Bhattacharya Family Norway

• Norway children back home: Top 10 developments

  The Norway nightmare, which lasted almost 12 months, has finally ended for the Indian family with toddlers Abhigyan and Aishwarya returning home today morning. The children landed in Delhi a little before 10 am with their paternal uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya, foster father and a case worker from Norway's Child Welfare Services (CWS). Here are the ...

• PM talks to Norway counterpart about custody row, stresses strong family values

  Dr Manmohan Singh has told the prime minister of Norway that he hopes there will be "a positive outcome" for the Indian parents fighting to bring their children back home from there. Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya have been trying their best to convince Norwegian officials that their young son and daughter should be released from foster care.

• Blog: Lessons for India from Norway custody row

  Public opinion is fickle. We all know that. One day people's hearts were going out to the parents whose kids were taken away by Norwegian authorities and now all of a sudden many have decided the parents should be left at the mercy of Norway's totalitarian family courts. Some didn't care from the start, because for them, Indians who make the choice...

• Custody battle: Huge setback for Indian couple; Norway says can't let children go back to family

  In a huge setback to the Indian couple fighting for the custody of their children in Norway, the Child Welfare Services (CWS) has categorically said the children cannot go back to family now and the case will be dropped.

• Yes, we still want our children to return to India, says father in Norway custody row

  The Indian government will today talk to the parents of two young children whose custody has turned into a diplomatic stress-point between Norway and India. The Indian ambassador in Oslo will ask Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya whether they want their children to return to India, as they have demanded for months. If Sagarika and Anurup say that th...

• Norway custody row: 'It was a test for me, did it for my family,' says children's uncle

  Much to the relief of NRI couple Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya, child welfare officials in Norway have decided that they will recommend in court that their children, who have been in foster care since May last year, now be placed in the custody of their uncle, Arunabhas Bhattacharya. One-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan were taken ...

• Norway custody row: India will get children back at any cost, says Krishna

  The Bhattacharya family's battle to get the custody of their children in Norway seems to be getting longer. The family was hoping that India's special envoy's presence in Norway will bring One-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan to their parents Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya sooner. But that is not going to happen.

• Custody row: Norway to ask Indian authorities for guarantees, say sources

  Sources have told NDTV that Norway will seek guarantees from Indian authorities that the uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya's financial needs are met. Norwegian authorities also want to ensure that Arunabhash will keep custody and other family members, including grandparents or parents, will not get the children.

• Norway Custody row: Foster homes - Child welfare or lucrative business?

  As the Bhattacharyas wait for Norway to take a decision on the return their children to India, more people are speaking out against the foster care system in Norway. Activists say a very large number of children are taken away from their families every year and many expats lose their children forever because they are not as lucky as the Bhattachary...

• Norway custody row: Top 10 developments

  For Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya, their Norway nightmare has seemed endless. After many months of uncertainty, Norway now says it is working with a March-end time-frame for the custody row over the Bhattacharyas' two toddlers, placed in foster care by that country's child welfare authorities who say the parents are not fit to bring them up.

• Custody row: Grandparents to protest at Norway embassy in Delhi

  The grandparents of three -year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya, the two Indian children who were taken away from their parents in May last year by the Norwegian child welfare services, have decided to bring their protest against the custody battle to Delhi. They say they will go on a four-day dharna outside the Norway embassy in Delhi from...

• Norway custody row: 'They watched us as we met our children'

  Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya met their children after three months on Friday. For about an hour and five minutes it was family time as usual. They held the toddlers, fed them and played with them. Then, it was time to go. For the Bhattacharyas are allowed to meet their children only once in three months.

• Indian couple's Norway nightmare: Family appeals to President to intervene

  As an Indian couple battles in Norway for the custody of their two children - taken away and sent to foster care by the Child Protective Services - the grandparents of the children, accompanied by CPM leader Brinda Karat, met President Pratibha Patil today. "This is a kind of kidnapping. They are refusing to co-operate with the Indian government....