Tag: Child marriage

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday launched the second phase of the flagship girl student scholarship scheme, ‘Nijut Moina 2.0’, aimed ...

Bangladesh has recorded the highest rate of child marriage in South Asia, with over half of all girls married before reaching the legal ...

In a heartbreaking incident from Helmand province, Afghanistan, a six-year-old girl was forced into marriage with a man nearly eight times her age. ...

In a disturbing trend, families of underage girls in Krishnagiri district’s Kelamangalam block have allegedly altered birth dates on Aadhaar cards to conceal ...

The government of the Islamic nation Iraq is all set to amend the Nikah law. The proposed legislation would lower the age of ...

Assam's chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, made a significant announcement on September 2, revealing that the state is on the path to banning ...

In an effort to combat child marriages in Assam, police have arrested more than 1,800 people from all over the state in Assam. ...

The town of Bamoun in northwest Cameroon recently crowned its new king. Traditional council of the Bamoun people, an ethnic group in Cameroon ...

On Friday, Rajasthan Assembly passed the Rajasthan Compulsory Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which amends the Rajasthan Compulsory Registration of Marriages Act, ...

In has been almost three and a half years since the BJP government came to power in the Northeast. The government, under the ...