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
Norway custody row: Tonight at 10 pm, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, were the NRI kids better off in Norway?
01:49 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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre, States and Union Territories on a petition alleging that over one lakh children have mysteriously disappeared from their homes across the country between 2008 and 2011. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar also sought reply from the Attorney General G E Vahanvati on the PIL filed by an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan. Appearing for...
12:05 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP Parliamentary Party and NDA floor leaders in both Houses of Parliament will hold separate meetings on Sunday to discuss the strategy to take on the UPA government in the coming Budget Session on issues like price rise, corruption and Indian children in Norway. The main opposition's parliamentary party leaders will meet on Sunday at 11 am under the leadership of their chief LK Advani to discuss...
08:49 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Mumbai: A former starlet went missing from the Mumbai airport leaving her two children stranded on their way to London. However, 24 hours later, the police tracked her and reunited her with her two teenage sons. Cops found Vaishali Hazare, 41, near a temple in Vile Parle after her husband registered a missing persons complaint with the Versova police. The authorities suspect that marital discord between Vaishali and her husband...
10:16 AM, Mar 06, 2012
The Cabinet approves tougher punishment for traffic offences that includes a jail term of two years for rash and drunk driving. ...
10:51 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Slum children in urban areas across the world, including India, happen to be the most deprived and their sufferings are often obscured by broad statistical averages, a latest UN study has said. In India, like the rest of the world, cities were the "settings for some of the greatest disparities in children's health, education and opportunities," says the report 'The state of the World's Children 2012: Children in...
09:47 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Imphal: An NGO will soon launch a campaign against the use of toy guns by small children in interior Bishenpur district of Manipur as such toys may prompt the little ones to do 'unwanted things' in future life. Spokesman of the Association for Rural Development and Women Empowerment' (ARDWE) Marjit Singh told the media the association was trying to contact different NGOs including All Manipur Kanba Ima Lup (Mothers association...
01:35 PM, Feb 29, 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
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
