The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that disciplinary action cannot be taken against a government employee for uploading posts in a private WhatsApp group. The court observed that any message sent in a WhatsApp group is confined to the group members and cannot be considered as public. The court ruled that forwarding messages in a private WhatsApp group does not come under the conduct rules. The case involved an employee who was suspended and chargesheeted for forwarding an alleged objectionable political message.
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Employees of states that have opted out of the National Pension System (NPS) will continue to earn returns on their corpus, according to India’s pension regulator. Several states had previously opted out of the NPS, leaving state government employees uncertain about accessing their corpus held by fund managers. The regulator also urged banks and other intermediaries to enroll more private sector employees in the scheme. The NPS offers competitive returns and allows systematic withdrawal and retention of the corpus until the age of 75.
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The Kadathur police in Gobichettipalayam taluk arrested a Tangedco employee for causing the death of another worker. The victim suffered electric shock while attending to a power supply fault and died atop an electric pole.
