Taking a cue from last week’s adverse comments by the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to draft a law that will eventually seek to insulate the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from political influence.

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Law Minister Kapil Sibal and Minister of State for Personnel V. Narayanasamy are among the members of the GoM that will present a draft to the Supreme Court before the next hearing in the case on coal block allocation irregularities on 10 July. 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.