Indian brides look on ahead of a mass wedding in Kolkata on February 14, 2012. Some Fifty-one Hindu and nine Muslim couples took part in the mass wedding which was held on Valentine's Day. AFP ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Hyderabad: Child marriage in Telangana is not confined to communities it is usually associated with. A careful reading of the ...