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The proposed Mumbai-Pune ultrafast hyperloop transport system in Maharashtra has come under a cloud, with the state government today signalling that undertaking a first-of-a-kind project of such magnitude could turn out to be a risky proposition at this juncture.

Victims of violence perpetrated by terrorists or Naxals must have an Aadhaar card before receiving financial benefits from a designated central government scheme, the Home Ministry has said

Renowned Kathak dancer Manjari Chaturvedi was allegedly forced to stop her performance midway at an event organised by the Uttar Pradesh government in Lucknow on Thursday evening, allegedly because she was performing on a "qawwali" - a form of Sufi devotional music.

A day after terming Amazon's decision to invest $1 billion in India as "no big favour", Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal today said that he was simply stressing on the need for e-commerce giants to not make things difficult for small traders in the country.

Jeff Bezos, snubbed by the government during his three-day India visit, put out a statement today promising to create an additional 10 lakh jobs in the country by 2025. The Amazon CEO, whose request for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reportedly rejected a month back, said: "I fall more in love with India every time I return here." His announcement of $1 billion investment on his first day in India drew a sarcastic response from Union Minister Piyush Goyal, who said: "It's not as if they are doing a great favor to India." The minister said today his comments had been misunderstood and that "all investment is welcome "as long as it is within the law". Amazon, along with Walmart-owned Flipkart, are being investigated over allegations of predatory pricing, deep discounting, exclusivity and preferential seller treatment. But the government's brush-off to the world's richest man with an estimated net worth of $115 billion has been linked to articles critical of the government in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post.

BJP working president JP Nadda has once again dared Rahul Gandhi to speak 10 sentences on the Citizenship Amendment Act, saying the senior Congress leader has no knowledge and understanding of the amended law.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said it was because of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi that the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case couldn't be hanged in a time-bound manner after their review petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court in July last year.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is a flagship programme of MHRD launched with a vision to enrich rural India. The programme aims to engage faculty and students of higher educational institutions in understanding rural realities.

Fresh death warrants were issued this evening for the four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012; the four will now be executed at 6 am on February 1

Hours before his deadline to leave Delhi, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad told Prime Minister Narendra Modi "I respect you... you should respect the Constitution"

The BJP today announced its first list of 57 candidates for the Delhi assembly elections, scheduled to be held on February 8. Among them are 11 candidates from the Scheduled Caste community and four women.

A 68-year-old convict of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Jalees Ansari, who had gone missing on Thursday after he jumped parole, has been arrested in Kanpur today.

A 26-year-old man was gored to death today at a Jallikattu festival in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district. Police reports say the man was a bull tamer who died in the arena but other reports suggest he was only a bystander

Punjab became the second state in the country to pass resolution against Citizenship Amendment Act after Kerala.

Days after the Left government in Kerala moved the Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Congress today alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was trying to implement the controversial act "secretly" in the southern state.