A 16-year-old village girl from Murshidabad, who complained to the BDO against her parents for arranging her marriage this April after her Madhyamik exam, received the state Birangana (bravery) award....

Pradeep Singh, President of Dhanbad Zila Decorator Association, said, “As very few marriages were solemnized during the previous lagan season of June-July, around 5,000 marriages are s...

Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that marriage between first cousins is illegal.  The court said that the marriage, which the petitioner wants to perform with a girl, who is his first cous...

The East Midnapore district administration, in a written directive to all block-level officials, has mandated  that persons involved in the marriages of underage girls must be reported to police ...

The Indian State can seldom desist from fiddling with its people’s lawful personal affairs. Two consenting adults can marry legally; it is nobody’s business if one partner decides to chang...

Karnataka minister and BJP national general secretary C.T. Ravi on Tuesday said the state government would enact a law banning religious conversions for the sake of marriage. “On the lines of A...

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a uniform marriageable age for men and women. The petitioner, who has sought the transfer of all related appeals to the Supreme Court from the high ...

On Independence Day, the prime minister had announced that his government might raise the legal age of marriage of girls from 18 to 21. A high-level panel looking into the average age of motherhood, e...

With Indian Matchmaking — a show that gets into the nitty-gritty of the desi matchmaking business, through the work of Mumbai-based matchmaker Sima Taparia — becoming a bonafide hit on Net...

They are the opposite of a ‘happening couple’. They appear blissfully domesticated with only the noise from a malfunctioning fridge in their house indicating perhaps all is not well in the...