Consent articles

  • Manufacturing Consent in the 21st Century

    Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman wrote Manufacturing Consent in the late 1980s to describe the structural forces which cause an otherwise free media—one lacking government censorship, fear of prison for journalists (aside from those sharing designated government secrets), and staffed with people who genuinely see themselves as holding power accountable—can nonetheless produce systematic propaganda, with a highly More
  • Building Consents Issued 2 May

    Building consent statistics are about the number, floor area, and value of new homes, non-residential buildings, and alterations approved for
  • Unnatural sex with wife not rape, consent immaterial: HC

    BHOPAL: Observing that marital rape is not an offence under IPC, Madhya Pradesh HC has ruled that unnatural sex with wife is not rape, and her consent is immaterial in such cases.Justice G S Ahluwalia made the observation while quashing an FIR registered by an estranged wife against her husband under IPC sections 377 (unnatural sex) and 506 (criminal intimidation). In his May 1 order, the judge referred to several judgments of the Supreme Court and high courts, and the definition of rape under...