The country's seventh president Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was the only one to be elected unopposed to the post in the history of independent India. IMAGE: President Ram Nath Kovind paying homage at the......
'It is the government's most important duty to ensure that when war breaks out, the armed forces are absolutely ready to face the adversary -- well equipped, well trained and in high spirits,' says......
Fellow citizens: On the eve of the sixty-eighth Republic Day of our nation, I extend warm greetings to all of you in India and abroad. I convey my special greetings to members of our Armed Forces,......
'The high court notice could go some way in easing the vitiated civil-military relationship, and the trust deficit between civil servants and the military,' reports Ajai Shukla. All central......
Mrs S P Singh, a tiny, rounded woman with laugh lines at the corners of her eyes, seems an ordinary housewife, on her way to buy groceries from a middle-class marketplace. But this wife of a......
The challenge of cleaning up the taxation system and introducing the goods and services tax (GST) regime cannot be underestimated, notes A K Bhattacharya. It is a comment on the state of the Indian......
The buzz in the market is that the seventh Pay Commission recommendations will spell a goodbye to fiscal rectitude. We, however, believe this is a false negative and our estimates buttress......
The Cabinet on Wednesday extended by four months the term of the Seventh Pay Commission, which was set up in February 2014 to revise remuneration of some 48 lakh central government employees and 55......
The fifth central pay commission’s 10-year period ended in 2005 and the UPA government then showed no such hurry to set up the sixth central pay commission. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has......
Ahead of elections, the government on Wednesday announced constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission, which will go into the salaries, allowances and pensions of about 80 lakh (8 million) of its......
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field. IMAGE: Gareth Bale refused to celebrate after scoring the decisive goal in his side's 2-1 victory over Levante. Photograph: Alex......