marriage
- Telangana
Won’t accept raise in marriage age for women: Telangana Waqf Board
Hyderabad: As the Centre proposes to raise the marriageable age for women to 21 years from 18 years, Telangana Wakf Board chairman Mohammed Saleem has said that the board has accepted the…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Muslim parents scramble to marry off daughters
Hyderabad: There is growing resentment in the country over the Central Government’s bill presented in the Parliament to increase the girls’ marriage age from 18 to 21. The said bill has currently…
- Hyderabad
Waqf board to convene meeting with Qazis to discuss marriage bill
Hyderabad: The Chairman of Telangana Waqf Board Mohammed Salim has called for a meeting of Qazis’ organizations at Haj House to discuss women’s marriage age. The Central Government has prepared a draft…
- India
Bill on marriage age: Member writes to Par panel chief to allow all women MPs to testify
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev, who is the only woman member of a parliamentary standing committee that is examining the bill for raising the legal age of marriage for females,…
- India
Only one woman in parliamentary panel examining marriage bill
New Delhi: The Parliamentary panel which will examine a bill seeking to raise the legal age of marriage of women from 18 to 21 and submit its recommendations has only one woman…
