Norway Kids Custody Row

Within a month of their return to India, two NRI children, who were earlier taken into foster-care by the Norwegian Childcare Services, find themselves in a new controversy -- their families have filed police complaints against each other alleging threats to kill.

The chances of two NRI children returning to India has brightened with the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (CWS), which has kept them in foster care, submitting in a court in Oslo that there is no need to uphold the care order and it was in the best interest of the kids to return to their home country.

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...

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...

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

The Ministry of External Affairs has summoned the Norwegian envoy in connection with the custody of the children of the NRI couple who have been detained by the Norwegian authorities.

Senior Left leader Brinda Karat today met Foreign Minister SM Krishna along with the parents of the two Indian children detained by Norway authorities.

The uncle of the two Indian children who were taken away from their parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Services met one of the children today.

Two young Indian children who were separated from their parents in Norway by local child welfare services will be handed over to a family member. The agreement between the governments of India, Norway and the parents, will end weeks of a custody row that became a diplomatic stress-test for the two countries.

Within a month of their return to India, two NRI children, who were earlier taken into foster-care by the Norwegian Childcare Services, find themselves in a new controversy -- their families have filed police complaints against each other alleging threats to kill.

The chances of two NRI children returning to India has brightened with the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (CWS), which has kept them in foster care, submitting in a court in Oslo that there is no need to uphold the care order and it was in the best interest of the kids to return to their home country.

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...

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...

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

The Ministry of External Affairs has summoned the Norwegian envoy in connection with the custody of the children of the NRI couple who have been detained by the Norwegian authorities.

Senior Left leader Brinda Karat today met Foreign Minister SM Krishna along with the parents of the two Indian children detained by Norway authorities.

The uncle of the two Indian children who were taken away from their parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Services met one of the children today.

Two young Indian children who were separated from their parents in Norway by local child welfare services will be handed over to a family member. The agreement between the governments of India, Norway and the parents, will end weeks of a custody row that became a diplomatic stress-test for the two countries.