American actress, singer and founder of Rare Beauty Selena Gomez expresses her desire to have a baby. But she is unable to bear the baby be...

Accenture in India has launched a program to support employees choosing to adopt a child, providing financial assistance for adoption-relat...

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

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the central government on the petition by a ...

For superstar Nayanthara, the road to motherhood seems to be pretty rocky.

In India, the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, which came into effect on January 25, has made it very difficult for couples to have children thr...

The 15 major changes suggested by the 23-member select committee of Rajya Sabha to the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, also included del...

The National ART Registry of India (NARI) maintained by the ISAR is the nodal agency tasked with recording surrogacy cases. But infertility...

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

Accenture joins a club of corporates such as Standard Chartered, Citibank, Barclays, Murugappa group and HCL who choose to give 22-28 weeks...

The benefits will also include one month of additional paid maternity leave to cover for illness, if any, and three months of unpaid leave ...

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

India’s proposed surrogacy bill has dealt a double whammy: it restricts options for those who want children & curbs income opportunities fo...

Sathpathy questioned why a single parent or homosexual couples should not have as much right to raise a child as “traditional” married coup...

Surrogate mothers have to be married and a close relative of the husband or wife. A woman can be a surrogate mother only once.

The duration of paid leave that can be availed for maternity has been increased from 12 weeks to 6 months (180 calendar days).

At SAP Labs India, employees who opt to become parents through surrogacy will get the same leave benefits as those who adopt a child.