PM-led panel to decide on new CIC chief today

PM Narendra Modi-led selection panel will meet on Friday to decide the new chief of Central Information Commission (CIC), which is headless for over a week. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, who are members of the three-member panel, will also attend it, sources said. The transparency watchdog has gone headless for the second time since the BJP came into power in 2014, after Vijai Sharma completed his tenure on December 1. Sharma was appointed on June 9, this year.