The Biggest Stories Of January 16, 2020
A day after Jeff Bezos says he will invest a billion dollars in India in 5 years, the Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says, "They may have put in a billion dollars but then if they make a loss of a billion dollars every year then they jolly well have to finance that billion dollars"; In a major setback for mobile service providers, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected telecom companies' plea seeking a review of its earlier order that allowed the government to collect dues worth Rs 92,000 crore from them; The External Affairs Minister has said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will be invited to India to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) heads of government meeting when New Delhi hosts it later this year; Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, arrested for his protest last month against the citizenship law at Jama Masjid, walked out of Tihar jail on Thursday evening, after he was granted bail by a Delhi court but with conditions; The anti-CAA protests continue in many parts of the country. In Bengal, a thousand woman and some men have been sitting in protest at Kolkata's Park Circus. On Friday they went on the first ever women's only march.
