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Child marriage foiled in Telangana's Bhongir division
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Mar 11 (ANI): Teams of SHE in Bhongir division were successfully able to stop a child marriage under Bhongir Rural Police Station limits and counselled the parents of the minor girl.
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Savarkar wrote about child marriage before Gandhi addressed it, says Union
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 26 (ANI): Claiming that freedom fighter Veer Savarkar was deliberately sidelined by the previous governments, the Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel said the time has come to give Savarkar the respect and place in history that he deserves.
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Hyderabad: 48 eve-teasers apprehended in 4 weeks
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Rachakonda SHE teams have apprehended 48 eve-teasers within a span of four weeks and also averted a child marriage.
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Child marriages happening in UP even today, says state minister
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Technical Education Minister Kamla Rani Varun on Monday blamed social evils like child marriages for predominant medical conditions like anaemia in women.
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Telangana: Rachakonda Police' 'SHE' teams rescue 69 girls from child marri
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Dec 2 (ANI): In a bid to stop child marriages and create awareness on the perils of the same, Rachakonda Police' 'SHE' teams have come up with several awareness programmes to prevent the practice of child marriages in the rural areas.
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1,516 cases of child marriage reported between 2013 and 2017: Centre tells
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 28 (ANI): Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that a total of 1,516 cases of child marriage have been reported between 2013 and 2017.
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Odisha government plans to make state child marriage free by 2030
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 24 (ANI): In a bid to end child marriage in Odisha, the Department of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti has launched a state Strategic Action Plan (SAP) with the support of UNICEF & UNFPA.
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Rajasthan: 15-year-old knocks CM Gehlot's door to get protection from chil
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Oct 22 (ANI): Amid government's strict policy and action to prevent cases of child-marriages, a 15-year-old girl had to seek help from Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to save herself from the social curse of underage marriage.
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Minimum age for brides raised to 19 in Indonesia
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], Sept 18 (ANI): In a bid to curb child marriage in the country, Indonesia's parliament has revised its marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19.
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1 in 5 boys married off before turning 15: UNICEF
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [USA], Jun 8 (ANI): The UNICEF has, after its first-ever in-depth analysis of child grooms, stated that an estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, out of which 1 in 5 children (23 million) was married off before attaining the age of 15.
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Bilawal calls for an end to child marriage in Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called for a ban on child marriage in Pakistan on Saturday, claiming that a girl dies in Pakistan "every 20 minutes" because of underage pregnancy.
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Rajasthan: Married off at 17, Ruma Devi is now guardian angel for over 20,
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Apr 21 (ANI): Social evils are shunned in this day and age, yet a lot of practices such as child marriage and female foeticide are prevalent in certain pockets of the country, including Rajasthan.
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