Rajnath to visit US for Afghan conclave
Washington: BJP president Rajnath Singh will visit the US this week to present his party’s view on the situation in Afghanistan at a conference besides meeting a host of lawmakers, think tanks and noted Indian Americans. On a maiden week-long visit to the country in his capacity as the president of the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Singh will arrive here on July 20 and is scheduled to spend most of his time in Washington from July 21 to July 25.
5-month-old baby abducted in Delhi
New Delhi: A five-month-old baby boy was abducted by a woman in her late 20s from an ESI Hospital in West Delhi’s Moti Nagar on Wednesday afternoon. “The boy’s mother, Soni Sharma, had brought him to ESI Hospital in Moti Nagar for a medical check-up. Her eight-year-old son, Ashu, was also with her when an unknown woman took away the baby after befriending them,” a senior police officer said. Police said when Ashu was carrying the baby and his mother had gone the pharmacy, the unknown woman came to him, took the baby in her lap. “The woman gave Ashu Rs 10 to buy potato chips and by the time he returned she had escaped with the baby,” the officer added. A case of kidnapping has been registered at Moti Nagar police station of West Delhi and further investigation is on.