Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by him will work towards giving CBI "functional autonomy" but at the same time asserted that accountability is "important".

Chidambaram's comments came three days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the constitution of the high-powered GoM to finalise a plan of action to secure the autonomy of CBI. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.