Ø The chairperson of the National Commission for
Women (NCW), Lalitha Kumaramangalam, has advocated legalising sex work to regulate the trade and ensure
better living conditions for women engaged in commercial sex work. Legalising
the trade, she says, will also bring down trafficking in women and lower the
incidence of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Ms.
Kumaramangalam said she would put forth the proposal at the empowered committee
meeting of the Cabinet on November 8.
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Ø The government constituted a committee to
examine the process of appointing top-level public sector bank executives for
the year 2014-15. It consists of Secretary (Expenditure), Secretary
(School Education) and Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The committee
will examine the selection process for the posts of CMDs/EDs. The government
had decided to cancel the current selection process. As a result, eight posts
of CMDs and fourteen posts of EDs would require to be filled up de novo.
Ø The Gangotri glacier is rapidly disintegrating,
according to recent observations of a team from the Almora-based G.B. Pant
Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development. The team, which has
been monitoring the Himalayan glaciers, particularly the Gangotri, since 1999,
visited the glacier between June and October.
Ø Cyclone Nilofar, the second one to hit India after ‘Hudhud,’
has gained intensity and is expected to hit the Gujarat coast.
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