Abhigyan and Aishwarya, the two children who were separated from their parents by the child welfare services in Norway, returned to India on Tuesday. ...
11:51 PM, Apr 25, 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
New Delhi: The year-long ordeal for the Bhattacharya family in Norway has finally come to an end. Their two children, Aishwarya and Abhigyan, are set to arrive in India on Tuesday after an Oslo court granted their paternal uncle Arunabhash, their custody. It is a story which put two nations and their governments at loggerheads. Two Indian children were taken away by the Norwegian authorities amid accusations of emotional disconnect...
09:00 PM, Apr 23, 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: The two Indian children caught in the Norway custody battle might finally get to return home. Norway's Child Welfare Service reportedly told a court on Wednesday that a return to India was in their best interest. The children's uncle could now be given custody eventually clearing the way for a retrun home. A final judgement is expected on April 23. Svein Kjetil, lawyer for the Bhattacharyas, said, "It...
06:41 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be a new ray of hope for the Indian couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya locked in a bitter custody row with authorities in Norway. The country's Child Welfare Service has finally recommended giving custody of the two Indian children Abhigyan and Aishwarya to their uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya in India. A district court is scheduled to take a final decision on the matter on the April...
08:28 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Dhuliyan: Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms. With the unthinking swiftness of a movement performed countless times before, she slashes a naked razor blade into a square-cut leaf to trim off the veins. She drops in flakes of tobacco, packs them...
10:23 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka Lokayukta police raided the house of an IAS officer and other officials of the Women and Child Welfare Department after CNN-IBN reported on malnutrition deaths in Raichur. The ADGP of the Lokayukta Police said, "We had credible information that the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) run by Women and Child Department was not functioning properly..." "The quality of food was not good. We conducted raids at...
07:01 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Indian couple in Norway on Friday reunited with their children after 3 months. This is being seen as a patch-up between them and the Norwegian authorities. An agreement has been reached between the Child Welfare services and the parents. Authorities have agreed to give the children's custody to their uncle but on the condition that the parents must stay back in Norway and visit India just twice or...
05:19 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: While the nation prays for 2-year-old Falak, who is receiving treatment for severe injuries at AIIMS, it is the story of the 14-year-old teenage girl who brought the baby to the hospital that exposes the dismal state of a girl child in India. It is not just the baby, but the teenager too, who is a victim of abuse. Police have arrested 4 people, including her father Vijender,...
08:01 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS are expecting a new culture report on Thursday to see how 2-year-old baby Falak has been responding to new antibiotics. Doctors said on Wednesday that her survival chances are less than 50 per cent and the next 3 days will be critical. Meanwhile, the father of a teenaged girl, who got a battered Falak admitted in AIIMS, and two others were arrested on charges of...
10:31 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Child Welfare Commission (CWC) on Tuesday ordered that a case would be registered against the father of the teenaged girl, for cruelty and child abuse, who had brought a battered two-year-old Falak to AIIMS on January 18. The teenager will continue to stay in the institution as she refused to go with her father. The CWC has also demanded that past records be verified and legal action...
05:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Saturday demanded that India lodge a strong protest with the Norwegian Government and make a strong case in support of the two Indian children, who have been separated from their parents, and bring them back to the country. CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat today met President Pratibha Patil along with the grandparents of the children and explained to her the incident. Karat said the President...
08:17 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: On Monday, CNN-IBN brought the story of six-month old Chiku alias Stephen, who suffered a brain hemorrhage during delivery. His parents abandoned him saying it was the hospital's duty to cure him as they were unable to look after him in his present state. Chiku's case is not the only case. Two-year old Suhasini is one of the many abandoned children looked after by the Delhi Council for...
09:03 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Eight girls and 13 boys will be receiving the National Bravery awards. ...
09:13 AM, Jan 19, 2010
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