New data reveals child marriage rates are falling in India. Women aged 20-24 married before 18 dropped to 20.1%. Spousal ...

Child marriage persists in several Indian states despite years of campaigns promoting girls' education and delayed marriage, with West Bengal and Jharkhand reporting the country's highest share of ...

India's NFHS-6 survey reports a decline in child marriage, with the percentage of women aged 20-24 married before 18 falling from 23.3% (NFHS-5) to 20.1%, attributed to improved education and ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

Guwahati: Assam recorded a sharp decline in the number of child marriages, with an 89% decrease among girls and 91% among boys in the last three years, surpassing the national average, according to a ...

Police in Assam detain 3,000 men in month-long operation Crackdown leaves poor families without main breadwinner Campaigners say arrests wrong way to tackle child marriage RADHANAGAR, India, March 1 ...

The Registrar General of India’s report revealed that while a majority of women across the country now marry after the age of 21, early marriages continue in several pockets of eastern and central Ind ...

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