The Supreme Court refused to put on hold the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and gave the Centre four weeks to respond to petitions on the law; Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that Indian values consider all religions equal, and that is why the country is secular and never became a theocratic state like Pakistan; Madhya Pradesh chief minister at Davos says CEOs are asking him about the unrest in India over the citizenship law; India drops 10 places in a democracy index -- erosion of civil liberties, arrest of Kashmiri leaders, internet ban and Assam NRC were cited as the main reasons; Space agency ISRO has unveiled a robot which will travel to space as part of its unmanned space mission to be launched this year as a prelude to the manned Gaganyaan mission.
