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.
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.
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
If administrators and political actors continue to rely on ritual rhetoric, temporary fixes, and reactive policing, the shrine’s vulnerabilities will deepen.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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