GUWAHATI, India — A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Sunday.

For 17-year-old Payal Jangid, her fight against child marriage in her native India is personal. The teen — who last week was recognized at the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Awards with the ...

On International Women’s Day, let’s recall the struggle of female revolutionaries for women’s education in India and reflect ...

Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high ...

According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 report, Bihar has the second-highest rate of child marriages in India, following West Bengal. The report states that 40.8% of women in the ...

The data reveals that 8,159 child marriages have taken place across Odisha from 2019 to February 2025. Of them, 1,347 cases have been reported from Nabarangpur, the highest among all 30 districts ...