Child Marriage
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'Balika Vadhu' -- post leap, child marriage back in focus
Bollywood | Feb 25, 2015, 12:39 PM ISTMumbai: “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
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Feel like giving up? Wait until you read what they have gone through in their lives!
Life | Mar 08, 2015, 01:27 PM ISTInspiring someone is a tough task as one has to actually bring out a visible change in society for others to notice, appreciate and take the change forward!Some of them find instant success, while others
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Abolition of child marriage in India to take 50 more years: UNICEF
India | Aug 26, 2014, 11:44 AM ISTKolkata: India has witnessed a decline in child marriage in the last two decades, but going by the slow pace it will require another 50 years to abolish the practice from the country, according to
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India home to one in every three child brides in world: UN
World | Jul 22, 2014, 09:01 AM ISTUnited Nations: India has the sixth highest prevalence of child marriage in the world with one in every three child bride living in India, a United Nations report said.Child marriage among girls is most common
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Seven cruel laws against women in Saudi Arabia
World | Mar 15, 2014, 06:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: Saudi Arabian women face several restrictions based entirely on gender. Being an Islamic kingdom, the laws are based on Sharia. With Sarrah Atttar becoming the first Saudi Arab woman to participate in Olympics,
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Child marriage high in rural Bihar, Jharkhand: Report
India | Oct 22, 2013, 08:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: The marriages of 69.6 percent of girls in Bihar and 58.1 percent in neighbouring Jharkhand since 2011 took place before they attained the age of 18, a survey by a NGO said Monday.Releasing
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Odisha asks collectors to keep vigil on child marriage
India | May 11, 2013, 05:33 PM ISTBhubaneswar, May 11: With two days left for the ‘Akshya Tritriya', Odisha government asked all the district collectors to keep a vigil to check child marriages which are held in large number on the auspicious
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15-year-old bride hides on wedding night to avoid 90-year old Saudi groom, old man wants his money back
World | Jan 07, 2013, 10:17 PM ISTLondon, Jan 7: A 90-year-old Saudi Arabian is suing his 15-year-old child-bride's family because she hid herself in the bedroom on their wedding night.The terrified teen locked the door from the inside so that her
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Sex With Wife Below 18 Yrs May Get 7 Yrs In Jail
India | Nov 23, 2010, 10:28 AM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 23: A high-level committee constituted by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram last year to look into the issue of amendments to rape laws is all set to recommend that intercourse with a