
While the custody battle continues for the Norway NRI couple Sagarika Bhattacharya and Anurup Bhattacharya, it's the children who are facing the most problems. Psychiatrists say the psychological trauma they're suffering is only getting worse. ...

08:30 AM, Jan 16, 2013

For almost two years, Sagarika Bhattacharya fought to be reunited with her children. This week, the Calcutta High Court ruled they could be together till the case is settled. ...

07:37 PM, Jan 12, 2013

The Calcutta High Court has allowed the interim custody of the Norway NRI children - Abhigyan and Aishwarya - to their mother Sagarika Bhattacharya. Sagarika has got the custody of the children till the final disposal of her petition and till the children's paternal uncle Arunabash Bhattacharya gets the order of the Child Welfare Committee set aside. ...

02:54 PM, Jan 10, 2013

There is more tussle in the child custody battle involving the NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya months after they were brought back from Norway. The Calcutta High Court has restored them to their uncle's custody hours after they finally reunited with their mother Sagarika. ...

03:16 PM, Jan 08, 2013

Sagarika Bhattacharya, caught in a child custody battle involving her and her husband Anurup Bhattacharya, has been reunited with her children Abhigyan and Aishwarya. Nine months after the Norwegian government handed them over to their uncle, the two children have finally been handed over to their mother. ...

01:51 PM, Jan 08, 2013

Kolkata: The Child Welfare Committee in Burdwan in West Bengal has given the custody of two NRI children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya, to their mother Sagarika Chakrabarty. The children were caught in a custody battle over one year which snowballed into a diplomatic row between India and Norway. The children had been placed under the care of the Norwegian authorities. Now the child panel, responding to a petition filed by Sagarika,...

11:15 AM, Nov 09, 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

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

New Delhi: It was an emotional reunion the Bhattacharya family has been waiting. After nearly a year in foster care in Norway, two NRI children, separated from their parents on grounds of negligence, arrived in India to an emotional welcome following a prolonged custody battle and diplomatic pressure by India. The children - Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) - escorted by uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya and their Norwegian foster father were...

07:19 PM, Apr 24, 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

Reacting to the return of the kids from Norway to India, their father Anurup Bhattacharya has expressed his happiness. ...

11:56 AM, 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

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

Oslo: If all goes well for the Bhattacharya family, then a Norwegian court could send the two Indian children " Abhigyan and Aishwariya " with their uncle back home to India. A court judgment in favour got a major boost last week when the Norwegian Child Welfare Services said it was in the best interest of the children if they returned to India. The two children have been in the...

07:48 AM, Apr 23, 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

Seoul: India is keen to find an "amicable" and "good" solution to the custody battle of two young Indian children in Norway within the ambit of the law, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday told his Norwegian counterpart. Singh, who is in Seoul to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, met Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and said that he expected a decision on the issue within the ambit of the...

07:41 PM, Mar 26, 2012

Kolkata: A Kolkata-based NGO has appealed to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna to assist it in bringing back to India the two children who are in the midst of a custody row in Norway. The NGO, India's Smile, which had earlier urged the government to bring back Abhigyan (3) and Aishwaraya (1), children of Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, residing in Oslo, said it was willing to bear all expenses in...

10:20 AM, Mar 25, 2012

New Delhi: The custody battle of the two NRI children Abhigyan and Aishwarya has seen several twists in the past few days. Norway has said that they won't give the two children to their uncle even if he was willing to take them under his protection. The Norwegian authorities have said the parents and the uncle have changed their position many times in the recent days. Reidar Hjermann, the Ombudsman...

11:27 AM, Mar 23, 2012