Recognised by the Women and Child Development (WCD) Department, she was honoured for preventing her own marriage at 15 and for bringing similar cases to the authorities’ attention. Shivani being ...

It came after a bride stormed out of her own wedding, after her new husband found out she was hiding a secret CHILD from him. The latest series of the Aussie version of the show has been keeping ...

In a shocking case of child marriage, a 12-year-old girl was rescued by the Hazro police in Attock on Sunday, after her stepfather sold her to a 60-year-old man for Rs50,000.The police intervened just ...

The Bihar government has decided to constitute a State-level 'task force' headed by the Chief Secretary to monitor action taken by authorities to prevent and eradicate child marriages in the State.

The climate crisis has triggered the phenomenon which has come to be known as “monsoon brides”. No formal studies of child marriage have been undertaken, but nongovernmental organisations such ...

Shivani witnessed her older sister being married off at 16 in 2022 when she was just 12. Soon after, her sister’s health ...

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Persistent pressure and advocacy by women’s rights groups partly reduced the amendment’s harm by retaining provisions for the minimum age of marriage, child custody, and polygamy, but the ...

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This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are ...

Geeta Tandon has been the body-double for many of Bollywood's biggest stars. She does car chases, she's been set on fire, jumped through glass... you name it, she's done it. But the story of how ...