More than 84 lakh farmers, which is around 15% of the total farmers insured in the first year of the Centre’s ambitious Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in 2016-17, withdrew themselves from the scheme in 2017-18, a reply to an RTI application has revealed. It includes 68.31 lakh farmers from …

Speaker convenes Parliament today Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed President Maithripala Sirisena’s dissolution of Parliament and restrained the Election Commission from preparing for snap elections. After hearing 11 petitioners and respondents for two days, the top court suspended until December 7, the proclamation issued by Mr. Sirisena last …

Review pleas to be heard on Jan. 22; women of all age groups can visit the shrine this pilgrim season The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear in open court review petitions against its majority judgment which lifted a ban on women aged between 10 and 50 years from …

175 dead in Nigeria cholera outbreak Suspected cholera cases have jumped in northeast Nigeria, the Norwegian Refugee Council said on Monday. It said 10,000 people have been affected and 175 people have died in the States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe as of early November 2018.AFP Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/lagos-nov-12-2018-afp/article25480988.ece

Ex-Minister to be Nepal’s envoy to India The Nepal government on Monday nominated former Law Minister and senior politician Nilambar Acharya as Ambassador to India. The position was vacant since October last year.PTI Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/nepal-names-former-law-minister-as-ambassador-to-india/article25480987.ece

At least 150 people have been killed in 24 hours of clashes in Yemen’s Hodeidah, medics and military sources said on Monday. Government loyalists supported by a Saudi-led coalition are fighting to oust the Iran-backed Houthi rebels from the Red Sea city, whose docks are a lifeline to 14 million …

Six people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Kabul on Monday, close to where scores of Afghans had been protesting against Taliban attacks on the minority Hazara group. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said 20 were wounded in the blast, in front of a high school …

Erdoğan was accused of playing a ‘political game’ Turkey on Monday lashed out at “unacceptable” comments by the French Foreign Minister, who accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of playing a “political game” over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Erdoğan said on Saturday that Turkey had shared recordings linked to …

Authorities in Bangladesh agreed on Monday to delay national elections by a week because of Opposition demands for more time to prepare. Chief Election Commissioner K.M. Nurul Huda said officials decided to shift the date to December 30 in response to the proposals by the Opposition parties. The new deadline …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asserts that Canada is a welcoming country Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that his government was holding talks with Pakistan over potentially offering asylum to Asia Bibi, a Christian woman recently freed from prison after her blasphemy conviction was overturned. “We are in …