child marriage

Thiruvananthapuram, April 11 – A political storm has erupted in Kerala over the marriage of teenage girl Monalisa Bhosle, who gained public attention after the Kumbh Mela, with the Kerala branch of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accusing CPI-M leaders of complicity and demanding...

Hyderabad, April 11 Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Union Ministers G Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, and several other leaders paid tributes to the renowned social reformer Jyotirao Phule on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Saturday.Reddy, who was on a visit to Delhi...

Thiruvananthapuram/Bhopal, April 10 – A marriage that was publicly celebrated as a symbol of Kerala’s social inclusivity has come under intense legal and political scrutiny after it emerged that the bride was allegedly a minor, leading to the registration of a POCSO case against her husband...

Islamabad, April 9. Bishops in Pakistan have expressed concern following the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling that a Christian minor's marriage was valid. The Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference (PCBC) stated that the courts are not consistently applying laws that prohibit marriage under...

Patna, April 8 – In a major crackdown, the Rohtas Police have exposed an alleged "bride-buying" racket, detaining 24 individuals – including eight women – and rescuing a minor girl during a late-night raid on Tuesday in the Bikramganj area of the district in Bihar.Acting on a tip-off, police...

Bhopal, April 6 – Ahead of Akshaya Tritiya, the Madhya Pradesh government has intensified efforts to prevent child marriages, issuing detailed directives for strict vigilance during mass marriage ceremonies scheduled for April 20.The Madhya Pradesh Department of Women and Child Development, in...

Beed, Apr 5 The body of a 17-year-old girl, who had been missing for the last three days, was recovered from a well in the Beed district of Maharashtra on Sunday, police said.The discovery was made in the Dharur tehsil. Police said the girl apparently got married a year ago to a young man from...

Islamabad, April 5. All Pakistan Minorities Alliance chairman and former federal minister for national harmony and minorities affairs, Paul Jacob Bhatti, has urged the government to establish an independent parliamentary commission to analyze cases of forced religious conversion and marriage of...

Islamabad, April 4 – Human rights lawyers and advocates have sharply criticised the recent ruling by Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court, which upheld the marriage of a minor Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, to a Muslim man accused of kidnapping her, while rejecting a habeas corpus petition...

In Islamabad, Christians, human rights advocates, and members of civil society in Pakistan held protests against a federal court ruling that upheld the forced conversion of a Christian girl by a Muslim man, local media reported.The protests followed a decision by the Federal Constitutional...

Mumbai, April 2 Actor Shashank Vyas paid tribute to his late co-star Pratyusha Banerjee on her 10th death anniversary on April 1, sharing an emotional post on his social media account.In a post on his social media account, Shashank shared a black and white portrait of Pratyusha, where she is...

Karachi, March 31 Members of Pakistan's minority Hindu community staged a sit-in protest here to highlight the rising cases of abduction and forced conversion of Hindu girls to Islam before marriage to older Muslim men.The protesters came together under the banner of Pakistan Darawar Ittehad...

Guwahati, March 26 Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia on Thursday alleged that the Congress slogan of a ‘New Greater Assam’ is a “dangerous conspiracy” aimed at protecting the rights of ‘Miyas’ at the cost of indigenous people.He asserted that the saffron party was taking both visible and subtle...

Jodhpur, March 22 A woman here reclaimed her life through a legal battle after a decade-long marriage that was solemnized when she was just 12, paving the way for others like her who had lost their childhood to a regressive custom.On Thursday, Judge Varun Talwar of the Family Court annulled...

Kolkata, March 20 West Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya on Friday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegations that the saffron party is bringing in outsiders to foment trouble across the state reflect her "desperation" ahead of the assembly elections.Addressing a press conference at...

Jodhpur, March 19 A 21-year-old woman, who was married at the age of 12, has secured annulment of her marriage following an order passed by a family court here on Thursday.In its order, the court noted the adverse impact of child marriage on the present and future of children and emphasised...

Thane, March 16 A 15-year-old tribal girl was allegedly abducted from Bhiwandi in the Thane district and "sold" to a man under the guise of marriage in the Beed district in the Marathwada region, leading to the registration of a case against her "husband" and five others, police said on Monday...

Islamabad, March 16 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has urged the US government to redesignate Pakistan as a 'Country of Particular Concern' (CPC), due to its systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, as defined by the...

Islamabad, March 16 At least 3,630 cases of child abuse were reported across Pakistan in 2025, representing an 8 per cent increase from the previous year, according to data released by a non-profit organization on Monday.Sahil, an Islamabad-based organization that monitors violence against...

Guwahati, March 15 With the schedule for the Assam assembly elections now out, a host of issues are likely to dominate the campaign rhetoric of political parties in the run-up to the polls.Infiltration: This has been a key issue in the state for decades, which led to the Assam agitation and...