Age BA, pore bie (education first, then marriage) – this simple slogan, long championed separately by a government education ...

GUWAHATI, India — A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Sunday.

Kishan Gopal, right, 15, sits with his 12-year-old newly wed wife Urmila in a mass marriage outside his village in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan on May 17, 2010 Danish Siddiqui / Reuters ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...