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National conference to discuss end of child marriages in India
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 28 (ANI): With an aim to formulate a national action plan to end child marriages in India, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will be organising two-day 'National Conference on Child Marriage' from Wednesday.
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Hyderabad SHE Team foil 2 child marriages
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Mar 11 (ANI): The Rachakonda SHE Teams stopped two child marriages in two different incidents from here.
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Child marriage averted in Telangana
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Bhongir (Telangana) [India], Mar 10 (ANI): The Bhongir Division of Telangana's SHE Team on Friday averted a child marriage at Paccharlabodu Thanda village in Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district.
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Child marriages in India on the decline
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 07 (ANI): Child marriage rates in India have had a significant reduction due to continued efforts being put in the country to abolish the practice, a report by UNICEF said.
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From victim to national level player: Anusha narrates her journey
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Rachakonda (Telangana) [India] February 9 (ANI): A minor girl, who was rescued by the Rachakonda Police and Balalu Hakkula Sangham from child marriage in April 2017, narrated her journey towards becoming National level cricket and Rugby player.
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Rescued child marriage victim felicitated for excelling in sports
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Rachakonda (Telangana) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): A minor girl, who was rescued by the Rachakonda Police and Balalu Hakkula Sangham from child marriage in April 2017, was felicitated by the commissioner of Police, Rachakonda, for standing out in sports.
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PM Modi praises Bihar's efforts against social evils
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 28 (ANI): In the wake of the recent human chain formed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and others opposing social evils, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while lauding the efforts emphasised on the need to get rid of these from the society.
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DCW urges DMs to look into cases of child marriages
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 10 (ANI): The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Wednesday issued notices to all the District Magistrates in connection with child marriages occurring in the national capital.
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Nitish Kumar campaigns against child marriage, dowry
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 2 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday launched a campaign against the menace of child marriage and dowry and urged the masses to abandon such practices.
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Guna child marriage: Constitution doesn't accept such incidents, says
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India] Apr 15 (ANI): Condemning the development emerging from Guna in Madhya Pradesh where the village Panchayat fixed the marriage of a five-year-old girl with an eight-year-old boy, the state Panchayat Minister Vishwas Sarang on Saturday said that such systems are
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Guna child marriage: Women activists call on Maneka Gandhi to safeguard ch
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 15 (ANI): Strongly condemning the incident where a Panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Guna passed a diktat of marrying a five-year-old girl off to an eight-year-old boy, social activist Brinda Adige on Saturday called on the Union Cabinet Minister for Wom
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Muslims should learn from Hindus and abolish triple talaq: Naidu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Apr 9 (ANI): Asserting that like the Hindu society which abolished practices like child marriage, dowry and sati, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that Muslims should mull over putting an end to the triple talaq divorce system.
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