India accounts for about one-third of the world's child marriages, according to data from the UN's children agency UNICEF, ...

Indian brides look on ahead of a mass wedding in Kolkata on February 14, 2012. Some Fifty-one Hindu and nine Muslim couples took part in the mass wedding which was held on Valentine's Day. AFP ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a significant step towards protecting minor girls, the Belagavi City Police’s special women safety wing “Akka Pade” has ...

Assam has achieved the most significant reduction in child marriages among all surveyed Indian states, with an 84 per cent decline among girls and 91 per cent among boys, according to a recent report ...

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 ...

Acting on directions from the First Class Judicial Magistrate Court in Hosdurg, the Chandera Police registered a case after ...

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, ...