The court observed that the marriage between the parties would not dilute the offence under the Pocso Act or under Section 376 (rape) of th...

While many of us are trying to figure out how such an arrangement has survived the test of time while trying to include people of all sexua...

The Cabinet's recent proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women to 21 years has focussed attention on the need to review the m...

Earlier this year in April, the state Assembly passed Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021, whhich was later notified on June ...

Among other sections, which mainly deal with religious conversion through marriage, the Gujarat High Court had also stayed the operation of...

"The trust and faith of the people in AAP is growing. The 2022 Gujarat Assembly polls will be between the party that has been ruling withou...

Gujarat government will study the efficacy of laws enacted in UP and MP against ‘love jihad’ and consider a similar Act, deputy CM Nitin Pa...

The Samaj also further went on to announce heavy fines for the parents of men and women who marry outside the community.

An estimated 85.2 million of the 103 million were girls, said the ActionAid India report.

The report by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), based on Census 2011, is a statistical analysis of prevalence...

A major real estate player and also co-founder of Diamond Aeronautics in Surat, Badshah made this surprise announcement at Vatsalya Gram, V...

Forty-two girls from mostly poor Kurmi families from Odisha took part in the first-ever match-making ceremony held in Surat on Friday.

The data also shows a clear rural-urban divide. In rural India, 47.3% of 19-year — old girls had been married, in the urban areas the corre...

The difference between proportion of married men and women to the total population of an age group gradually decreases after 24 years of ag...

According to the Personal Law of Muslims, the girl no sooner than she attains the puberty or completes 15 years, whichever is earlier, is c...

That 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 ...

It's definitely a marriage gone sour: one partner says the junior is fine, but he just cannot tolerate the significant other in the relatio...