Saturday, 25 April 2026
Friday, 24 April 2026
Gauhati High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Congress Leader Pawan Khera In FIR By Assam CM's Wife
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LICIAN PHOTO ALBUM BY R K BATRA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
LICIAN PHOTO ALBUM BY R K BATRA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
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Thursday, 23 April 2026
49th Meeting of National Council (JCM) Scheduled on May 11, 2026: Crucial Official Update | StaffNews
49th Meeting of National Council (JCM) Scheduled on May 11, 2026: Crucial Official Update | StaffNews:
A crucial official update for all central government employees: The 49th Meeting of National Council (JCM) is set for May 11, 2026. Read the complete notice.
DA INCREASE AS PER 7th CPC wef 01.01.2026
DA INCREASE AS PER 7th CPC wef 01.01.2026
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Wednesday, 22 April 2026
WB I-PAC Raids|Supreme Court Says That Democracy Is Put In Peril If A Chief Minister Intervenes In A Probe
WB I-PAC Raids|Supreme Court Says That Democracy Is Put In Peril If A Chief Minister Intervenes In A Probe
WB I-PAC Raids|Supreme Court Says That Democracy Is Put In Peril If A Chief Minister Intervenes In A Probe
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Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Derailment of our cases in SC and further course of action
Respected Shri Sahni Sahab,
I am receiving queries from our respected senior members about the current status of our court cases in the matter of DR disparity and Pension Updation. With a view to share the factual position and also the efforts being made for the possible earlier final and favourable judgment, I am sharing herewith my note headed ‘Derailment of our cases in SC and further course of action’. Kindly publish the note in your esteemed blog, if deemed fit.
M P Agnihotri.
Derailment of our cases in SC and further course of action
Abrupt stopping of hearings of our cases in the Supreme Court has extremely disappointed us. As per the record of proceedings dated 3/12/2025, our cases were to be listed on 4/2/2026 on top of the board. After the winter vacation in SC, the bench hearing our cases was changed. Despite emphatic requests by our Sr Advocates on 10/2/2026 and 17/03/2026 for listing and deciding our cases at the earliest (and also as per the apparent intent of the bench seen in earlier hearings), our cases are not finding place in the cause list. It is surprising that the cases which were listed on top priority till 3/12/2025, now, not only have lost priority but even the place in the cause lists.
There may be enormous justifications for delay, but our grief is turning into an ever-increasing living loss with the passage of time.
Petitioners Associations/activists must be making efforts to overcome the impasse. In the meantime, they may also consider course correction and improvements in the arguments made by their advocates, wherever necessary.
As known, on 21rst Aug 2025 and thereafter on 8th and 9th Oct 2025, two Sr. Advocates completed their arguments and another Sr. Advocate covered partly. Most of the submissions of our Sr Advocates were apt, convincing and proving our claims substantially. However, some of the points, though apparently plausible on the surface, were actually incomplete, contradictory and inaccurate. Several alert members pointed out these inaccuracies/inconsistencies. Obviously, the petitioner associations/activists have also noted the specious contents submitted by their Sr Advocates.
As per the daily order dated 12/11/2025 of the SC, the written submissions filed by the Sr Advocates were returned for resubmission after renumbering them as per the pages of revised common convenience compilation. Revised common convenience compilation is already submitted. But, as no hearing has taken place thereafter, the individual submissions are yet to be submitted. So, the Sr Advocates are having the opportunity to make due amendments in their written submission, wherever require. (The court asks for brief note on the arguments to be pleaded by the advocates which is referred as ‘written submission’)
Apart from above, another important aspect is clarity of our prayer for relief claimed. All the petitioners have pleaded the Board Resolution dated 24th Nov. 2001 and Rule 56 of the LIC Pension Rules, in addition to other grounds, in support of pension revision. Board Resolution dated 24/11/2001 provides for pension updation by merging the DR in the Basic Pension and then applying the latest rate of DR on such updated pension (in the minutes of 492nd meeting of LIC Board held on 24/11/2001, at item no. (9) pension upgradation is proposed by giving weightage of 11.25% as in the case of in-service employees, but in the note the methodology described in para 4 (a) and (b) does not provide any weightage. IR paid as per SC order dated 31/3/2016 was also without any weightage). Rule 56 states that matters relating to pension and other benefits in respect of which no express provision has been made in LIC Pension Rules shall be governed by the corresponding provisions contained in the CCS Pension Rules. For CCS pensioners, the benefit of pension revision is given as per the methodology recommended by CPC and approved by the Central Government, which is different for different CPC periods and also different from what was proposed in the LIC Board Resolution. On this matter also, the petitioner associations/activists have to provide well-reasoned and unambiguous in puts to the Sr Advocates with a view to get unambiguous judgment.
AIRIEF is on the job. The aforesaid issues are discussed in the video-meeting of the legal team on 11/4/2026. Accordingly, they have fixed their meeting with the Sr Advocate on 29/4/2026 to discuss the points stated above and decide further course of action. The revised written submission to be submitted by the Sr Advocate of AIRIEF is already discussed and finalised.
If thought appropriate, the petitioner associations may have a joint meeting before next hearing to ponder over this issue and take suitable steps to ensure that contradictory/inconsistent/inaccurate points, if any, are avoided in the submissions of their advocates.
