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.
Court rules minors lack legal capacity for live-in ties, cites POCSO & child marriage laws. It stresses welfare over choice, and directs custody to parents or guardians for protection.
SC is hearing a petition filed by a woman challenging an Allahabad HC order allowing her husband’s petition to declare their marriage void under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma directs police to conduct review every 6 months. State DGP GP Singh says crackdown on child marriage is ‘religion-neutral’ exercise.
In his bail application, the petitioner cited Islamic law to defend his marriage to his now-pregnant minor ‘wife’. POCSO is a special law, said the court, rejecting the argument.
The 15-year-old girl had requested release from childcare home so that she could live with her spouse. Judge says marriage is valid as per Islamic Law.
The guidelines ask whether a student can climb stairs, but not whether the college has a ramp. They ask whether a student can bear weight, but not whether the system can bear the weight of its own prejudice.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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