As per the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act of 2013, the Leader of Opposition in the LS will be part of Lokpal selection panel. At present, there ...

If this recommendation is accepted by Parliament, it will pave the way for Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge to be part of Lokpal selecti...

In the new rules, the government has omitted restrictions for the search committee to recommend the names for Lokpal through the list provi...

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is finalising the new rules in consultation with the Law Ministry, official sources said.

The government will go ahead with appointments of Lokpal only after the amendments are carried out in the rules, they said.

The committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of AG Mukul Rohatagi to look into changes in the Lokpal search committee rules

The CVC Act has a provision for including leader of the single largest opposition group in the three-member selection panel headed by the P...

With none of the non-NDA parties having managed the minimum 55 MPs needed to stake claim to the Lokpal post, Sumitra Mahajan is yet to deci...

DoPT is currently in consultations with the law ministry over the proposed changes in Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act rules.

Department of Personnel and Training has expedited efforts to select seven members and chairperson of the Search Committee for Lokpal, offi...

Fali Nariman had recently also refused to be part of the Lokpal search panel, voicing fears that the best will be overlooked by the multi-l...

He said the best people should be appointed to the anti- corruption body and the procedure should be strictly on the basis of the Lokpal Ac...

BJP and Congress were today at loggerheads over the government's move to appoint a jurist to Lokpal selection panel with the main oppositio...

Congress came down heavily on BJP over its protest against the appointment of a jurist to the Lokpal selection panel saying the Opposition ...

Upping the ante, BJP today took the controversy over appointment of a jurist to Lokpal selection panel to the President's doorstep.

The select committee has also taken care of the differences over federal rights of states on appointment of Lokayukta.

Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday ruled out accepting the Opposition's demand for bringing CBI under Lokpal.