In a communication sent to the Principal Secretary (Health)/ Secretary (Health) of all states and UTs last month, the ministry also sought ...

The court made the observation while hearing a plea by an Indian origin couple living in Canada challenging the March 14 notification issue...

The Tamil Nadu state government released a public statement yesterday stating that the Ministry of Health has given them a clean chit. Naya...

Only Indian couples who have been legally married for at least five years would be allowed to opt for surrogacy.

Though the definition of infertility is limited to failure to conceive only, there are other medical conditions for which surrogacy is avai...

The committee, which the Rajya Sabha directed in January to prepare a report on the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, tabled its findings on Thu...

The Rajya Sabha Chairman has granted extension upto July 11 to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare for a repo...

Surrogacy Bill of 2016 not only bans commercial surrogacy but also homosexual couples, people in live-in relationships and single individua...

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 was introduced by Health Minister J P Nadda amid noisy opposition protest over the government's demon...

Surrogacy has been an unregulated arena and there is immense scope for exploitation of poor women acting as surrogate mothers.

While regulating clinics, the ART bill is expected to set forth norms for procedures, sperm donations and embryo transfers as well.

Nadda stated that the bill was drafted after a wide consultation with 18 ministries, 22 states and 40 stakeholders, including NGOs and lega...

Government has proposed to ban commercial surrogacy to prevent exploitation of surrogate mothers through a legislation, Lok Sabha was infor...

The home ministry has instructed Indian missions and FRROs not to grant visa to couples intending to visit India for surrogacy.

The speedy passing of the long-pending Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill might put to rest a lot of the questions surround...

Holding that surrogacy has become a commercial activity in India, the AP and Telangana Women's Commission demanded enactment of a legislati...

Unregulated reproductive tourism industry 'procreating' surrogacy is burgeoning, with India being the first country proposing to legalise s...