-The Telegraph New Delhi: The proposed surrogacy law that prevents women from renting out their wombs for financial gain will be a blow to infertile couples unable to find the service for free, sections of doctors in infertility treatment services said today. The specialists said a law that insists that a surrogate woman has to be a close relative of the infertile couple would be "impractical" and may also raise the risk...

-The Times of India New Delhi: Moved by the plight of a single mother, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi has urged external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to amend passport rules that make listing the father's name a mandatory requirement. Priyanka Gupta, a single mother from Delhi, had started a petition on change.org after the passport office reportedly insisted on having her husband's name in her daughter's passport, despite the fact...

-The Indian Express Section 375 of IPC, which deals with rape, makes an exception for such instances within marriages. It holds that “sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 15 years of age, is not rape”. In her first statement following her ministry’s controversial reply to Rajya Sabha on marital rape, Woman and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi has said that her ministry could...

-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The recently released United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) report on Child marriages shows that Gujarat, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Telangana have high prevalence of Child marriages. The report, "Reducing Child Marriage in India A Model to Scale up Results", mentions Gujarat's Patan among districts with highest numbers of Child marriages in India, along with other such districts from states like Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Telangana....

-Frontline The Living and Learning Design Centre in a Kutch village is about dialogue between contemporary designers and traditional artisans and about keeping crafts relevant. Kutch: “WHY here? Why a design centre of such sophistication in a small village off a highway?” The answer flashes in one’s mind at the same time: “Because that’s the most logical and relevant place for it.” The answer is validated a while later in a...