WION Morning News Brief November 4, 2017

President Donald Trump departed Washington for an almost two week trip to Asia on Friday, during which hewill meet China’s Xi Jinping, Japan’s Shinzo Abe and other Asian leaders.It is the longest presidential tour of Asia since George HW Bush visited in late 1991 and early 1992.

Speaking exclusively to WION, the Union minister says that the nationalism debate around Vande Mataram and Jan Gan Man are irrelevant.

Trinamool Congress hadsuspended Mukul Roy for six years after heannounced his decision to quit the party amid reports that he was planning to join the BJP.

The Tamil icon had made theremark in his column in Ananda Vikatan, a Tamil weekly. The BJP and the RSS have sharply criticised the actor for saying"The right wing cannot challenge talk of Hindu terrorists because terror has spread into their camp as well."

Scientists say that the global efforts since the mid-1980s to ban the emission of ozone-depleting chemicals are the main reason for the ozone hole shrinking, a report in the Washington Post said.