Deposing before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, General Bipin Rawat said he has been meeting jawans who were asking why this gap was not being narrowed.
In TV interview, former adjutant general Lt Gen Ashwani Kumar had sought to delink ‘lifestyle diseases’ from conditions that warrant disability pension.
SC said to claim disability pension, the injury or death of an Army man must be connected with military service, no matter how remote the connection might be.
The letter, tweeted by Nirmala Sitharaman’s office, supports govt’s move to tax disability pension of military personnel who retired after full service.
New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.
Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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