A local court in this Uttar Pradesh district on Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant against filmstar Sanjay Dutt for making provocative utterances during the election campaign for the 2009 general elections, officials said Issuing the warrant, judicial magistrate Krishna Kumar has directed the Mau district magistrate to arrest Dutt and present him in the court on July 8, 2011.

Facing criticism for his earlier comments on IIT and IIM faculty, environment minister Jairam Ramesh took a U-turn and praised the institutions on Friday. He also said that he has a long association with the premier institutions.

Tanzania drummed up a colourful African welcome for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he walked into state house, the hundred-year-old colonial complex lined with traditional dancers, moving to the rhythms of Africa, the venue of the hour long talks he held with Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikewete on Friday.

It’s a gargantuan task, no doubt. But the prestigious Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in the capital has undertaken the daunting yet challenging task of digitising all the historical records it has in its possession.

Germany added its voice Friday to the chorus of concern over Pakistan’s attitude towards terrorism by asking it to come clean on the extent of its links with terrorist groups.

France has, for the time-being, put on hold the sale of heavy defence armaments and equipment to Pakistan. Visiting French defence minister Gerard Longuet told reporters in New Delhi that France has “discouraged” any request by Pakistan for heavy equipment, especially naval equipment. France had earlier sold Agosta submarines

India on Friday asked all its nationals living in Yemen to leave that country through whatever commercial means available in view of the increased violence in which at least 150 people have been killed so far.

A day after UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) finalised its recommendations to the Centre, the government on Thursday repeated its commitment to bring in the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill

Home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said that India lives in the "most difficult neighbourhood" in the world as terrorism infrastructure in Pakistan has flourished "as an instrument of state policy".

Three persons, including a Korean national, were killed and four others were injured in an explosion at India’s first crude oil storage cavern, under construction near here.