8th Pay Commission: Since the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, a lot of agitation is being seen among the employees. While employee organizations have certain expectations from the Pay Commission, pensioners also have different expectations. After the demands of the employee organizations, now the pensioners’ organizations have also demanded changes in the pension structure from this Pay Commission. Now pensioners want that they should get increased pension as per their age.

Pension should be according to age
In the 8th Pay Commission, everyone from employees to pensioners have put forth their demands. Some have demanded increase in DA, some have demanded salary revision and some have demanded pension benefits. Apart from the demand of the employees, pension organizations are also demanding that retired employees should be given pension according to their age. The higher the age, the more he will get the same percentage of his salary during retirement as pension. It has been demanded to keep this structure as follows:

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• A 65 year old retired employee should get 70% of his last salary as pension.
• A 70 year old retired employee should get 75% of his last salary as pension.
• A 75 year old retired employee should get 80% of his last salary as pension.
• An 80 year old retired employee should get 85% of his last salary as pension.
• An 85 year old retired employee should get 90% of his last salary as pension.
• Retired employees aged 90 years or above should get their last salary in the form of full 100% pension.

Not only this, the employees have also put forth their demands regarding pension. In which:

• Increasing the minimum pension to 67% of the last drawn pay (LPD), or equal to the average pay drawn during the last 10 months of service.
• To amend the fitment factor used for pension calculation.
• To review the Dearness Relief (DR) structure and integrate it into pension benefits.
• To expand the scope of family pension benefits.

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Let us tell you that after the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, if the demands of the employees and pensioners are accepted, then about 50 lakh central employees will get the benefit. So about 56 lakh retired pensioners will also get its benefit, including retired defense and railway employees.

Journalist Executed in Saudi Arabia: A well-known Saudi journalist Turkish al-Jasir has been hanged in Saudi Arabia. The journalist was arrested in the year 2018 on charges of terrorism and treason. The Saudi government has given this information. However, human rights organizations have described the allegations leveled against journalists as concocted and false.

According to Saudi’s official press agency, journalist Turkey Al Jasir was over 40 years of age, who was hanged on 14 June after the country’s Supreme Court order. In the year 2018, Saudi Arabia officials raided Al-Jasir’s house from where Jasir was arrested and his computer and phone were confiscated. However, it is not yet clear where and how long the case against the journalist was.

Saudi officials accused Al Jasir

According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Saudi officials said that Turkish al-Jasir operated an account on the social media platform X, through which he had made allegations of corruption against the Saudi’s royal family. Apart from this, Al-Jasir also made many controversial tweets regarding terrorists and terrorist organizations.

Cpj Program director of condemn the execution of a journalist

CPJ’s program director Carlos Martinease de La Serna strongly condemned the execution of the journalist in Saudi Arabia. Apart from this, he said, “Jamal Khashogi, a columnist of Washington Post Jamal Khashogi in the year 2018, is still continuing to punish journalists in Saudi Arabia due to lack of accountability after murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.”

He further said, ‘After the murder of Jamal Khashogi, the international community was not just a deception of him, but his inaction gave Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman’s rule more strength to continue action against the press. “