Four Croatian couples were arrested for a second time at an airport in Zambia on suspicion of child trafficking after coming to adopt four children from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Eight Croats were arrested for a second time on Tuesday at Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Ndola, the third largest city in Zambia, after coming to the country to pick up four children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year to adopt.

They were initially arrested on December 9 last year at the airport in Ndola as they attempted to leave the country with the children and accused of attempted child trafficking.

But the court in Ndola dismissed the indictment against the eight Croats, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman told reporters on January 6.

On Monday they were ordered to leave Zambia within 48 hours, Croatian news agency HINA reported.

ISRC has been FFIA's cooperation contact since 1983. The then orphanage director Chandana Bose had contact with Bie and Gunilla Enqvist in Umeå in connection with their adoption and was looking for cooperation partners in Sweden. In the first years, Bie and Gunilla were involved as contact persons, but during the 90s this changed. Chandana Bose passed away in 1998 and after that her sister-in-law Madhumita (Anju) Roy came as headmistress.

ISRC runs the Mathri Sneha orphanage, which has been located at several different addresses over the years.

The children mediated through this contact were usually abandoned at birth. Many children were premature, i.e. born too early. The children may also have had a low birth weight. The mothers were predominantly unmarried women and the background documents available on the children are very scarce.

Most of the children have come to the orphanage as newborns. They came directly from the maternity wards of the hospitals to Matri Sneha. In India, an investigation is always carried out based on the various circumstances surrounding the child's background. The investigation must show whether the child has a relative who can take care of the child or whether the child can get a new family through adoption. The Indian adoptive families always have priority, which results in the majority of the smallest and perfectly healthy children having parents within the country. A child who, for example, was born prematurely or had problems with his health as a small baby is often considered for international adoption.

Period of cooperation: 1983 - the system was changed by CARA in 2012

The police told the court that the custodial interrogation of both the accused was needed as a fresh complaint of organ trafficking was lodged against them by a Chandigarh-based woman.

The ongoing investigations by Mohali police into the alleged newborn stealing racket saw more skeletons tumbling out of the closet, with investigators on Tuesday stating that they were now studying the possible involvement of a Non-Government Organisation.

Investigators said that the role of some police officers posted at the Criminal Investigation Agency had also come under the scanner after they learnt that a Chandigarh-based woman had lodged a complaint with Mohali district police last year alerting them about the possibility of existence of such a racket. However, no action was taken.

The district police on January 30 had arrested Manjinder Singh, and his wife Parwinder Kaur — both residents of Faridkot — and Charanbir Singh, and his wife Sakshi, both residents of Patiala, for being part of a racket that was involved in stealing and selling newborns.

Police said that Parvinder Kaur alias Sakshi and her husband Charanbir Singh were produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Jagjeet Singh on Tuesday and were sent to two additional days of police remand.

Flemish Minister of Welfare, Public Health and Family Hilde Crevits is strengthening care and guidance during adoption and is investing 425,000 euros in this. The aim is to make society more aware of intercountry adoption and also to offer more opportunities for the exchange of experiences between first parents, adoptive parents and fellow sufferers. The guidance process when adoptees go in search of their origin will also be strengthened. In this way, Minister Crevits meets some of the recommendations of a 'care and guidance' working group that was set up in response to the final report of the expert panel on intercountry adoption.

“A great job has been done by all those involved to provide us with very concrete proposals for better care and supervision of adoption. We will ensure that there are more opportunities to exchange experiences and to strengthen knowledge about adoption into education and assistance. In this way we want to avoid that those involved in adoption, foster care and other forms of growing up outside the original family are sometimes approached on the basis of erroneous assumptions or social ideas, which could lead to new and avoidable difficulties. In addition, it is also important that people can share their positive stories and their concerns. The question “who am I” and “where do I come from” sooner or later preoccupies every adoptee. We are therefore strengthening the ancestry center in order to provide even better assistance to people who are looking for their roots or close relatives.” –Flemish Minister of Welfare and Public Health Hilde Crevits

The final report of an expert panel on intercountry adoption in mid-2021 gave rise to a number of recommendations for reforms within the adoption landscape. The Flemish Government then set the guidelines for the future of intercountry adoption. This is also followed by Growing up. An important theme is better care and guidance. A working group led by Professor Nicole Vliegen set to work on this and provided very concrete recommendations, some of which Minister Crevits wants to implement immediately.

A better understanding of adoption

Minister Crevits has instructed the Adoption Support Center to further deepen knowledge about adoption in Flanders. The theme of adoption must be more strongly embedded in education and assistance, among other things, so that teachers and care providers can deal more sensitively with questions from children and young people with an adoption story. With the resources, the Adoption Support Center will be able to recruit additional employees who, together with adoptees, will introduce professionals to certain sensitivities specific to adopted children and specific themes such as racism and diversity through training and workshops. In this way, therapists and primary care providers, among others, can better pick up signals when they come into contact with them in the event of a request for help.

