Indian officials head to Norway for custody hearing NEW DELHI: Ahead of the hearing on the custody row involving two NRI children in Norway,two senior MEA officials left for the country on directions of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and will be attending the custody hearing on March 23 in Stavanger. NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharyas children,Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1),were taken away last year by Barnevarne (Norwegian Child Welfare Services),which claimed emotional disconnect with the parents,and placed them in foster parental care. Remand of Italian marines extended KOLLAM: The judicial remand of two marines of Italian ship Enrica Lexie,charged with killing two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast on February 15,were extended to another 14 days by a court here on Monday. The marines,Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone,were brought from the central prison in Thiruvananthapuram and produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate A K Gopakumar. Lecturer held in Orissa for fraud NEW DELHI: Avinash Kumar Pundir (44),a PhD and a lecturer in Sociology at Meerut University,was arrested after a raid in Bhubaneshwar on Saturday for his alleged involvement in two cheating rackets wherein he,along with his wife and an associate,reportedly cheated about 16 persons to the tune of a few crore rupees. Pundir was sent to judicial custody. Ganga activist at AIIMS ALLAHABAD: Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand (formerly Prof G D Agarwal,environmentalist) was on Monday taken to All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi from Shiv Prasad Gupta (SPG) Hospital in Varanasi after he suffered a mild heart attack. His overall condition was stable. Swami Sanand (80) has been on a fast-unto-death in Varanasi since March 9,demanding stoppage of work on 11 power projects coming up over the Ganga in Uttarakhand. Cop files FIR against Akhil Gogoi Guwahati: Dulen Chandra Deka,deputy superintendent of police,filed an FIR against RTI activist Akhil Gogoi,accusing him of kicking him on the face while he was on duty during a demonstration near the state Assembly here on Monday. Gold Sukh scam: 5 held brought to Delhi NEW DELHI: Five absconding directors of a Jaipur-based investment company,Gold Sukh Trade India Private Limited,which allegedly duped over 1 lakh people in India,were flown to Delhi from Kuala Lumpur on Monday evening.
