Since 2015, more than 11,000 women married to Indians abroad have approached India’s foreign missions with complaints of domestic crises. Many cases involve allegations of fraud and abuse. But in most instances, overseas officials are able to do only so much to help.

All marriages between Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) or Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) and Indian citizens should be compulsorily registered in India, the Law Commission recommended to the Union government on Friday.

The study aimed at examining the prevalence of child labour in the villages of East and West Jaintia Hills Districts of Meghalaya where coal mining is predominant.

Decentralization is the key to the speedy, effective and participatory process of delivery of public services to the needy through development programmes of the Panch

This paper explores poverty and gender analysis in the hill state of Uttarakhand from the perspective of mountain specificities that are interrelated and have direct bearing on the biophysical and socio-economic aspects of the mountain life.