M P Agnihotri
Monday, 20 April 2026
Breaking: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Refuses To Recuse From Hearing Pleas Against Arvind Kejriwal's Discharge, Says Kejriwal Put Judiciary On Trial
Breaking: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Refuses To Recuse From Hearing Pleas Against Arvind Kejriwal's Discharge, Says Kejriwal Put Judiciary On Trial https://www.verdictum.in/delhi-high-court/arvind-kejriwal-justice-swarana-kanta-sharma-recusal-plea-1612475
Breaking | 'Politician Can't Be Allowed To Judge Judicial Competence' : Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Rejects Arvind Kejriwal's Recusal Plea
Breaking | 'Politician Can't Be Allowed To Judge Judicial Competence' : Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Rejects Arvind Kejriwal's Recusal Plea
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NEXT WAGE REVISION IN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS
Government communication for 13th Bipartite settlement #Bipartite #AIBEA
UNJUSTIFIED and ILLOGICAL DISPARITY in payment of DR/DA between WORKING EMPLOYEES vis a vis RETIRED EMPLOYEES.
(Regn No. 1539/2019 Delhi)
Executive and Correspondence Address: G-11/1, MALVIYA NAGAR , NEW DELHI-110017
MOB NO. 91-9899466615, 8851229803, 7903207172, 9915394750 e-mail: aibr.action.forum@gmail.com
PRESIDENT Harihar Sinha 7903207172 harijee789@gmail.com
Ref No. : AIBRAF/ 459 /26 Date : 16th April, 2026
The Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Jeevan Deep Building, Parliament Street, NEW DELHI - 110 001.
Respected Sir,
Sir, we respectfully bring to your kind notice the historic judgment delivered by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on 10.04.2026 in Civil Appeal No. 11592–11593 of 2023, for Working Employees and Retired Employees both wherein it has been categorically held that the discrimination in the formulation of Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) between Working Employees and Retired Employees is impermissible under law, as both are equally affected by inflation regardless of whether one is employed by the State, the Centre or in the Private Sector. Hence there should be no discrimination in providing the DA or Dearness Relief. This ruling further ensures that if a specific DA percentage is mandated, it must be provided equally to all eligible Employees and Pensioners removing the variations that existed previously.
The judgment further clarifies that arbitrariness is unethical to equality, and any distinction between Working Employees and Retired Employees is violation of Right to Equality as per Article 14 of the Constitution characterizing previous discriminatory practices as arbitrary. As the DA rates varied across different sectors and Government bodies previously, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has effectively ended this process. Hence a uniform DA rate must be applied ensuring the neither Government bodies nor Private Sectors organisations could stipulate the lower DA rates as compared to the Central Government.
After finding the facts of the above judgement, we the eight lacs Bank Pensioners are very much aggrieved and anguished and have to submit that the undernoted anomalies created during different Bipartite Settlements between IBA - Indian Banks Association and UFBU - United Forum of Bank Unions enumerated here below are causing huge financial losses to the Bank Pensioners in all Public Sector Banks.
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(1)that Merger of 100 percent DR of pre 2002 Pensioners which is also called tapered DA was corrected wef October 2023 for Bank Pensioners after 20 years without arrears which is a substantial loss to all the Retired Employees only due to unlawful resolution passed earlier in 2002.
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(2)DA upto 8088 point of DA was merged In the 12th BPS, the DA of all Working Employees and for those who retired after November, 2022 but it was not allowed for the pre 2022 Retired Employees.
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(3)The benefit of merger of 1616-1684 point of consumer index was given to all Working Employees with arrears wef 1.11.2002 during 8th BPS. But all the Bank Pensioners were denied benefit arrears and were given monetary benefit wef 2.6.2005.
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(4)Furthermore, from November 1st, 2022 for Working Employees and Retired Employees after 12th BPS settlement, another agreement shifted the calculations to new CPI series (2016=100) from old series of CPI series (1960=100) and the new Pay Scales were constructed by merging of 8088 point of DA.
Both the above benefits were not extended to the Retired Employees prior to 1st November, 2022.
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(5)The DR of Bank Pensioners is paid on half yearly basis, but not revised quarterly so far as is being paid in the case of Working Employees on quarterly basis.
Respected Sir, we humbly request your goodself to intervene these issues and direct IBA and Banks to rectify all the above irregularities at the earliest. Now, there is no option to avoid it. We hope that in the interest of Justice and good relationship, corrective measures will be taken up immediately without any loss of time.
Warm Regards
For and on behalf of All India Bank Retirees Action Forum (R)
GENERAL SECRETARY
Sunday, 19 April 2026
PIB::Cabinet approves additional instalment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2026
Cabinet approves additional instalment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2026 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2253245&RegID=3&LID=1
PIB::प्रधानमंत्री का राष्ट्र के नाम संबोधन का मूल पाठ
प्रधानमंत्री का राष्ट्र के नाम संबोधन का मूल पाठ
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2253420&RegID=3&LID=2
अक्षय तृतीया के शुभ अवसर पर आप सभी को हार्दिक बधाई & शुभ कामनाएँ
अक्षय तृतीया के शुभ अवसर पर आप सभी को हार्दिक बधाई & शुभ कामनाएँ Jai Hind Vande Matram Regards R K SAHNI 19.04.2026
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