Norwegian Child Welfare Services

• 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 ...

• Return to India in best interest of NRI kids: Norway authorities to court

  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.

• Norway custody row: Crucial hearing begins for NRI couple

  Today is a crucial day for the Bhattacharyas whose children were taken away by the Norwegian child welfare services in May last year. A Stavanger district court has begun hearing their case that will decide the fate of their children who are presently placed under foster care.

• Norway Child Welfare Service recommends uncle to get custody of children

  The Norwegian Child Welfare Service has said that it will recommend that the uncle should take over the care of the two Indian children, who were put away in foster care in May 2011. Three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya may be able to return to India with their paternal uncle Dr Arunabhas Bhattacharya who is a dentist in Asansol.

• Read: Letter by Norwegian Child Welfare Services

  In a fresh letter written to the embassy of India, the Child Welfare Services have asked for legal documents guaranteeing that appropriate care and treatment would be given to the boy who has special needs.

• Norway custody row: Authorities apply for short-term resident permit for children without parents' consent

  In a setback for the NRI couple fighting for the custody of their children in Norway, authorities there have applied for a short-term resident permit for the children without the parents' consent. The Norwegian child welfare services, which is currently looking after the children, has directly approached the country's immigration office for the per...

• 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: Abhigyan was traumatised, says uncle who met him

  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.