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Jammu(J-K)[India], Nov. 3 : The daily life in Manjakote village has been severely affected as two women were killed and a child was severely injured on Wednesday after Pakistan troops violated ceasefire which targeted Indian posts and border villages in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state casts fear among the residents.

The women were killed in heavy firing and mortar shelling in Manjakote Sector of Rajouri district.

"Two women have been killed in Manjakote. I would say that from Poonch to Jammu continuous firing is going on from Pakistan side and has resulted in several casualties and also huge damage to property," said Shabbir Khan, former state health minister.

A 14-month -old child was injured in cross-border firing in Jammu.

New Delhi [India], Nov.3 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction today.

This is the first major inter-governmental event after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

Scheduled to be held from November 3-5, the conference will pave the way for implementation of the framework in the Asian region and will also devise a mechanism for monitoring its progress.

The Sendai Framework, adopted at the third UN World Conference in Sendai, Japan in March, 2015, is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda and identifies targets and priority action areas towards reducing disaster risk.

Gulbarga (Karnataka)[India], Nov. 3 : The Congress Party has made it clear that it would be cornering the Centre on a number of issues during the winter session of Parliament which is scheduled to start from November 16.

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge told ANI, "There are many issues that at looming at the moment like Jammu and Kashmir, One Rank One Pension (OROP), the Modi government's foreign policy approach towards Pakistan, China's wrongdoings at the border and others where the central government has failed. These all will be debated in parliament. Other parties will put issues according to their strategy."

The winter session of Parliament will end on December 16.

Paris [France] Nov. 3 : World No.1 Novak Djokovic progressed to the last 16 of the Paris Masters with a comfortable straight-sets win over Luxembourg's Gilles Muller on Wednesday.

The Serbian defeated Muller 6-3, 6-4 without much of difficulty. The Serbian will now face 14th seeded Grigor Dimitrov in what could be an intriguing third-round clash.

The 29-year-old must reach the final in Paris to guarantee he extends his 122-week reign at the top of the rankings with Andy Murray rapidly closing in on the Serb. However, failure to do so would allow Murray to overtake him if the Scot can win the title, or if Murray reaches the final and Djokovic exits before the semis.

Washington D.C. [US], Nov. 3 : US President Barack Obama has implicitly criticised Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey over the new inquiry into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email use.

Obama said the investigations should not operate on the basis of innuendo or incomplete information.

The FBI is now investigating new emails that may be linked to its probe into Clinton's private email server.

New Delhi [India], Nov 2 : Sharp anomalies in the taxation rates and structure across different industries such as telecom, tobacco, textiles, food processing and tourism, should be addressed to as the country moves in a transition period for implementing the Goods and Services Tax, the ASSOCHAM-KPMG paper has said in a joint paper for the GST Council.