child marriage
- India
Kailash Satyarthi launches nationwide campaign for ‘Child Marriage Free India’
Jaipur: Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has endorsed the idea of the Central govt to extend the marriageable age of girls to 21 from 18 while launching the nationwide campaign for a…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: 52-year-old man held for marrying 1-year-old minor
Bengaluru: The police in Karnataka have arrested a 52-year-old man for marrying a 16-year-old minor girl, officials said on Saturday. The Women and Child Welfare Department on Saturday served notice to 60…
- India
WB: Govt, UNICEF rope in SHGs to stop child marriage, teenage pregnancy
Kolkata: The West Bengal government in collaboration with UNICEF will form child-friendly sanghas’ (clusters), comprising members of self-help groups, to curb child marriage and teenage pregnancy in the state, which is the…
- India
Child Marriage: Karnataka Police arrest husband, parents of girl
Bangalore: Karnataka Police said on Saturday that it arrested the 46-year-old husband and parents of a 14-year-old girl on charges of child marriage in Yelahanka New Town of Bengaluru. The police have…
- India
Bihar: Man falsely claims wife, daughter ‘forced to convert’
Begusarai: A resident of Bihar’s Begusarai district has accused his neighbours, belonging to another religious community, of kidnapping his wife and married daughter and, after exploiting them sexually, putting pressure on them to…
- Telangana
Hyderabad: 12-year-old girl forcibly married to 35-year-old man, rescued
Hyderabad: A 12-year-old girl, who was forcibly married to a 35-year-old man by her parents in a village in Telangana’s Rangareddy district, was rescued on Monday, police said. The girl was married…
- Telangana
Telangana: Child marriage was disrupted by the Rachakonda Police
Hyderabad: Rachakonda Police SHE Team from Ibrahimpatnam division’s disrupted a child marriage and rescued a young girl, on Tuesday. According to a Telangana Today report, the parents of a minor girl from…
