The Supreme Court on Friday warned the private professional institutions in the country against lacking in faculty standards despite charging high fee from the students and even threatened closure of those institutions not adhering to the set standards.

In the Rainbow Nation, Fernando Torres has looked nothing like the man who has been haunting Premier League defenders for the past few years. It’s not just that his long blonde locks have given way for a trimmed look.

With the first quarter of FY11 just over, markets have now started looking ahead to Q1 results. Technology major Infosys will be the first major player off the mark as usual, on July 13. There are some positive expectations from the Indian IT biggies this time, as results of US firms indicate that tech spending is recovering. The negative impact of the Eurozone crisis is expected to be limited.

National security adviser Shivshankar Menon will visit China for four days, from July 3 to 6, in his capacity as special envoy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He will hold talks with state councillor Dai Bingguo, China’s special representative for the Sino-Indian boundary talks.

The Maharashtra Congress on Thursday urged the Centre to make wheat available to the aam aadmi at an uniform price across the country while demanding changes in the wheat supply policy.

The executive committee of Madhya Pradesh unit of the BJP on Thursday passed a political resolution which dubs the tax levied by the Jammu and Kashmir government on vehicles of pilgrims going to Amarnath and Vaishneo Devi jazia (tax imposed on non-Muslims during the Mughal rule).

The duo of Mr Malvinder Singh and Mr Shivinder Singh and their promoted company Fortis have launched an open offer to buy the remaining 74.73 per cent stake in Parkway for $2.3 billion. It is offering to buy the shares in Parkway for S$3.80 (Singapore dollars) a share as compared to S$3.78 offered by Khazanah. The duo on

The Delhi high court on Thursday directed former defence minister George Fernandes’ wife to produce the 80-year-old leader before it on Monday to ascertain what the ailing leader wants before deciding on a dispute between her and his brothers.

The Haryana government has ordered an investigation into the sudden demise of Bishambhar Kumar Malhotra, a Panipat-based jeweller who had courageously exposed a murky extortion racket involving senior officers of the Haryana police STF some months ago. Malhotra died in a Delhi hospital on Wednesday after a suspected

Car sales showed a good growth in June, maintaining the momentum which started around January. Analysts see high sales in the auto sector continuing for the next three quarters. The country’s largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India, has reported a 17.28 per cent jump in its sales in June.