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Pakistan: 70-year-old man arrested for marrying 13-yr-old girl in Swat
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to reports, the minor girl was wed to the elderly man by her father. Upon receiving this information, law enforcement promptly intervened, arresting both the groom and the father of the young girl.
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SC refuses to entertain plea seeking direction to Centre to make gender, r
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition seeking direction to the Centre to make gender and religion-neutral laws on uniform marriage age, divorce, maintenance and alimony.
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SC dismisses plea seeking uniform minimum age of marriage for men and wome
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking a uniform minimum age of 21 years for marriage for both men and women.
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SC declines to entertain plea seeking uniform marriage age for men, women
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking to equalise of the legal age of marriage for men and women.
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Supreme Court adjourns hearing on PILs for four weeks over Uniform laws on
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned for four weeks on petitions seeking direction to the Centre to make gender and religion-neutral laws on uniform marriage age, divorce, maintenance and alimony.
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Delhi HC transfers plea seeking uniform marriage age for men, women to Sup
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday informed the petitioner that on January 13, 2023, the Supreme Court allowed transferring the main proceedings pertaining to uniformity in the minimum age of marriage for men and women in diverse legislations.
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Malaysia's Kedah state raises marriage age to 18
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], July 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia's Kedah state has raised the minimum legal age for marriage among Muslims from 16 to 18 years old in order to ensure girls will reach the minimum maturity age before entering a marriage.
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Parliament panel to examine Bill proposing marriage age change on Wednesda
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 9 (ANI): The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports would examine the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill in its first meeting on April 13.
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Raising women's marriage age to 21 will enable girls to build career, beco
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the purpose for raising the age of marriage for girls from 18 to 21 years has been proposed to empower 'desh ki beti' so that they get enough time to complete education and build their careers and bec
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All women MPs should be allowed to testify: Sushmita Dev to parliamentary
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The only woman member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports Sushmita Dev on Monday wrote to the Committee Chairperson Vinay Sahayabuddhe to invoke Rule 84 (1) to enable women MPs to testify before Committee
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Only one woman MP in Parliamentary panel on marriage age; Priyanka Chaturv
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote a letter to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu raising concern over the inclusion of only one woman in the Parliamentary panel that will examine the Prohibition on Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill seeking to increase th
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Panel is gender skewed, says lone MP in Parliamentary committee formed to
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The parliamentary panel headed by BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, to which the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill that seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 has been referred to, will start its deliberat
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