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DA hike for central government employees to be announced in September

DA Hike

All the central government employees and pensioners are eagerly waiting for the July DA hike. The announcement is to be made in September. There is no official confirmation on the DA hike announcement date, but media reports are speculating that the decision is to be announced in the month of September 2023. As the retail inflation in the country has hit a 15-month-high level in July, the government is expected to increase the dearness allowance (DA) by 3% points to 45%, as per the reports. The DA hike will be effective from July 1, 2023. The dearness allowance for central

People taking adult education classes have lower risk of dementia: Study

Washington [US], August 23 (ANI): Researchers have found adult education reduces the risk of fluid intelligence and visuospatial memory by 19 per cent for middle-aged and elderly people within five years. The findings were published in Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience by researchers from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan’s Institute of Development, Ageing, and Cancer. “Here we show that people who take adult education classes have a lower risk of developing dementia five years later,” said Dr Hikaru Takeuchi, the study’s first author. “Adult education is likewise associated with better preservation of nonverbal reasoning with increasing age.” Dr Ryuta Kawashima, a

Antilia bomb scare case: SC grants bail to ex-Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma

New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran. On February 25, 2021, an explosives-laden SUV was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence ‘Antilia’ in south Mumbai. Businessman Hiran, who was in possession of the SUV, was found dead in a creek in neighbouring Thane on March 5, 2021. Sharma along with police officers Daya Nayak, Vijay Salaskar and Ravindranath Angre was a member of the Mumbai Police’s encounter squad that killed

Resignation not equivalent to retirement for Leave Encashment unless enabled by statute: Kerala High Court

Kochi, August 22 The Kerala High Court recently held that an employee who leaves his service either on retirement, voluntary or otherwise, or on resignation, would have no vested or inherent right to claim leave encashment, unless it is otherwise enabled by the statute, rules, or norms regulating the conditions of service. The Division Bench comprising Justice Alexander Thomas and Justice C. Jayachandran, made the above observation while considering an appeal preferred by the National Insurance Company seeking to set aside the Single Judge’s order directing the Company to disburse leave encashment to the employee on the ground that the

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