Sport has also helped members of a marginalised community - the Siddis, who were originally brought to India from Africa ...

Calling for collective efforts to build a child marriage-free society, NTR district collector Dr G Lakshmisha urged all ...

Today, (December 4), at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, a powerful 100-day nationwide movement was kick-started by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to help India end child marriage by 2030.

Police in Assam detain 3,000 men in month-long operation Crackdown leaves poor families without main breadwinner Campaigners say arrests wrong way to tackle child marriage RADHANAGAR, India, March 1 ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

Poverty, seasonal migration, and social exclusion drive child marriage among India's Katkari tribe. This report explores the ...

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 ...

India must accelerate progress in high-risk communities to prevent tens of millions more girls entering illegal child marriages by 2030 When I got married I was just 15....I founded, Chotanagpur ...

BHILWARA, India, Aug 4 (TrustLaw) - Her fate looked sealed when her family began organising the nuptial celebrations. But the bride-to-be, a shy schoolgirl from a remote village in western India, wasn ...