The Allahabad High Court has ruled that the legal age of marriage applies equally to all citizens, holding that personal law ...

KALABURAGI: In an unusual Pocso Act case where a minor married girl was raped, Additional District and Sessions Court in ...

Maharashtra is considering making birth dates mandatory on wedding invitation cards to prevent child marriages. The proposal is under review by the state government.

In the third part of the ‘Child Brides of America’ series, Firstpost learns about the life of Sara Tasneem, a child marriage survivor, who has been working tirelessly for the past nine years to ensure ...

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday in the ...

The details of a Vinton County child abuse case are reigniting conversations about age limits for marriage in Ohio. While it ...

Climate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to more frequent and younger nuptials, with 12 million girls ...

Once an order for wedding cards is placed, printing press owners and operators, as well as marriage hall (mangal karyalaya) managers, will be legally required to verify the authenticity of the bride's ...

Elizabeth Siders, the 33-year-old mother of 16 children recently rescued in Ohio, was married at age 15 while seven months pregnant, and her defense team are looking into whether she is a victim herse ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra is considering a rule to print the birth dates of the bride and groom on wedding invitation cards to help curb child marriages, Women and Child Development Minister Aditi Tatkare ...

A 28-year-old woman, who got married just 72 days ago, died after falling from the third-floor flat of an NDMC residential ...

Noora Al Shami was just 11 when she was forced to marry her 35-year-old cousin Mohammed Al Ahdam in a three-day ceremony in ...