Kolkata: Amidst the renewed fight over the custody of two children of an Indian NRI couple in Norway even after their return to India, the country's embassy in Delhi has said they consider the issue closed. In reply to a e-mail by city-based NGO India's Smile, counsellor of the Royal Norwegian embassy in Delhi Laila Tronsdal Moen said, "The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Delhi considers the issue as closed from...
12:50 AM, May 29, 2012
The mother of the Norway NRI children, Sagarika Bhattacharya, claimed that her in-laws abused her. ...
01:42 PM, May 26, 2012
Kolkata: There seems to be a new twist in the custody row of the two Norway children. This time it's a domestic battle and not a diplomatic one. Sagarika Bhattacharya, the mother of the two children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya, has claimed that she was beaten by her husband Anurup Bhattacharya, thrown out of their house and tortured in Norway. Sagarika claims that she has not been allowed to meet the...
09:19 AM, May 26, 2012
London: A new mobile service will soon give parents control over their children's cellphone use, whom they chat with or text and also allow them to switch off their phones, wherever they are. Mobile phone company Bemilo is offering the service to parents worried about text bullying, sexting and the disruptive use of phones in schools. It will operate on Vodafone network. Campaigners say the phone deal, which is intended...
10:10 AM, May 22, 2012
Dhaka: A six-year-old boy from Bangladesh who began typing as a three year-old and knew how to programme and download games at the age of four, is hoping to become the world's youngest computer expert and get recognition from the Guinness World Records. As a toddler, Wasik Farhan-Roopkotha started showing an aptitude for computers and mastered several popular video games, BBC reported. "I knew he was very different since his...
11:28 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Chennai: A batch of 750 students from four schools in the city are set to leave for the United States and Canada on a study-cum-pleasure tour for a fortnight from May 1 on what's already being lauded as a once in a lifetime opportunity as the kids are going to NASA, Orlando, to see what they have learnt and learn what they will see. A ceremonial flagging-off function for this...
08:31 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Kolkata: It was a touching reunion of a mother separated from her two infant children for a year over a custody row in Norway on grounds of alleged 'emotional disconnect' in Kolkata on Wednesday. "I am overwhelmed as I am able to kiss them and take them in my lap after a full one year. I can't express myself," the emotionally choked mother, Sagarika Bhattacharya, said holding her one-year-old daughter...
07:48 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Nepotism in Bollywood is usually about sons and daughters taking on their star parents' mantle. But of late, cousins too have started getting their share of the limelight. ...
04:34 PM, Apr 25, 2012
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Tuesday thanked the Norway authorities for sending NRI kids back to India. ...
12:05 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The year-long ordeal for the Bhattacharya family in Norway ended on Tuesday as the two kids - Abhigyan and Aishwarya - arrived in India with their paternal uncle Arunabhash. The kids were accompanied to India by Norwegian authorities. The kids were welcomed at the airport by their grandmother and Minister of State Preneet Kaur. According to Kaur, the kids will stay in the capital on Tuesday with their...
10:20 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Oslo: A Norway court has given the custody of the two NRI children to their uncle. The two children - Abhigyan and Aishwarya - will reach India on Tuesday morning. Three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya will take a flight out of Oslo to Frankfurt and then to India along with their uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya. The two children will be raised by foster parents in India. The Norwegian Child Welfare Services...
06:00 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: For the last few months, reservation for minority communities, particularly Muslims, is a subject of fierce political debate in India. The approval of 4.5 percent sub-quota in government jobs and educational institutions for minorities was presumably to improve their economic and educational backwardness. However, as the data on the enrolment of Muslims in elementary schools shows, reservation in jobs and in higher educational institutions cannot be the only...
02:54 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: After being kept in foster care for nearly ten months, NRI children Abhigyan and Aishwariya will be handed to their paternal uncle, Norway's Child Welfare Service (CWS) recommended on Thursday night. Norway Child Welfare Service said that the kids' uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya be given care of the two Indian children in the child custody row case. The Stavanger District Court will make the final decision on April 17....
09:44 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Oslo: Norway on Friday said it was willing to look for "new solutions" in the interest of the two NRI kids kept in foster care, a day after it expressed its inability to hand them over to their uncle in the wake of a "conflict" in the family which has now prepared a fresh custody agreement. "Although Friday's hearing was cancelled, this does not affect the child welfare's willingness to...
06:49 PM, Mar 23, 2012
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