6thPC: Update on the Rank Pay showdown
At the beginning of this month, the three Chiefs met with Expenditure Secretary Sushama Nath to discuss the four core demands of the armed forces. […]
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Controversy
Photos: Indian Navy prays for INS Vikramaditya (last resort!)
The Sevmash shipyard’s publicist Anastasia Nikitinskaya writes about a function at the shipyard yesterday. Hilarious language: The Indians asked God for happy fortune for the
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The PM’s Answer
Wasn’t expecting much of an answer from the PM, but I put the question to him nevertheless on the return flight from Qatar at dawn
A minute for the 21 who died
Amidst all the parochial clamour about “no Indian casualties” and how India will now pay more for the submarine, there’s still the terrible tragedy of
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6thPC Update: Veterans to meet Yechury, Pranab, Antony
A delegation of ex-Servicemen will meet CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury tomorrow (November 7) at noon at AKG Bhavan to brief him about the overall
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6thPC: An update
Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Sureesh Mehta met Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday to discuss the various new anomalies that have allegedly cropped
LiveFist Column: Is AVSC the Panacea?
ByAIR MARSHALSharad Y Savur (Retd)Former AOC-in-CSOUTHERN AIR COMMAND Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was not convinced till 1962 that there was a need to expand the Armed
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Will they, won’t they?
The Defence Minister and Navy Chief were both surprisingly non-committal on whether a final decision had been taken on the Pay Commission core demands. Hopefully
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Special Army Instruction issued on October 11
The Group of Ministers (GoM) has until tomorrow to make its recommendations on the core demands of the armed forces on the 6th Pay Commission.
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Special Instructions on 6thPC issued to forces, Rank Pay speedbump
Special instructions have been issued by the MoD to all three services notifying the 6th Pay Commission. The Army instruction (see snapshot) was issued on
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