Mumbai: Maharashtra is considering a rule to print the birth dates of the bride and groom on wedding invitation cards to help ...

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, ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

MUMBAI: Aimed at curbing the rising incidence of child marriages, the Maharashtra government is considering making the ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Maharashtra is considering a new rule requiring the birth dates of brides and grooms on wedding invitation cards to prevent ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...

In villages across Hathras and Etah, child marriages still happen and wedding lights still glow, but not as openly or as frequently as they once did.