MADHURA, India — The well-wishers had all gathered even though neither the teenage bride-to-be nor her mother wanted the girl to go through with the wedding. It took a police raid to stop it, and even ...
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 Sunday. "We will continue ...
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 ...
The Maharashtra Samajik Vikas Trust is a partner with the nationwide network Just Rights for Children, which operates in over 450 Indian districts via more than 250 NGOs working to protect child ...
To prevent possible incidents of child marriage on the occasion of Devuthani Gyaras (Ekadashi) on November 2, the district ...
NEW DELHI -- For couples about to be married here, the global economic crisis has forced the big fat Indian wedding onto a crash diet. Gone are the so-called helicopter grooms of last year's wedding ...