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8th Pay Commission salary hike: Why 2.1 fitment factor, lower than 7th CPCs 2.57, could still deliver a bigger hike

A 2.1 fitment factor under the 8th Pay Commission may look lower than the 7th CPCs 2.57, but the actual salary gain could still be higher. Employee body representative Manjeet Singh Patel explains how existing DA changes the calculation.

25 Aug 2026 8:58 am

HC asks Andhra govt to check if Google-Adani data centre has legal, environmental clearances

Google had announced the Visakhapatnam AI hub in October 2025 with a planned $15-billion investment over five years. It later partnered with Adani Enterprises through AdaniConneX to develop a gigawatt-scale data-centre campus with planned capacity of nearly 1GW

24 Aug 2026 7:07 pm