Courts, to be insulated from corruption, need a Lokpal

The UPA Government on Tuesday constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to formulate a new law to make the CBI autonomous and independent. It is a welcome step and one has lot of expectations. The GoM must consider all suggestions arising out of ...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday issued a statement on the Supreme Court's observations on the CBI affidavit on coal scam probe.

Apart from listing measures such the supervisory functions of the Central Vigilance Commission and the proposed Lokpal, the government intends to make the CBI Act, 2010 a more purposeful legislation.

The contentious anti-corruption Lokpal bill will come up for discussion next month in Parliament after the ongoing one-month recess of the budget session, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said on Sunday.

Chandigarh, Apr 26 : Efforts of the Income Tax Ombudsman (Ayakar Lokpal) in creating greater awareness about the functioning of the Lokpal have begun to bear fruit as evident from the increasing number of complaints that the Ombudsman of the North ...

"Corrupt" politicians will never allow Lokpal Bill to be passed in Parliament, anti-graft activist Anna Hazare has said while urging people to elect representatives with clean image in next Lok Sabha polls. "Politicians are elected to serve the public but they take the role of robbers once they enter Parliament and state assemblies and rob people of their wealth," said Hazare, whose Janatantra Yatra reached Jalandhar last evening. Appealing the public to vote for politicians with a clean image, ...

The Aam Admi Party has reiterated its demand for an independent Lokpal and for the CBI to be placed under the administrative control of such Lokpal.

Despite the acute shortage of time, the UPA is expected to bring in the Lokpal Bill, since the select committee had already submitted its recommendations. |PTI The remainder of the Budget session of Parliament will get under way on Monday after a ...

The writer has posted comments on this article TNN | May 8, 2013, 06.17 AM IST RELATED BHOPAL: With the Congress continuously raising allegations of corruption in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ...