`Court order promotes balika vadhus among Muslims`

Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2012, 12:33

Bal Thackeray expressed concern over a recent Delhi High Court judgement allowing Muslim girls attaining puberty the right to get married.

Minor girl’s marriage stopped after Collector’s order

Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2012, 12:20

The marriage of a seventh standard student scheduled for today at a village near Sathiyamangalam in the district was stopped on the timely intervention of the District Collector.

Cong wants MP BJP chief removed for backing child

Last Updated: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 17:32

Appealing to BJP president Nitin Gadkari to sack Jha from the post, Ajay also demanded action against the minister of state, Harishankar Khateek.

Wedding cards with birth dates curb child marriage

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 15:57

The unique idea of printing the date of birth of brides and grooms on wedding cards to curb child marriages has yielded encouraging results in the district this year, an official claimed.

President awards girls for opposing child marriage

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 15:40

Fifteen-year-old Sangita Bauri never feared her parents and society when she opposed her forcible marriage in a remote village in West Bengal but she trembled when she was honoured here by President Pratibha Patil for her feat.

Tutu describes `passion` to stop child marriage

Last Updated: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 12:04

Archbishop Desmond Tutu said he came late to the realisation of how common child marriage is.

Underage girls praised for resisting being married off

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 10:04

Three underage girls from Purulia district who were to be married off but refused to do so received appreciation from West Bengal Labour Minister Purnendu Ghosh today.

Centre favours declaring child marriage as void, SC told

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 20:57

The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was in favour of declaring as illegal child marriage which has been held as valid by courts in several cases, despite it being an offence.

SC`s directive to Centre on minor`s marriages

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 23:18

The apex court said if the government did not file its response, it would have to pass necessary orders for rectifying the anomalies.

K`taka HC forms core committee to tackle child marriage

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 23:27

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday constituted a four-member core committee headed by former Supreme Court Judge Shivraj Patil to tackle the menace of child marriage.

Bihar hotspot of child marriage

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 21:30

Bihar is one of the hotspots of child marriage in the country and on an average marriages of 67 per cent of girls below 18 years of age are solemnised every year, state Minister for Social Welfare Damodar Rawat said.

`Muslim Personal Law Board not happpy with Child Marriage Act`

Last Updated: Monday, March 29, 2010, 22:06

The lawyer for the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Monday told the Bombay High Court that the board had issues with Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA).