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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicEx-servicemen

Topic: ex-servicemen

How father, son turned study buddies to achieve rare feat—both set to join UP Police as constables

Yashpal & Shekhar Nagar, residents of a village in Hapur district, received appointment letters together at an appointment ceremony in Lucknow Sunday.

New disability pension rules will protect genuine military interests & weed out misuse, says CDS Anil Chauhan

Change in name to Impairment Relief doesn't affect 'true nature of entitlement or quantum of emoluments', says CDS. Concerns of ex-servicemen were addressed by a panel, he adds.

‘Assault on dignity…’ — veterans’ group demands rollback of ‘draconian’ changes to disability pension

All-India Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, in statement addressed to defence ministry, says new entitlement rules 'turn medical science on its head and beat logic to death'.

Riling veterans, defence ministry tweaks disability pension. Cover for ‘lifestyle diseases’ reduced

Ex-servicemen association accuses defence ministry of being regressive, negative, & anti-soldier for coming out with 'impairment relief', which is likely to be taxable.

2,000 ex-Armymen under 50 to be inducted into CISF as govt looks to ‘rehabilitate’ them

Appointments will be done on an experimental basis, in the ratio of 75:25 — 75% CISF personnel and 25% contractual — for different posts at selected units.

J&K govt identifies land for Kashmir’s first Sainik colony to house Valley’s ex-servicemen

Twenty-five acre grazing land has been identified in Budgam and its transfer will take place after completion of all the bureaucratic processes.

Ex-servicemen, retired teachers to be roped in to teach at universities on voluntary basis

HRD ministry plans to introduce National Tutors Programme that will see retired persons teach students at higher education institutions in vicinity.

After 10-year wait, defence ministry to grant ex-servicemen status to military nurses

Military nurses had been seeking to be treated at par with other military officers, including doctors.

Top defence finance official & husband accused of bending rules to get govt contract

Ex-MP complains to defence ministry and PMO about ‘corruption at the highest level’, alleges official used her influence to get the contract for husband.

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Saudi crude rerouted via Red Sea to India as Hormuz tensions rise; Russian imports surge

Around 6 million barrels of Saudi oil headed to Indian ports via the kingdom’s west coast, while Indian refiners ramp up Russian purchases amid a temporary US waiver.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.