Mumbai: Maharashtra is considering a rule to print the birth dates of the bride and groom on wedding invitation cards to help ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

Maharashtra is considering making birth dates mandatory on wedding invitation cards to prevent child marriages. The proposal ...

In the third part of the ‘Child Brides of America’ series, Firstpost learns about the life of Sara Tasneem, a child marriage survivor, who has been working tirelessly for the past nine years to ensure ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...

Maharashtra is considering a new rule requiring the birth dates of brides and grooms on wedding invitation cards to prevent ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

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Tatkare said consultations are underway with the Rural Development Department and the Law and Judiciary Department before a ...