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World Affairs Y emen The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) announced that the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached one million. The disease claimed the lives of 2200 people since April 2017, a third of them are children. The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation said that fully one quarter of Yemeni population are suffering from non-availability of food and another 36 per cent from food shortage. Save the Children, a NGO, said that 50,000 children would die J The government claims that it ensured the interests of small depositors by providing for deposit insurance. The DICGC Act stipulated that the deposit premium should be Rs.1500 and the maximum insurance amount payable is Rs. 1 lakh. This limit was set a quarter of a century back. If it were to be adjusted with inflation it should have risen to Rs.5 lakh. The DICGC Act is going to be repelled once FRDI Bill gets the accent of the Parliament. The Section-29 of FRDI Bill merely states that the RC will specify the total amount payable with respect to any one depositor “in consultation with appropriate regulator”. This omission of specific maximum amount means that the depositor’s money would be at the whims of bureaucratic decision. The Bridge The FRDI bill provides for powers to RC to constitute a bridge company ‘wholly’ owned by RC to oversee the transfer of February - 2018 R a v a g ed b y W ar by War before the end of 2017, while UN has reported that one Yemeni child is dying every ten minutes. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the result of more than 1000-day war that ravaged the poorest country in Middle East. Saudi Arabia launched this war in March 2014 with the aim of bringing back to the power its puppet Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was ousted from presidency and fled to Saudi Arabia. The US arms industry supplied the Saudi Arabia with missiles, cluster bombs and other munitions that have been used to reduce Yemeni schools, hospitals, houses, factories and residential colonies into rubble. The air, sea and land blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and US deprived Yemen fuel and other goods to run the system survived from bombing. According to ICRC, 60