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India records progress against child marriage, gender violenceNew data reveals child marriage rates are falling in India. Women aged 20-24 married before 18 dropped to 20.1%. Spousal violence also decr...- Birth certificate now sole proof for admissions, jobs in NagalandNagaland now requires birth certificates for school admissions and government jobs. This new rule applies to all official services. The Nag...
- Assam launches intensive drive to make 30 high-risk districts child-marriage free within a yearAssam has launched an accelerated plan to end child marriage in 30 high-risk districts within a year, aligning with India’s goal of becomin...
- Authorities should look into legislating deepfakes, AI-enabled child abuse: Justice NagarathnaJustice Nagarathna was speaking at the closing session of the national annual stakeholders consultation on 'Safeguarding the Girl Child: To...
- Indore officials halt 36 child marriages at mass wedding eventAuthorities in Indore disrupted a mass wedding ceremony after discovering that 36 couples were underage. Acting swiftly, officials from the...
- Assam police launch fresh crackdown on child marriages, 416 arrests madeAssam police arrested 416 individuals in a recent operation against child marriage, registering 335 cases. This is part of an ongoing state...
- 2 lakh child marriages prevented during past year but 1 in 5 girls still wed below legal age: MinisterIndia prevented nearly 200,000 child marriages in the past year, yet one in five girls still marries before 18. A new campaign, Bal Vivah M...
- 2 lakh child marriages stopped in one year: Union Minister Annapurna DeviMinister Annapurna Devi launched a national campaign against child marriage, highlighting the 20 lakh such unions prevented in the past yea...
- Assam will become a Muslim-majority state by 2041: CM Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam's chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, stated on Friday that the Muslim population in Assam is increasing by at least 29 to 30 percen...
- Every minute in India, three girls are forced into child marriageShocking stats reveal three girls forced into child marriage per minute in India. NCRB recorded 3,863 cases (2018-2022); 16 lakh estimated ...
- Marriages in China decline to lowest numbers since 1986Only 7.64 million couples registered to get married across China, the world's most populous nation, in 2021, the lowest since 1986, accordi...
- Sharp fall in marriages heightens China's concerns over declining birth rateA total of 7.63 million couples registered to get married across China in 2021, a record low for the past 36 years since 1986 when the Mini...
- Declining marriage numbers add to China's demographic conundrumAs the demographic crisis deepened, China has permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-c...
- China launches match making campaign as marriage and birth rates dropAuthorities are now not only encouraging young people to get married; they are also trying to keep married couples together. The Communist ...
- 29 lakh children got married between 10-14 years of age in last 10 years: ReportThe report by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), based on Census 2011, is a statistical analysis of prevalence...
- After prohibition, Bihar to achieve deaddiction: Nitish KumarDismissing apprehensions over loss of revenue on account of prohibition, the Bihar CM said a fractional difference accrued in tax revenue c...
- Passport rule: Maneka Gandhi bats for single mom, requests Sushma Swaraj for modificationPriyanka Gupta, a single mother, had started a petition after passport office reportedly insisted on having her husband's name in her daugh...
- Demands for safety of women grew louder in 2012Tirath created a flutter by saying that men should allocate a portion of their salaries as a honorarium in return of the work done by women...
- Wedding food worth Rs 339 crore goes wasteAfter the big fat wedding is done with, what remains is the litter, dirty dishes and piles of excess high-calorie food.
- 47% of young Indian women marry before 18That India marries off its daughters in such a hurry that they have little time to grow out of their teens is a fact that no longer raises ...
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