US, China Trade Deal, Anti-Sikh Riots On Front Pages

On the front page of the Hindustan Times is a report on US-China trade deal dubbed as "momentous" by US President Donald Trump. Another important story is China's isolation at the UN Security Council as Pakistan's efforts to raise Jammu and Kashmir at the UN Security Council through Beijing crumbled once again on Wednesday.

More than two decades after anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, the Supreme Court was told on Wednesday that the Congress government "showed no interest in nailing 1984 rioters". Another story on the TOI front page is a Mumbai court awarding three years' rigorous imprisonment to a 41-year-old man for molesting a former Bollywood actor on board a domestic flight in December 2017.

West Bengal will skip the Centre's meeting on National Population Register, which will be held in Delhi on January 17, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. The daily also carried a story on how after Jamia Millia Islamia violence in Delhi last month, some people are now seeing rays of hope.

The government told the Supreme Court that it has accepted the Justice SN Dhingra committee report, pointing to "connivance" of Delhi Police, the state and prosecution in not filing an appeal in the anti-Sikh riots cases, reports the Deccan Herald. A day after Lingayat seer Vachanananda Swamy "warned" Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa that his government would crumble if he failed to make at least three Panchamasali Lingayats ministers, the seer faced scathing criticism.