MUMBAI: Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India. Kriti Bharti, founder of Saarthi Trust, has helped nullify more than 30 child marriages ...

Even though the prevalence of child marriage declined in India from 49.4% in 1993 to 22.3% in 2021, a Lancet Global Health study revealed that one in five underage girls and one in six boys are ...

Chief Ministers’ conclave chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where Assam’s campaign against child marriage was ...

Nureja Khatun, 19, cries as she waits in her shanty home for her husband Akbor Ali to return, in Morigaon district of Indian northeastern ... crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls ...

Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November ... have been for so many girls I knew who lived in the shadow of child marriage in India, including my grandmother, my aunt and my friends, all of ...

GUWAHATI, India – A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India’s north-east has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said ...

We are 24 years into the 21st century, but every minute, three girl children are forced into marriage in India. Not that you will know this from crime data, which captures a fraction of child ...

NEW DELHI: DELHI’S record of just one reported case of child marriage in 2022 stands in stark contrast to the national scenario, where a total of 1,002 cases were documented across India ...

ALMOST 60,000 child marriages were prevented in the last two years in India, according to Malaysia Nanban. A report published by civil groups in the country found that about 31% of 59,364 unions ...

One in five girls and about one in six boys in India are married, with the progress made towards eliminating the practice of child marriage entirely stagnating in recent years, according to a ...