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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicOld Pension Scheme

Topic: Old Pension Scheme

NPS Account: The Benefits of Staying Active and Contributing Regularly

When it comes to planning for retirement, long-term consistency matters more than short-term intensity. The National Pension System (NPS) is designed to reward discipline...

Guaranteed pensions may cause fiscal ambiguity. Govt may have to raise pension outlay for UPS

UPS seems more fiscally prudent than Old Pension Scheme, but reverses New Pension System’s equitable coverage. More spending on pension may limit space for spending on productive avenues.

SC to take up over 400 SSC officers’ plea seeking post-retirement benefits — ‘breach of Article 14′

The Short Service Commissioned officers are demanding pension and contributory provident funds rights. The plea also questions disparity with Permanent Commissioned officers.

Old Pension Scheme promise, key demand of Priyanka Gandhi, missing from Congress manifesto

Congress leader P Chidambaram says 'OPS very much on our minds', but adds it would be 'premature' to take a stand before report by govt committee reviewing NPS & demand for OPS is released.

‘Old Pension Scheme, freebies alone can’t win polls,’ says senior Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty

The Congress has made the return of OPS a poll plank in six assembly elections. But Chakravarty says the party ‘can’t engage in competitive promises & hope that's enough to win’.

‘Will bankrupt govts down the line’ — Raghuram Rajan warns states opting for old pension scheme

The former RBI governor batted for direct cash transfers to citizens, but said these become a problem if the transfers are untargeted and competitive before polls.

States going back to Old Pension Scheme will hurt India. Here’s what 8th Pay Commission can do

The first payment need not be 50 per cent of the last wage, but could potentially be linked to the proposed indexation of the pensions in payment.

Pension payments for over 2,000 dead people — CAG report flags lapses in govt welfare schemes

In 122-pg report tabled in Rajya Sabha, Comptroller and Auditor General showed other gaps in disbursal & recommended 'specific measures for cleaning/weeding out ineligible beneficiaries'.

Why ’17 lakh’ Maharashtra govt staff are demanding Old Pension Scheme & how CM Shinde plans to tackle it

With govt employees on strike & opposition piling on pressure, Shinde govt has announced formation of 3-member committee to study pension demand.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.