Norway Custody Battle

• A mother's battle for her children, begun in Norway, stretches in India

  The Calcutta High Court today ruled that the two siblings brought from Norway after a raging custody battle last year could stay with their mother tonight. The final order would be passed tomorrow.

• Norway custody row: After eight months, mother gets custody of children

  Eight months after her children returned to India after a lengthy legal battle in Norway, Sagarika Bhattacharya will be able to take them home. The 30-year-old had been granted custody of her son Abhigyan and her daughter Aishwarya by the Calcutta High Court.

• Norway custody row ends; children arrive in India with uncle

  After spending nearly a year in foster care in Norway, toddlers Abhigyan and Aishwarya are home. They arrived at the Delhi airport a little before 10 am today with their uncle, Arunabhas Bhattacharya; they are expected to leave for Kolkata tomorrow. The children's paternal grandparents received them at the airport.

• Norway custody row: Court verdict on children likely today

  Will the children of the NRI couple, engaged in a custody battle in Norway, return to their homeland? After several twists and turns in the case, a Norwegian court is expected to deliver its verdict today to finally settle the row.

• Norway custody row: Indian government and parents reconcile

  After hitting near-crisis mode, India's case to bring back two young children placed in foster care in Norway appears to be back on track. Sources say that the Indian government has finalized the terms of the children's care when they are sent back here. As discussed earlier, one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan will be placed in th...

• 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.

• Custody row: Two senior govt officials to leave for Norway ahead of hearing

  Two senior officials from the Ministry of External Affairs will leave for Norway ahead of the hearing in the custody row involving Indian couple's two children. An additional secretary and a joint secretary will be in Stavenger in Norway before the court hearing scheduled case next week. The Indian couple - Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya - are fi...

• Custody row: Norway authorities seek legal guarantees from India

  In what seems as yet another obstruction in the custody battle of one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan, Norwegian child welfare authorities have sought fresh legal guarantees and assurances from India on "urgent basis".

• Relief for NRI couple in Norway; uncle to get custody of children

  In a big diplomatic win for India, the Child Welfare Services (CWS) of Norway has recommended that the custody of two children of the Indian couple, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, should be given to the uncle, Arunabhash Bhattacharya. The court will take the final decision on the custody battle on March 23.

• 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: 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: Parents to meet children on Friday

  The Indian couple fighting a custody battle with the Norway authorities will be allowed to meet their children on Friday.

• Indian couple's nightmare: Norwegian envoy meets SM Krishna

  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 - External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is expected to speak to his counterpart in Norway today.

• Indian couple's Norway nightmare: SM Krishna urges envoy to lodge protest

  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 - External Affairs Minister SM Krishna today called the Indian ambassador in Norway and urged him to speak to the Norwegian Foreign envoy demanding the kids be sent back to their parents. Mr Krishna has a...

• Nightmare in Norway: Indian couple fights to get children back

  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 on Saturday.