The new Army Chief must restore the dignity of the high office of the Chief, and, equally important, must revive the ethics and ethos...
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Jun 2, 2012
Jun 1, 2012
Govt rings in free roaming
CABINET NOD TO NEW TELECOM POLICY Govt rings in free roaming Girja Shankar Kaura Tribune News Service New Delhi, May 31 The Unio...
Antony’s message to new Gen: Forget the bitter past
Antony’s message to new Gen: Forget the bitter past Ajay Banerjee Tribune News Service CHANGE IN GUARD: General Bikram Singh (L) tak...
BEML serves legal notice on Gen. V.K.Singh; denies charges
Chairman and Managing Director, BEML, V.R.S. Natarajan addresses a press meet in Bangalore on Friday. Photo: K. Gopinathan A day after...
May 27, 2012
Team Anna charges 15 UPA ministers with corruption
Team Anna has accused 15 UPA government ministers including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Mi...
Government in agreement on 'one rank one pension': Army chief
MADHYA PRADESH: The Centre has given in-principle approval to the 'one rank one pension' demand of ex-servicemen, Chief of Army St...
Government will consider One Rank One Pension scheme in 2 months: VK Singh
Dharmashala: With the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence giving its nod on the ‘One Rank One Pension’ scheme, the decision on ...
Army cautions against concessions on Siachen
Army cautions against concessions on Siachen Rules out any demilitarisation of the world’s highest battlefield Arun Joshi/TNS Jammu, ...
May 26, 2012
May 25, 2012
ARMY CHIEF’S SHOW CAUSE NOTICE TO LT GEN
Defence Ministry says it was kept in the dark New Delhi, May 24 A day after the Army Chief General VK Singh issued a show cause notic...
10-year-old's RTI posers stump PMO, Government
Aishwarya Parashar. Photo: Special Arrangement When some simple questions came to the mind of Aishwarya Parashar, a Class-VI studen...
May 24, 2012
Relief for ex-servicemen (One rank one pension)
Relief for ex-servicemen Kalyan Ray, New Delhi: After years of struggle, some relief has finally come for 12 lakh ex-servicemen on Monda...
Army Chief asks for CBI inquiry against serving General
New Delhi: The Army Chief, already in a full-blown battle with the government, appears to have further aggravated the situation by aski...
NEED OF THE HOUR Balance and Restraint by the Media
By : Hemant Mahajan On: May 20, 2012 NEED OF THE HOUR Balance and Restraint by the Media By Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi A recent incident o...
Govt raises interest rate on GPF to 8.8%
New Delhi, May 23 In a move which will benefit millions of employees, the government has hiked interest rate on contributions to Genera...
Army Chief issues show cause notice to Lt Gen
Army Chief issues show cause notice to Lt Gen New Delhi, May 23 Barely a week before his retirement, Army Chief Gen V K Singh has issu...
Petrol price up by over Rs 7.50, steepest hike ever
NEW DELHI: By the time you read this, petrol price would have gone up by more than Rs 7.50 a litre across the country. This is the steep...
May 23, 2012
Ladakh troop revolt underlines Army class tensions
14 Corps Commander strikes deal with angry soldiers, defusing crisis — but hard questions remain Forty-eight hours after troops of the L...
Wards of Ex-Servicemen
Wards of Ex-servicemen who are missing/disabled/killed in action are provided various educational concessions in Government/Government aid...
Reservation for Ex-Servicemen
Reservation for Ex-Servicemen The Central/State Government provides for the following reservation for Ex-Servicemen in the civil jobs:- ...
Prime Minister’s speech on third anniversary of UPA-2 government
Prime Minister’s speech on third anniversary of UPA-2 government Report to the People released Following is the text of the spe...
Gen VK Singh: In India we have a tendency to shoot the whistleblower
General Vijay Kumar Singh steps down as Chief of the Army Staff on May 31, more than two years after he assumed office promising to look in...
Service as sailor to be counted for fixing officer’s pension
Chandigarh, May 22 Chandigarh Bench of Armed Forces Tribunal has held that a sailor, who later gets commissioned in the Navy as an office...
25 dead as trains collide in Andhra
25 dead as trains collide in Andhra Shubhadeep Choudhury/TNS TRAGEDY ON TRACKS Sixteen bodies were charred beyond recognition T...
May 22, 2012
Welfare Schemes for Ex-Servicemen
The details of welfare schemes for Ex-Servicemen are as below: Financial Assistance from Armed Forces Flag Day Fund (AFFDF): 1. ...
New Pension Schemes
The Government has implemented the New Pension System (NPS) for Government employees who join Central Government (except armed forces) on ...
Helmets Mandatory for Women
According to Section 129 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, every person except a Sikh wearing a turban driving or riding on a motor cycle s...
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