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Introduction The Indian government has tabled the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Lok Sabha, a bill aimed at increasing the minimum legal age of marriage for girls from 18...
India is witnessing a sharp surge in ‘panic’ or ‘distress’ weddings following the government’s proposal to raise the legal age women can wed from 18 to 21, the same as men. Girls in their late teens are being rushed into marriages by parents worried that the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021 will become law and they will have...
Maharashtra MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has raised concerns over the make-up of a committee that is looking into a bill for raising the legal age of marriage of women from 18 to 21.
Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 2 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, tasked to review and report back on the controversial Bill to enhanc
Talking to Free Press Journal, Sushmita said that due to the ‘farsightedness’ of TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee that Trinamool Congress is the only party that has sent a woman representative in the standing committee examining the Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021.