Today, (December 4), at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, a powerful 100-day nationwide movement was kick-started by the Ministry ...

To reduce prevalence of child marriages to 10% by 2026 and to make India child marriage free by 2030, a 100-day ‘intensive ...

Mysuru: Mysuru, Mandya, and the other southern districts of Karnataka witnessed a sharp decline in the number of child ...

Parents in Puttaparthi commit to ending child marriages, promoting education and safeguarding their daughters' futures during a public pledge event.

o A child bride from India who was married off to her groom at 11 months old has had her marriage dissolved. 19-yr-old Santadevi Meghwal from Jodhpur, in the western state of Rajasthan, in India, was ...

Notwithstanding the promulgation of harsher laws and the many campaigns launched by the state government to raise awareness ...

Rights activists have lauded a top court order to prevent child marriages in India, where over 1 million children entered into wedlock in the 2023-24 period. The Supreme Court on Oct. 18 said child ...

New Delhi, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi on Thursday said child marriage snatches childhood away from daughters and pushes them towards early maternity and "unimaginable ...

Maharashtra has prevented 6,428 child marriages in seven years, but incidents rose 800% recently, indicating socio-economic ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child brides being beaten by their husbands will no longer be included in India's biggest survey of domestic violence - potentially hiding the problem ...