Quicktakes

Pension hike

NEW DELHI: Retired Central government employees will get not less than fifty per cent of the minimum pay in the revised scales introduced from January 1, 1996 of the posts last held by them as pension. Similarly, they will get a family pension not less than 30 per cent of the minimum pay in the revised scales.

Train derails

MUMBAI: Five coaches of the Mumbai-bound Rajdhani Express derailed between Anus and Bordi stations of Western Railway in Panchmahaldistrict of Gujarat this morning. The five derailed coaches included the pantry car.

MLA surrenders

PATNA: Suspended BJP MLA Dhruv Bhagat today surrendered before the court of the designated CBI judge, S K Lal, in a conspiracy angle case of fodder scam. He was evading arrest ever since arrest warrant was issued.