In 1965, Sita Devi Sachdev (Dr Sita Bhateja’s maiden name) started a nursing home in her own name. In 1969, a charitable trust was established under the name of Dr (Mrs) Sita Bhateja Nursing Home. The hospital building and all the equipment were donated to the trust, as was 50% of Dr Sita Bhateja’s income. The charitable wing of the trust was christened Sri Jetha Nand Hospital for the Poor, in memory of Dr Sita Bhateja’s father-in-law, who along with his wife, donated money to help establish the hospital.Thus, our hospital came to be. Over the next two decades, spearheaded by Dr Sita Bhateja, the nursing home established a formidable reputation for expertise in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (her chosen field).

It was in our 38th year that Sita Bhateja Hospital entered a new and exciting phase with its expansion into specialities other than OB/GYN. Spearheaded by Dr Arvind Bhateja, an accomplished neurosurgeon (and Dr Sita Bhateja’s son), we have expanded into the specialities of neuro and spine surgery, orthopaedics, intensive care, internal medicine, urology, plastic surgery and maxillofacial surgery.

The surgical specialities are housed in a new operation theatre complex of world standards with state-of-the-art features like seamless interiors, hermetically sealed doors and windows and laminar air flow. We have the technology to perform minimally invasive brain and spine surgery through keyhole approaches. Our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is fully equipped for the proper post-operative care of patients and for patients with head injuries and critical illnesses. Our new Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department has been designed and built with a view to the holistic recovery of a patient.

All this world-class infrastructure is manned by a team of experts who are highly skilled in their specialities and who have been weaned on Dr Sita Bhateja’s philosophy of empathetic healthcare for every patient.

In just under eight years, led by Dr Arvind Bhateja, we have completed well over three thousand successful procedures and have acquired a sterling reputation for medical excellence in our specialities.

A Chinese man who was abducted as a toddler and later adopted by a billionaire family has been found by his birth family, whom he has chosen to return to.

Mei Zhiqiang, 27, was 2 years old when he was abducted by human traffickers from outside his home in Yunnan province in southwestern China in 1997.

Mei was reportedly sold to a family that abandoned him because he was “too thin and small” before he was adopted by a wealthy family reportedly worth billions in southeastern China’s Fujian province.

He subsequently grew up with two older sisters and a younger brother, who were all biological children of his adoptive parents.

Mei reportedly did not attend university after he graduated from secondary school, opting instead to work at his adoptive parents’ hospital.

It’s been over five years since a case was filed against independent journalist Neha Dixit for criminal defamation and promoting “disharmony, enmity, hatred or ill-will” through a five-part series she wrote for Outlook magazine in 2016.

Since then, the case has been listed approximately 40 times in the Gauhati High Court. Dixit has spent over Rs 3 lakh on legal and travel fees, has appeared in the high court five times, and, she said, has received no support from Outlook in the process.

“The process is the punishment,” Dixit told Newslaundry, “because it is harassment in a way.”

The series in question was Outlook’s cover story in its July 29, 2016 edition. Titled “Operation #BetiUthao”, it uncovered how the Sangh Parivar “flouted every Indian and international law on child right to traffic 31 young tribal girls from Assam to Punjab and Gujarat to ‘Hinduise’ them”.

Days later, on August 6 that year, then assistant solicitor general SC Koyal and BJP spokesperson Bijon Mahajan filed a criminal complaint against Dixit under sections 153A (promoting disharmony, enmity, etc) and 499 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code.

During his career, the new Chief Justice of India has been part of several constitution benches & delivered landmark judgments in high-profile cases, like Ayodhya land title dispute.

New Delhi: Whether he concurs or dissents, either way, his judgments evoke a keen interest. His verdicts are an assertion of constitutional principles — stressing on acceptance of diversity and inclusivity — and speak of him as a true liberal who is extremely sensitive and empathetic towards marginalised sections of society.

However, at the same time, he is equally conscious of maintaining judicial decorum and refrains from breaching the “lakshman rekha” (a strict boundary never to be crossed) when it comes to deciding on policy matters or development projects. Here he chooses to indulge in a deliberative process with the executive, nudging and not directing it to follow judicial orders.

This is how the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, is defined by his college mates, law teachers, and bar as well as bench colleagues.

Sworn in Wednesday by President Droupadi Murmu, Chandrachud, who will turn 63 on 11 November, will have a two-year term in the CJI’s office. Not only will he have the longest tenure for a CJI in a while, he will also be the youngest one in office in the past 10 years.

The sources added that it became a surprise for the lawyers in the apex court corridors, when the CJI came to the first court with his two daughters.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI), Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, on Friday brought his two foster daughters to visit the Supreme Court.

According to top court sources familiar with the development, at around 10 a.m., the CJI brought his two daughters, who are differently-abled, to the courtroom from the public gallery.

The sources added that it became a surprise for the lawyers in the apex court corridors, when the CJI came to the first court with his two daughters.

A source said that Chandrachud could be heard telling his daughters, "See, that is where I sit", as he took them on a tour of the apex court premises.

New Delhi, Nov 9 (UNI) Known for

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of speech and expression, and upholds the

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Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant