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Former Chief Justice of India J S Verma, who headed the government-appointed committee to frame a tough law to tackle crime against women in the wake of the December Delhi gang rape incident, died in New Delhi on Monday. He was 80. Dr Yatin Mehta, head of the Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, at MedantaMedicityHospital in Gurgaon where Verma was admitted, told PTI that the former CJI breathed his last at 9:30 pm on Monday. “He was brought in with liver failure and bleeding ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the operation of its verdict making it mandatory to appoint only serving or retired chief justice of a high court or a Supreme Court judge to be the chief information commissioner (CIC). The CIC heads the panel at the ...

New Delhi, April 23 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday expressed shock and grief at the passing away of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Justice J. S. Verma.Justice Verma expired at the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon on Monday.

The widow of a martyr came to chief minister Nitish Kumars janata durbar on Monday, accusing her in-laws of duping her of the compensation received from the Union government after the death of her husband. Malti Devi, 35, lost her husband Sipahi ...

New Delhi : The Indian news broadcast industry lost a guide and mentor late last evening in the passing away of 80 year old Justice (Retd.) J.S. Verma, chairperson of the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA). Verma, a former chief justice of ...

Navindra Devi's husband, N.K. Rajpal Singh, wandered off from his Army unit in Bikaner, Rajasthan, while being treated for a psychiatric illness. His body was later found in a well. The unit showed him retrospectively on annual leave. The Armed ...

NEW DELHI: One of the biggest showpiece legislations of UPA - the Right to Information Act (RTI)-is at serious risk of running aground. The RTI, which compels the government to share information about its functioning with citizens on demand and has ...

8.00 pm: .06:39 pm: Protesters demand death penalty for Sanjay Dutt. Ajay Devgn stopped outside the actor's house. 5.40 pm: Govt is launching direct benefit transfer scheme for LPG in 20 districts having high Aadhaar coverage from June 16. The ...

In February, speaking at the third anniversary of the Moneylife Foundation in Mumbai, Vinod Rai, India's comptroller and auditor general, quoted from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, ...