IST
Edit: Here's how to secure One Rank, One PensionEvery time a new pay commission recommendation (PCR) is implemented, pensions rise and are levelled at half the lower end of the respective...
11 Jul, 2018, 12.34 PM IST
The soldier’s right: Why the arguments against one-rank-one-pension are misleadingThe time has come to go beyond patriotic slogans and meaningless jingoistic saluting and reset the civil-military balance.
11 Jul, 2018, 12.30 PM IST
Railway pensioners 'outlive' those from defence, civil services: OfficialThe railways has over 13 lakh pensioners, of which 2,30,409 are in the 80-90 age bracket and 55,684 in the 90-100 years category, the offic...
22 May, 2018, 09.33 PM IST
7th Central Pay Commission recommendations for Defence ForcesBased on recommendations of a high-level panel, the earlier system of a percentage-based regime of disbursing disability pension has been r...
28 Jun, 2017, 02.56 PM IST
Bazooka hits military’s hopes of modernisationThe defence outlay works out to 1.63 per cent of the projected GDP for 2017-18, the lowest figure since the 1962 war with China.
02 Feb, 2017, 08.37 AM IST
Babus thwarting one-rank-one-pension by inflating cost: Military veteransPut simply, OROP means that every pension-eligible soldier who retires in a particular rank deserves the same pension, irrespective of date...
14 Dec, 2014, 11.16 AM IST
- Parliamentary panel asks govt to implement 'one rank, one pension'
A Parliamentary Committee has asked the government to implement the long-pending demand of 'One Rank, One Pension' (OROP) by the retired ar...
26 Dec, 2011, 11.34 PM IST
- Defence, railway pensioners top pension payment
Former employees of defence and railway squeeze out maximum portion of the central government's pension fund.
03 Feb, 2008, 10.27 PM IST