The Biggest Stories Of January 4, 2020

Hundreds of people thronged the streets leading to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi's Chanakyapuri on Saturday and protested against the mob attack and stone-pelting on devotees at the historic Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Sikh saint Guru Nanak, in Lahore; Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot ventured cautious criticism of his government, urging the Congress to be "compassionate and sensitive" following the deaths of more than 100 infants at a state-run hospital in Kota district; Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has weighed in on the controversy over the amended citizenship law that fast-tracks the process of giving citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims from three neighbouring countries. Dr Banerjee, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics with wife Esther Duflo and economist Michael Kremer last year, in a conversation with Dr Prannoy Roy says "we need to be extremely careful in designing institutions to make decisions that can have massive consequences" for people; The BJP has launched a massive outreach program to gather the support for amended Citizenship Act in Assam.