New Delhi: The 55 lakh Central government employees will now be able to choose a new date to draw their new pay scale under the Sixth Pay Commission award. The Centre on Monday allowed its employees time till December to fix the base date for taking the new pay scale, ...

All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the month of May, 2010 increased by 2 points and stood at 172. This makes it almost certain that the Dearness Allowance from July 2010 will be 45%, that is a 10% hike. This will ...

From now on, teachers will be graded and assessed annually on their performance and become eligible for promotions and career advancements based on their teaching performance, research work and publication quality. With the University Grants Commission (UGC) today notifying its “Regulations on Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic ...

Central government employees will get 17 holidays next year but three of them fall either on a Saturday or Sunday According to a list of holidays drawn up for 2011, which released well in advance, three holidays — Mahavir Jayanti (April 16), Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday (October 2) and Christmas (December 25)— ...

Forging rent receipt can cost an employee his job as the Delhi High Court has held that such a person can be dismissed from service even in the absence of any rules. Justice Rajiv Sahay Endlaw dismissed the plea of an employee that departmental inquiry and consequent dismissal from job for ...