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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicPay hike

Topic: pay hike

Delhi HC’s legal researchers are taking govt to court over pending pay hikes

The contract researchers have filed a plea to raise their monthly pay from Rs 65,000 to Rs 80,000 with arrears, citing non-implementation of a Delhi HC 2023 order.

Microsoft won’t give pay hikes to full-time employees this year, cites tough economic conditions

The company, now focused on the lucrative generative AI, had in January decided to let go of 10,000 employees, joining other tech companies in preparing for a turbulent year ahead.

Budget 2018 doubles MPs’ salaries, but they’ll no longer decide on their own raises

Each MP will now get Rs 1 lakh per month, but revision of emoluments will now be an automatic, inflation-linked process that’ll take place every five years.

A broken teacher recruitment system negates Centre’s salary package to universities

Even the most attractive salary package offered by public universities loses lustre when confronted by a completely broken teacher recruitment system.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

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.