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  Vigorous campaign to be launched against child marriage, dowry: Nitish Kumar

  Politics | May 29, 2017 18:54 IST

  Kumar said like taking a call against total prohibition on demand of a few women, he was inspired to run a campaign against child marriage by a woman at "Lok Samvad" (public interaction) programme.

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  Delaying marriages in women can be good for kids' health. Here's the reason

  Lifestyle | April 05, 2017 15:08 IST

  Saying no to child marriages and delaying marriage of younger women have more benefits than you can imagine. Delayed marriage may have significant results in improving child health and education outcomes, a study has revealed.

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  ‘Clear conflict’ between Muslim personal law and POCSO Act: court

  India | March 21, 2017 12:28 IST

  A special court in Delhi has observed that there is a “clear conflict” between the Muslim personal law and the provisions of Protection of Child from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

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  84 per cent of 1.2 crore married children under 10 are Hindus

  India | October 18, 2016 17:40 IST

  Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years–84 per cent of them Hindu and 11 per cent Muslim–reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of recently released census data.

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  Six-year-old girl forced to marry a 55-year-old man in exchange of food and goat

  World | August 09, 2016 16:48 IST

  In a shameful incident that sheds light on the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered Afghanistan, a six-year-old girl was forced to marry a 55-year-old man after her father allegedly sold her in exchange for a goat.

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  Almost half of Indian women get married before 18: UNFPA

  India | July 10, 2016 12:18 IST

  New Delhi: India ranks third when it comes to having child brides and still about half of Indian women get married before they turned 18, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). “Adolescents (10-19 years)

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  30 pc Indian girls married underage, reveals Census 2011 data

  India | May 28, 2016 12:17 IST

  New Delhi: Child marriage is a serious blot on our system and there has been little difference seen between communities and religions when it comes to marrying off their daughters at an early age. Data

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  How 47,000 tent dealers in Rajasthan are standing up to child marriage

  India | April 27, 2016 17:26 IST

  Despite child marriage being illegal in India under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act of 2006, they are still prevalent in some states, including Rajasthan

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  Child marriage in Rajasthan: Five-year-old girl forced to tie knot with minor boy

  India | April 19, 2016 23:03 IST

  New Delhi: In what highlights the regressive approach that still exists in the Indian society, a five-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were today married off by their families in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh, drawing Chief Minister

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  Child marriage will not automatically become void: HC

  India | March 06, 2016 13:33 IST

  Madurai: The Madras High Court here has held that a wedding between minor girl and boy will not become void automatically without either of them obtaining a decree of divorce from family court within two

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  Piplantri: A village in Rajsathan that plants 111 trees on birth of every girl child!

  India | July 15, 2015 22:37 IST

  New Delhi: In a country where incidents of female foeticide, child marriage and widening sex-ratio are everyday flooding the newspapers, here comes a ray of sunshine.A village in southern Rajasthan's Rajsamand district celebrates the birth

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  Married at 11-mths, teenager to move court to annul marriage

  India | May 13, 2015 18:02 IST

  Jodhpur: A country where 47% girls get married below 18 and accept it as their fate has very few brave-hearts who have stood against such ordeals of their respective communities and fought to break free.One

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  Girl annuls child marriage; panchayat slaps fine

  India | May 12, 2015 11:08 IST

  Jodhpur:  A girl's decision to annul her marriage which was solemnised in her infancy has invited the wrath of the village panchayat which has slapped a hefty fine of Rs 16 lakh and banished the

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  41% of teenage girls in India have married, 2011 census data reveals

  India | May 03, 2015 13:06 IST

  New Delhi: According to Census 2011 data, 41.3 per cent of all girls aged 19 in India have married.And out of over 10 million girls of this age during the census, over 4.1 million were

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  After listening to these 'child-marriage' stories your heart will fill with anger!

  Life | April 10, 2015 10:48 IST

  Shivlal is a student of Class 8. Of late, he has been faring poorly in his studies. He has also told his mother that he will flunk in the annual exam.The reason: He is to

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  Recently released Census 2011 data says 33% of women married before 18 yrs

  India | April 03, 2015 9:57 IST

  New Delhi: About one-third of all married women in the country tied the knot before they were 18 year old as per the Census 2011 data released recently.The proportion is much smaller in men, just

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  Indore: 14-year-old girl says no to marriage, yes to books

  India | March 30, 2015 14:14 IST

  Indore: This is the story of Pooja Chaudhary, a 10th class student who was being forced by her parents to get married.When the girl took help from Child Marriage and Women empowerment office, her father

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  Five Major News Events of Today

  India | March 24, 2015 21:05 IST

  Airbus A320 crashes in southern France, 150 feared deadA passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed Tuesday in a remote area of the French Alps as it flew from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, authorities said.As search-and-rescue teams

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  Child marriages in MP: Girl became a bride at 10, mother of three at 14

  India | March 24, 2015 9:44 IST

  New Delhi: From prostitution to seeing death of two of her children, she has gone through all pain.This is a story of a woman who was sold by her parents when she was barely 10,

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  'Balika Vadhu' -- post leap, child marriage back in focus

  Bollywood | February 25, 2015 12:39 IST

  Mumbai: “Balika Vadhu” brought a social menace of society -- child marriage -- into the limelight, and now with an 11-year-old leap, the show makers are set to revisit the original theme of the show