Chandra, a 1980-batch IRS official, would join the three-member poll panel led by the chief election commissioner, Sunil Arora. Former bureaucrat Ashok Lavasa is one of the election commissioners.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved designating Adhia as the Finance Secretary, the order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training said.

Most of the new capital will go down the drain as more than half a dozen PSBs are under the preventive corrective action (PCA) of the Reserve Bank of India.

Live updates from press conference being held by Finance Minister Jaitley.

The central government employees were paid arrears from January 1, 2016 on hike basic pay awarded to them in August 2016.

Like central government employees, those working with state governments are also set to receive a pay hike bny virtue of 7th CPC. Take a look at those states.

Finance Ministry instructed other ministries to come up with their Orders on Allowances governed by them so that the revised salaries reflect in the salaries of their employees.

This is expected to benefit 7.5 lakh central government employees working in low-ranking jobs.

As the Union Cabinet took a decision on the reformed allowance rates under the 7th Pay Commission, here's a look at how the story unfolded over the year.