In TV interview, former adjutant general Lt Gen Ashwani Kumar had sought to delink ‘lifestyle diseases’ from conditions that warrant disability pension.
The HC observation comes on a plea seeking to strike down EC directive, asking political parties not to use pictures of armed forces in election campaigns.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
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Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
WithdrawWing/ diluting tax benefits on disability pension will greatly effect the morale of Armed Forces. Britishers knew it & never tweaked with it since 1922. World over soldiers with disability are monetarily looked after. The Hon’ble Defence Minister has already assured in the Parliament that the benefits given to ex-servicemen will not be withdrawn. Why then contradictions? Only requirement is to tighten the system so that no one can take the disability which I think is already done
WithdrawWing/ diluting tax benefits on disability pension will greatly effect the morale of Armed Forces. Britishers knew it & never tweaked with it since 1922. World over soldiers with disability are monetarily looked after. The Hon’ble Defence Minister has already assured in the Parliament that the benefits given to ex-servicemen will not be withdrawn. Why then contradictions? Only requirement is to tighten the system so that no one can take the disability which I think is already done