NEW DELHI: Noting that the law doesn’t recognise the concept of marital rape, Delhi high court quashed an order regarding prosecution of a husband under Section 377 for performing “unnatural” sex with his wife. The court also observed “inherent contradictions” in the wife’s statements regarding consent while highlighting the exception of “implied consent” in marriage…
NEW DELHI: There is no proposal to criminalise sexual intercourse or sexual acts by man with his own wife, the wife not being under 18 years of age, the home ministry informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.In written reply to a question, junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said “Sections 74,75,76 and 85 of the…
South Korea, a beacon of democracy and innovation, recently found itself embroiled in an extraordinary political storm. What began as a seemingly benign act of receiving a luxury handbag escalated into a controversy that shook the nation, culminating in an unprecedented—albeit short-lived—declaration of martial law. The scandal, centered on First Lady Kim Keon-hee and a…
Apple supplier Foxconn has directed its recruitment agents in the country to remove age, gender, marital status criteria, and the company’s name from job advertisements for iPhone assembly positions, news agency Reuters reported.Foxconn, which employs numerous women at its Sriperumbudur iPhone facility near Chennai, relies on third-party vendors for assembly-line worker recruitment. These vendors identify…