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New Delhi, July 7: Government has approved minimum
monthly pension of Rs 1,000
under Employees Pension
Scheme 1995 (EPS-95) run by
the retirement body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Parliament
was informed today.
The decision of the government would immediately benefit 28 lakh pensioners including
5 lakh widows getting less than
Rs 1000 as pension every month.
In all, there are 44 lakh pensioners under the EPS-95 scheme.
"Yes, Government has
approved minimum pension of
Rs 1000 per month to the pensioners under the EPS-95," Minister of
state for Steel, Mines, Labour and
Employment Vishnu Deo Sai said
in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
According to the Minister,
several representations have
been received for enhancement of pension under EPS-95
and based on those, "government has approved minimum
pension of Rs 1,000 to pensioners under the EPS-95."
Earlier, Labour Minister
Narendra Singh Tomar had discussed the proposal with trade

unions on June 24 and assured
the government will take a decision within two weeks.
As per the proposal, pensioners were to get the benefit
with effect from April 1 this
year. The government would
have to provide an additional
amount of around Rs 1,217
crore to ensure a minimum
pension of Rs 1,000 for 2014-15.
A senior official said the
new government did not want to
provide this entitlement merely
for one financial year and
wanted this to be implemented
for all times to come. That is
why the proposal was reviewed.
The proposal was already
approved by the UPA government for the current financial
year but could not be implemented as it was not notified.
However a senior EPFO
official, when contacted, said
that the body has not yet
received any notification or
official order in this regard
from the Labour Ministry.
According to him, the
government could formally
announce this entitlement
in the forthcoming budget
on Thursday. PTI

Iraq's political and military
fightback stumbles
Baghdad, July 7: Iraqi
forces struggled to regain
ground lost last month to
militants and politicians
remained divided today
despite mounting pressure
to unite and agree on a new
leadership.
Nearly a month after
militants led by the group
now calling itself the Islamic State (IS) swept through
northern Iraq, plunging
the country into one of its
worst crises in years, the
prospect of either a military
or a political solution still
looked distant.
Iraqi forces have
regrouped after the debacle that saw some soldiers
abandon their positions,
weapons and uniforms as

militants conquered
Iraq's second city of
Mosul and advanced to
within about 80 kilometres
of the capital Baghdad.
It has for more than a
week attempted to wrest
back the Sunni stronghold
of Tikrit seized by IS fighters
in their lightning onslaught
last month but has so far
failed to achieve a breakthrough.
"The army and the
police are seen as sectarian... And therefore the
Sunni community doesn't
provide support or, crucially, intelligence to the
security forces," said John
Drake, an analyst at the
AKE Group security company. (AFP)

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Rajiv Gandhi assassination:
Nalini moves Supreme Court
New Delhi, July 7: S Nalini,
who has been undergoing life
imprisonment in the Rajiv
Gandhi assassination case,
has approached the Supreme
Court seeking to declare as
"null and void" a provision
in law mandating Tamil
Nadu government to consult
the Centre before releasing
seven life term convicts in
the case.
In her petition, Nalini
challenged Section 435(1)
of the Criminal Procedure
Code which mandates the
state government to consult the Centre before premature release of a convict
if the case was investigated
by the CBI.

Nalini has been in jail
for the last 23 year and
undergoing life imprisonment after her death sentence was commuted. She
was sentenced to death penalty by the trial court in the
case on January 28, 1998.
Nalini's death sentence
was commuted to life term
by the Tamil Nadu Governor on April 24, 2000.
"Though 2200 life convicts who had put in less
than 10 years of imprisonment were prematurely released by the Tamil
Nadu Government during
the last about 15 years,
she was excluded from
consideration for prema-

ture release only on the
ground that her offence
was investigated by the
CBI i.E. Her case was
covered by Section 435(1)
(a) CrPC. The said section
is unconstitutional," the
petition said.
A day after the apex
court had commuted the
death sentences of convicts Murugan, Santhan
and Perarivalan, the Jayalalithaa government on
February 19 had proposed
to remit the sentences of
all seven lifers, including the three, and release
them.
The decision of the state
government to release the

convicts was challenged
by the Centre before the
Supreme Court which had
stayed the decision and
referred the matter to a
Constitution bench.
The three-judge bench
had said that the Constitution Bench will decide
whether the sentence of a
prisoner, whose death penalty has been commuted to
life, can be remitted by the
government.
The court had on February 20 stayed the decision to release of three
convicts--Murugan, Santhan and Arivu-- whose
death sentence was commuted to life term by it on

UPSC puts up CSE
marksheets online

February 18 in the case,
saying there had been procedural lapses on the part
of the state government
on the decision to release
them.
The apex court later
on had also stayed release
of convicts Nalini, Robert
Pious, Jayakumar and Ravichandran in the case.
Santhan, Murugan and
Arivu are currently lodged
in the Central Prison, Vellore and they are in jail
since 1991.
The other four are also
undergoing life sentence
for their role in Gandhi's
assassination on May 21,
1991 in Sriperumbudur. PTI

New Delhi, July 7: The
marksheets of civil services examination, results
of which were declared last
month, have been put up on
the website of Union Public
Service Commission.
Candidates,
who
appeared in the 2013 civil
services examination, can
log on to the UPSC website-www.Upsc.Gov.In--to access
their marksheets.
The marksheets of candidates who were recommended and not recommended
for prestigious government
jobs on the basis of the civil
services exam, and detailed
results of those who could
not qualify the main examination have been made available on the UPSC portal.
The marksheets of civil
services (preliminary)
examination 2013 have
also been made available
online. PTI

3 judges assume charge in SC, taking strength to 27
New Delhi, July 7: Justices Arun Mishra, Adarsh
Kumar Goel and Rohinton
F Nariman today assumed
charge as Supreme Court
judges, taking the apex
court's strength to 27, including Chief Justice R M Lodha.
Justices Mishra, 59, and
Goel, 61, were the Chief Jus-

tice of the Calcutta High
Court and the Orissa High
Court respectively. 58-yearold Justice Nariman, who was
a senior advocate and in the
panel recommended by the
Supreme Court collegium,
has been elevated as an apex
court judge from the bar.
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31, including the CJI.
The three judges were
elevated to apex court and
were administered the oath
of office by CJI Lodha.
Justice Mishra was part
of law faculty in Jiwaji University, Gwalior from 1986
to 1996. He was appointed

as Additional Judge in the
Madhya Pradesh High Court
on October 25, 1999 and was
made a Permanent Judge on
October 24, 2001.
He was appointed Chief
Justice of the Rajasthan High
Court on November 26, 2010
and was transferred to the
Calcutta High Court as Chief

Justice on December 14,
2012. He will have a tenure of
about seven years in the apex
court. Justice Goel was designated senior advocate by the
Supreme Court in 1999 and
two years later was appointed
a judge of Punjab and Haryana
High Court. He was
appointed Chief Justice of

the Gauhati High Court on
December 20, 2011 and was
transferred to the Orissa
High Court as CJ on October
12, last year.
Justice Nariman is the
fifth lawyer to be elevated as
a Supreme Court judge and
will have a term of about
seven years. PTI