
New Delhi: Celebrities like Aamir Khan and Nicole Kidman going in for surrogacy has helped spread the word about the option and make people aware of it, says author Kishwar Desai, whose new book deals with the issue of assisted reproduction. Desai dealt with female foeticide and infanticide in India in her award-winning "Witness the Night", the first of the Simran Singh trilogy. Her second book "Origins of Love" is...

06:08 PM, Mar 29, 2012

Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao are among the first celebrities to talk about it openly, but how many Indians are turning to surrogacy? ...

10:01 PM, Dec 07, 2011

New Delhi: Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao are among the first celebrities to talk about it openly, but how many Indians are turning to surrogacy? Or even know about the possibilities of IVF? It's a pressing issue given that 30 million couples in India struggle with infertility. A boon to those couples, In-Vitro Fertilisation or IVF is a technique in which eggs are fertilised outside the body, and then implanted...

01:54 PM, Dec 07, 2011

Germany's ambassador has now said that Berlin may consider granting visas. ...

05:07 PM, Jan 04, 2010

Caught between legalities, the twins are neither Indian nor German. ...

12:54 AM, Jan 02, 2010

India has been criticised for lack of regulation and laws on surrogacy. ...

03:11 PM, May 20, 2009

Manjhi was issued a one-year Japanese visa on October 27. ...

10:07 AM, Nov 01, 2008

Born to Indian surrogate mum, she was in legal limbo after her Jap parents split. ...

09:58 PM, Aug 15, 2008

A PIL filed by an NGO states that the surrogacy agreement is invalid. ...

09:30 AM, Aug 13, 2008

However, the Indian embassy still has to issue her travel visa to travel to Japan. ...

01:16 AM, Aug 10, 2008

lawyers say, Manjhi's surrogacy agreement is invalid. ...

01:18 AM, Aug 08, 2008

India's laws prohibit her divorced Japanese father from taking her custody. ...

03:01 PM, Aug 07, 2008

Nine-day-old Manjhee was born to a surrogate mother in Ahmedabad. ...

09:26 PM, Aug 05, 2008