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7th Pay Commission: April ‘disaster’ ahead, threaten govt employees

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: “It has been enough. Our demands have been made a joke. We were promised but the matter was intentionally dilly-dallied by the ruling BJP government,” said a Central government employee. If the government will not take note of our demands, it will have to face dire consequences as we are not fools to […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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7th Pay Commission: 3.68 times fitment factor hike just a ‘April fool’

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The Demand of Central government employees to hike the minimum pay, citing that the recent hike recommended by the 7th Pay Commission failed to have any impact on their financial position, was hit when on March 6, Minister of State for Finance P. Radhakrishnan ruled out any hike in the near future. The […]

  • Thursday, 01 July 2021
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April Fools hoax stories can help spot fake news

London: The language used in April Fools hoaxes could offer clues to spotting ‘fake news’ articles, say researchers who discovered similarities in the language used in humorous spoofs and malicious stories. For the research, the team from Lancaster University in the UK, compiled a novel dataset, or corpus, of more than 500 April Fools articles sourced […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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