Child marriage foiled in Odisha’s Ganjam district

The Ganjam district administration in Odisha has thwarted an attempt to marry off a 15-year-old girl to a man twice her age, officials said. The marriage of the teenager, a student of Class VIII, was fixed with a man of around 30 years in Patapur on Monday night. Acting on a tip-off, the child development protection…

Karnataka: 6 decades since proposal, work to build Hassan airport to begin soon

After waiting for nearly six decades, the construction of Hassan airport in Karnataka will soon begin. The district administration informed the tender process for the construction of the first phase of the airport has been completed. According to officials, the project will be taken up by the state and the Centre on a…