The anti-government protests against the amended citizenship law did not affect the tourism industry, Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said. According to the tourism ministry data, FTAs grew by 4.3% in September 2019, a month after the abrogation of Article 370, as compared to the same period in 2018. Similarly, Forex grew by 11% during the same period.

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. Today's comments by Piyush Goyal were seen as a clarification of his earlier assertion.

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."