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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Topic: PCMA

SubscriberWrites: From law to action—NALSA’s blueprint for eradicating child marriage

NALSA’s new SOP targets child marriage with legal action, community support, and rehabilitation—but its success hinges on political will, trained officials, and grassroots change.

Assam child marriage crackdown: What’s the legal age to marry for Muslims and the puberty debate?

Supreme Court set to look into whether age limit for marriage under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act overrides Muslim personal law provisions, so long referred to by courts in such cases.

Child marriage is not ‘void’ but ‘voidable’: Why SC flagged concern over PCMA

Under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, the practice is ‘legitimised’, law ‘needs serious reconsideration’ to be a deterrent to ‘prevent or reduce’ practice, SC had said in 2017

On Camera

In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Geomysore Services to begin full-scale production at private gold mine in Andhra Pradesh

The company said initial output will be around 500 kg a year, rising to nearly 1,000 kg annually once statutory clearances are secured. 

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.