Police from Sagarpara also arrested the fathers of the teacher and the girl. The law enforcers rescued the Class XI student ...

Union women and child development minister Annapurna Devi on Wednesday launched the “Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat Campaign” or child marriage free India campaign portal “to help girls achieve their ...

NEW DELHI: Despite India banning child marriages, over 1,000 such marriages were reported in the country in 2022; the maximum was from Karnataka, where a record 215 such marriages took place ...

Debt, hysterectomies and child marriage -- what working in the sugar-cane industry means for Indian women.

Child marriage remains a significant concern in India, with ongoing prevalence, particularly in certain states, despite an overall decline. One in five girls and nearly one in six boys continue to ...

Even as the conviction rate in child marriage cases in India was “extremely poor” at 10%, at least 96% such cases were pending trial across the country by the end of 2021, according to the ...

Since child marriage is rampant in India, will increasing the age of marriage of women solve this issue? The increase in age of marriage is claimed to bring substantive benefits at the individual ...

On December 20, 2021 the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021, was introduced in the Lok Sabha. The bill argues that the “highly pernicious practice of child marriage ...

In India, child marriages are valid but voidable. Kriti Bharti is working tirelessly to make sure young women know the law that makes it possible for them to leave ...

Local sources say there's been a spike in child marriage during the pandemic. A key reason: By marrying off girls early, poor families have one less mouth to feed in desperate times.

Despite having a law against child marriages for the last 90 years, child marriages are a reality in our country. As per statistics, child marriages account for 27 per cent of marriages in India ...