8th Pay Commission Delhi meeting dates: Important update for Defence, Railway employees as 8th CPC set to discuss salary hike, fitment factor & moreThe 8th Central Pay Commission will meet with Defence and Railway employee and pensioner bodies in New Delhi on May 13 and 14, 2026. Stakeh...
07 May, 2026, 01.08 PM IST
8th Pay Commission deadline extension: Employee bodies can now submit their memorandum till May 31, 2026The 8th Pay Commission has extended the deadline for memorandum submission to May 31, 2026, a month after the NC-JCM requested the extensio...
30 Apr, 2026, 10.52 AM IST
8th Pay Commission demands: Rs 72,000 as minimum pay and fitment factor of 4.0; why this employee body wants 4x salary hikeThe Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh (BPMS) has proposed a significant overhaul for the 8th Pay Commission, demanding a minimum basic sa...
24 Apr, 2026, 01.31 PM IST
8th Pay Commission: Government staff seek Rs 69,000 minimum pay, DA merger proposalGovernment employees are pushing for major changes in pay and pensions with the Eighth Central Pay Commission. They want a higher basic sal...
17 Apr, 2026, 01.08 AM IST
Pension of armed forces/family pensioners revised under OROP: Check rank-wise hike in monthly pensions, arrearsUnion Cabinet revised the pension of armed forces pensioners and family pensioners under One Rank One Pension (OROP) with effect from July ...
13 Sep, 2024, 04.02 PM IST
Unveiling India's Rs 6.21 lakh crore Defence budget with a dual focus on self-reliance and export boostFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled a staggering allocation of Rs 6.21 lakh crore for the Ministry of Defence during the Inter...
01 Feb, 2024, 06.04 PM IST
OROP arrears make impact: Pension Bill high; tech assist fund fails to take offThe allocation for the defence ministry has been pegged at ₹5.93 lakh crore, up from ₹5.25 lakh crore in the 2022-23 budget. The capital ou...
02 Feb, 2023, 12.02 AM IST
Defence Budget 2021: Rs 4.78 lakh crore allocated for defence, 19 percent increase in capital outlayRs 1.35 lakh crore has been set aside for capital expenditure that includes purchasing new weapons, aircraft, warships and other military h...
01 Feb, 2021, 09.29 PM IST
Govt disbursed over Rs 42,700 crore to 20.6 lakh ex-servicemen under OROP in 5 yearsUnder the OROP scheme, uniform pension is paid to defence personnel who retire in the same rank with the same length of service, irrespecti...
08 Nov, 2020, 09.44 AM IST
CAG finds deficiencies in defence pension systemIn a report tabled in the Lok Sabha, the CAG said an amount of Rs 6,831 crore was lying in banks at the end of March, 2016, due to procedur...
12 Jul, 2018, 11.07 AM IST
Budget 2016: Holistic approach to defence planning is absent in IndiaThe biggest surprise in the Union Budget is that, of the Rs.3,40,922 crore set aside for the MoD, not a single additional rupee has gone to...
11 Jul, 2018, 01.51 PM IST
‘Crisis’ in defence expenditure is not really about budget allocationsIndia spends more than China on defence, and on par with South Korea and Turkey
09 Feb, 2018, 10.56 AM 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
Ministries incur Rs 8,563 crore excess expenditure: Parliament panelAsking Finance Ministry to devise stringent measures including penal action to check excess spending, a Parliamentary panel said various mi...
16 Dec, 2015, 09.31 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
- Army is on a shopping spree, makes most of funds allocated
India's defence spending in '02-03 has been in sync with the revised estimates approved by Parliament for the first time in recent years, s...
09 Jun, 2003, 04.01 AM IST