Shambhavi, who was invited by President A P J Abdul Kalam to Rashtrapati Bhavan as a 13 year old, remembers the meeting with awe and pays tribute to the man who inspired her.
'He was one of us. He was a perfect Indian. He breathed India, he wore India's core values. His faith was India. We will miss you sir.'
'Our education system keeps churning out graduates who remain unemployed whereas we have an unprecedented and robust job market which is crying out for skills. I think this is the fundamental problem. In my view, the remedy is to redesign education and its delivery to overcome skills shortages. We need to prepare our education system for the 21st century.'
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has launched a fortnightly e-paper Billion Beats to 'highlight the stories of India's islands of success and to establish knowledge connectivity'.
One person was killed and another injured in fresh violence on Thursday in the Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts in Assam as authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in Kokrajhar town. Unidentified people shot dead one Nirisun Basumatary, at Telipara in Kokrajhar district on Thursday morning, police sources said.
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The probe pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian Private Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper.
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam felicitated the six winners.
In the wake of terrorist attacks in the capital and other parts of the country, former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Monday asked management students to study the factors behind scourge and launch a national campaign against the menace.
The high point of the President's visit was the signing of three important agreements in natural gas, satellite-based remote sensing and promotion of Buddhist studies.
The West Bengal government scheduled the hanging of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in her Kolkata home, on August 14 after President A P J Abdul Kalam rejected his mercy plea.
He will be among 2,500 people, including eminent bureaucrats, top police officials, noted journalists, politicians and diplomatic corps, who will gather on the picturesque lawns of Rashtrapati Bhavan for the 'At Home' function.
'We as citizens should be bothered about how a former President is treated. It is about the institution of the Presidency and not about any individual.'
He may address a convocation at the Jammu University, meet some individuals in Srinagar and visit a school, sources said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party said on Monday that the National Democratic Alliance would seek the intervetion of President A P J Abdul Kalam to prosecute all those involved in the 1984 anti-sikh riots.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesman said the President had talked to the chief minister two days ago also on the same issue.
Modi spoke to the BJP's longest serving president, who is credited with crafting the party's rise through the 90s when it came to power for the first time as the head of coalition governments under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and congratulated him.
Engagement with neighbours is a strategic imperative, and not an option, asserts Rup Narayan Das.
Sources said gunmen of VIP guests are normally not allowed into the area.
President Abdul Kalam and Union Home Minister L K Advani will call on him on Friday.
Lula arrived in India with a large business delegation to forge closer "strategic" and trade ties between the two emerging powerhouses.
The Lok Sabha speaker also expressed shock and sorrow over the loss of innocent lives in the explosions.
The legislation was sent to Kalam on August one after Parliament re-enacted it without any changes.
Tolerant Muslims can be counted on fingers. I think their number is not even in the thousands, the Union minister of state for law and justice said.
President A P J Abdul Kalam has favoured India and IBM jointly developing and marketing nano computers.
President A P J Abdul Kalam congratulated Dravid for leading his team to a series win.
Kalam had sent Guru's mercy plea to the home ministry for its views.
"We will not support Kalam. He has lost place in my heart," Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said.
So far, all those Vice-Presidents who ran for the Presidency, have been successful in reaching Raisina Hill.
A distinguished jurist and former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, 75-year-old Venkatachaliah was presented the prestigious Padma Vibhushan by President Kalam.
Denying reports that Anna Hazare had close connections with the late Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha leader Nanaji Deshmukh, key Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said it was part of Congress' "tactics" to divert attention from the Lokpal Bill.
The letter states plans to eliminate Sonia Gandhi and President Kalam.
The key UNPA meet has decided to consult experts on the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal.
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