New Delhi: The countdown had begun for the return of Abhigyan and Aishwarya to Kolkata. Under an agreement reached with the Norwegian authorities last month, the two kids who've been in foster care since May, 2011 would have returned to India and been raised by their uncle. The court was expected to give its nod to that agreement on Friday. But signs of marital dispute between the NRI couple emerged...
08:21 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Norway children custody case involving an NRI couple took a bizarre twist as the husband alleged that the wife had 'psychological problems'. Anurup Bhattacharya alleged marital violence and said he has been having problems with his wife. According to an agreement with Norwegian authorities, the kids would have returned to India and been raised by their uncle. However, a court hearing to approve this arrangement has been...
07:30 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the hearing on the custody row involving two NRI children in Norway, two senior Indian officials are leaving for the country. The two MEA officials are heading to Norway on the directions of External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and will be attending the custody hearing on March 23 in Stavanger, official sources said in New Delhi. NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya's children Abhigyan (3) and...
09:52 AM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of the Italian marines accused of killing two Kerala fishermen ends on Monday and they will be produced before the court in Kollam. On Thursday the state government asked the High Court to disallow the Italian ship from leaving Indian water as investigations were still on. Indian laws will be applied to the two Italian marines who are now in judicial custody for killing two...
07:33 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistan court on Saturday remanded family members of Osama bin Laden, including his widows, to judicial custody for nine days. The al-Qaeda chief's youngest widow, Yemeni national Amal Abdulfattah, and her five children were among those remanded to judicial custody. Abdulfattah was with bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by US special forces in May last year. Abdulfattah's brother, Zakarya Ahmad Abdulfattah, has...
04:26 AM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: India will soon send "factual documentation" of its policy framework pertaining to child rights and welfare to Norwegian authorities, which had asked for them following the NRI children custody row. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has already compiled its response to the query of Norwegian authorities about laws and policies dealing with children's rights and their welfare in the country, official sources said. Ahead of the hearing case...
08:40 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Oslo formally agrees to give custody of the Indian kids to their uncle. ...
11:20 PM, Feb 28, 2012
The Norwegian Embassy has confirmed that decks have been cleared for the children to be handed over to their uncle soon. ...
11:13 PM, Feb 28, 2012
A dazzling ton by Virat Kohli keeps Team India alive in the tri-series in Australia. ...
11:07 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The custody of the two Indian children - three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya - will be given to their uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya, the Norwegian embassy said on Tuesday. After Arunabhash get the custody of the duo, he will be able to bring them to India. India has already sent an envoy to Norway to expedite the process and end the custody row. Norwegian Child Welfare Service, Barnevarne, will...
06:02 PM, Feb 28, 2012
The grandparents of the children met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday to convey their concerns. CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat accompanied them. ...
05:53 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, was the Norwegian govt justified in separating the NRI kids from their parents?
10:28 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The NRI couple fighting for the custody of their two young children held in Norway on Tuesday thanked the Indian government for its effort and hoped that their suffering will end soon after a Norway court set March 23 as the date for next hearing in the case that sparked a diplomatic row. "We am really thankful to SM Krishna for whatever support he provided us. I have...
07:50 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Child Welfare Society agreed to the uncle to come over to Norway and talk to them, said Indian couple's lawyer Svein Lode Svendson. ...
09:35 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The pleas for help from the grandparents of Abhigyan and Aishwariya are now being heard halfway across the world, spurring the government to action. As the grandparents of the children protested outside the Norwegian Embassy in Delhi, the government sent a special envoy to meet with the Norwegian foreign minister and child welfare officials with a simple message - send the children back at the earliest. The pressure...
07:47 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The counsel for the Norway NRI couple fighting for its children's custody has said that it may take another six weeks before Norway decides to send the children with their uncle to India. "Next hearing is on March 23," said Sven Svendson, the couple's lawyer. "We will get the decision from court. Hopefully, the children will be able to return to India after the court hearing." He added,...
04:27 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Family members of the parents of two Indian children, who are lodged in a foster home in Norway, along with leaders of political parties on Monday launched a four-day protest demanding that the Norwegian government send the kids back to India immediately. Grandparents of the two children --Avigan and Aishwariya, their family members, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, CPI(M) MP Brinda Karat and CPI leader...
02:40 PM, Feb 27, 2012
The government on Monday sent a special envoy to Norway to discuss the custody row with the Norweigan Foreign Minister. ...
12:20 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Indian government's special envoy Madhusudhan Ganpathi on Monday reached the capital city of Oslo to discuss the custody row with the Norweigan Foreign Minister. He took up the matter with the authorities in Oslo along with Arunabhash Bhattacharya, the uncle of the two children. The visas of the two children expire on March 8. Meanwhile, the grandparents of the children sat on a protest outside the Norwegian embassy...
11:18 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Raipur: A police station chief in Chhattisgarh was suspended on Wednesday, a day after an initial post-mortem report backed a poor man's allegations that his son was mercilessly beaten up in police custody. Victim Santosh Daharia, 25, was arrested on February 14 by policemen of Raipur district's Kharora police station, some 30 km from Raipur, on charges of kidnapping a girl and died in custody on February 19. The Opposition...
01:06 AM, Feb 23, 2012
