Girl child marriage in total weddings remained above two per cent in the country, barring in Covid-hit year (2020) ...

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 potential ...

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 ...

Speaking about the way forward towards making the state child marriage-free by 2030, Ribhu said, “Without strong enforcement, child marriage will keep pulling girls out of schools and into recurring ...

A shocking case of child marriage has surfaced in Chariatpur village under Kalgachia police station in Barpeta district, ...

Rukhmabai Raut, married at 11, became the first woman in India to legally obtain a divorce, defying societal norms and ...

Nagpur: The District Child Protection Unit, under the office of district women and child development officer, organised a ...

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the 19th-century scholar and reformer, transformed Indian society by championing widow remarriage, ...

Despite the Dowry Prohibition Act, India recorded at least 34,400 dowry deaths between 2018 and 2022, NCRB data shows. For ...

This story was produced in collaboration with The Fuller Project. March 24, 2024 Archana Ashok Chaure has given her life to sugar. She was married off to a sugar cane laborer in western India at about ...

Police are probing a child marriage after a 13-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly forced to marry a 40-year-old man by her mum. The minor, living in the village of Rangareddy, India, returned from the ...