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Around 2,763 people arrested so far in crackdown against child marriages i
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Assam Police has so far arrested 2,763 persons in connection with the cases related to child marriage across the state.
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Assam Cabinet compliments police for crackdown against child marriage
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Assam Cabinet on Thursday complimented Assam police for its campaign against child marriage, and further directed it to continue with the clampdown.
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"Shouldn't look like action is against one particular community": Maulana
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Maulana Mahmood Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind while talking to ANI said that the action being taken against parents of children in Assam should not happen. If something is being done against a particular community, then people will raise their voices, he said on Wednesday.
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Around 2,500 people arrested in Assam in child marriage cases
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Many more cases of child marriage have come to light in Assam after the state government's massive crackdown against the ill practice.
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Child marriage in Assam: Mutual agreements used as tools to evade law
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Many more cases of child marriage have come to light in Assam after the police arrested 2,442 people as a part of the state government's massive crackdown against the ill practice.
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Assam teenage pregnancy ratio alarming at 16.8 pc: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that, the teenage pregnancy ratio in Assam is quite alarming at 16.8 per cent.
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Assam police arrests 2441 people in connection with child marriages
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The total number of people arrested in connection with child marriages escalated to 2,441, informed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday.
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Hamirpur medical college to be converted into model health institution: Hi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Making a connection with the people enroute to Hamirpur in the local dialect, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, expressed his gratitude to the people of the region for supporting him unconditionally in his entire political journey.
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Child rights body lauds Assam govt's crackdown against child marriages, sl
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Assam police has so far arrested over 2,250 persons across the state in connection with cases related to child marriage.
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Canada's decision to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs may irk China
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Since 2017, Beijing has carried out a sweeping crackdown in the north-western Xinjiang region under the banner of counterterrorism, undertaking campaigns to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim ethnic minority group. Experts estimate that Chinese authorities have detained more than 1 millio
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Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi calls Assam govt's crackdown on child marriag
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The drive was launched on Thursday night after CM Himanta Biswa Sarma chaired a video-conference meeting with senior officials of the police department directing them to launch a crackdown to rid the state of the evil practice of child marriage.
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Women protest against Assam govt's crackdown on child marriages
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A large number of women on Saturday staged a protest in front of a police station in Assam's Dhubri district against the Assam government's action against child marriage. Security personnel were forced to resort to lathi-charge to disperse the women who gathered in front of the Tamarhat poli
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