New Delhi: The government is set to tell the Supreme Court that it is ready to bring in amendments to Delhi Police Establishments Act that will ensure more independence to the CBI, sources said on Saturday.
Sources told CNN IBN that the government is also set to tell the apex court that it will not interfere in CBI investigations.
Under fire for interfering in the probe into coal block allocations, the government is supposed to tell the Supreme Court by Monday of the steps it's taking to ensure the CBI's autonomy. The appointment of CBI Director is already under Lokpal Bill.
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06:20 PM, Jun 01, 2013
The first meeting of the Group of Ministers on making the Central Bureau of Investigation an autonomous body was held on Thursday. The investigating body's autonomy plan ran into trouble as the Department of Personnel and Training resisted the move to initiate a probe on senior bureaucrats without prior permissions. ...
10:15 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Thursday opposed scrapping of the provision which requires the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek government's permission for probing bureaucrats in corruption cases. The DoPT raised the issue during a power-point presentation at the maiden meeting of the Group of Minister headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram which discussed the issue of giving greater autonomy and more financial powers...
10:44 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Faced with the Supreme Court rap on the independent functioning of CBI, the Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday discussed ways to give greater autonomy and more financial powers to the agency. The GoM, at its first meeting, was given a power-point presentation by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in which it opposed scrapping of the provision which requires CBI to...
09:24 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Group of Ministers formed by the PM to review the SC observations on the CBI met for the first time on Thursday in New Delhi. Union Ministers P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid and MoS PMO V Narayanasamy were in attendance. However, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, who was one of the special invitees to the meeting, did not attend it. Coming out of the meeting, Sibal said...
05:11 PM, May 23, 2013
Guna: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday expressed doubt as to whether giving autonomy to CBI would serve the purpose. "There is a question mark on the issue," he told reporters in Guna. "Giving autonomy to CBI...may be like giving autonomy to a police inspector," Singh said. "Is the common man in favour of giving autonomy to an inspector?" he asked. The issue of CBI's autonomy has come to...
01:42 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The government on Friday formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) to deal with the issues raised by the Supreme Court on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its recent hearing on the agency's affidavit on the coal scam probe. The SC had indicted the government for its interference in the agency's functioning and asked it to come up with an affidavit on steps to make the CBI...
05:52 PM, May 10, 2013
Underscoring the importance of financial self-sufficiency for progress, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday asked the government and the civil society to develop a mindset to work together to realise this goal. ...
08:51 PM, Jan 13, 2013
New York: Hewlett-Packard Co stunned Wall Street by alleging a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit Autonomy and taking an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals that renewed questions about the competence of the storied company's board and senior managers. HP said on Tuesday it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders," after a whistleblower came forward following...
01:05 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Srinagar: The ongoing sarpanch protests in Jammu and Kashmir threatens to turn into a face-off between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the former said on Thursday that the local body leaders must be granted more autonomy. Rahul made the statement at a meeting with a delegation of sarpanches from the valley in Delhi. The sarpanches have demanded gun licenses to protect themselves in the...
11:15 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is committed to devolving powers to ethnic Tamils by pursuing the 13th amendment to the constitution, Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said on Tuesday. "The president assured me that he stands by his commitment to pursuing the 13th amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution and building on it to achieve meaningful devolution of powers," Krishna said here. The 13th Amendment of the 1987...
02:43 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday said it is unhappy with the Lokpal Bill saying that the autonomy of investigation is seriously compromised with. Voicing their reservations over the nature of the anti-corruption bill, CBI said that Lokpal alone should supervise cases it has referred and that the investigation agency must continue to have the power to take a final decision and file a police report...
08:26 PM, Dec 23, 2011
London: Hewlett-Packard has extended the deadline for its $11.2 billion takeover of British software company Autonomy, with analysts predicting the US firm is on course to succeed. HP has extended the deadline for the offer to October 3 after gaining acceptances from 41.6 per cent of shareholders. The company requires a further 33.4 per cent support from Autonomy investors to delist its target from the London Stock Exchange. "I am...
06:00 PM, Sep 13, 2011
San Francisco: Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Autonomy Corp. to expand its lineup of business software products as it lowers its profile in consumer electronics. The acquisition, announced Thursday, comes amid a flurry of other dramatic moves that will reshape HP, the world's largest technology company by revenue. The shake-up will sharpen HP's focus on selling products and services to businesses and government agencies, instead of making gadgets for consumers. Buying...
12:53 PM, Aug 19, 2011
Speaking to CNN-IBN, Tibetan Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay claimed he's ready to negotiate with China on Tibetan autonomy anytime, anywhere. ...
11:02 AM, Jun 08, 2011
Jammu: At a time when political groups are calling for an early resolution of the Kashmir crisis, the ruling National Conference on Saturday raised the pitch for the restoration of greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir. While the party's central working committee after a meeting said the "party stands for autonomy", sources within the National Conference told that there was a strong sentiment among the party leaders that the issue...
05:46 PM, Feb 19, 2011
New Delhi: Kashmiris are demanding secession from India and not jobs or economic development, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Thursday and slammed the government for its failure to handle the unrest in the Kashmir Valley that has seen 64 people killed since June 11. During a debate in the Lok Sabha on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi asked Home Minister P...
03:40 PM, Aug 26, 2010
Kashmir's stone pelters have thrown the Valley into turmoil. The PM says he's willing to consider J-K autonomy. But is autonomy the answer? ...
07:10 AM, Aug 19, 2010
The Prime Minister on Tuesday said that the Government was willing to consider autonomy for Kashmir. But the Opposition BJP has said the very idea of autonomy for Kashmir is intolerable. In Kashmir itself, the opposition PDP said autonomy is no solution and the response on the street to Manmohan Singh's speech was lukewarm. ...
07:03 AM, Aug 12, 2010
Srinagar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks on autonomy for Kashmir have evoked mixed reactions. The BJP remains opposed and the separatists along with PDP say it does not provide for a political solution. On the streets in Kashmir Vally, too, the response remained lukewarm. On the curfew-bound streets of Srinagar, there was not much movement on Wednesday and no major reaction to the Prime Ministers speech to the all-party meeting...
09:57 PM, Aug 11, 2010
