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.
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.
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.
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.
He may address a convocation at the Jammu University, meet some individuals in Srinagar and visit a school, sources said.
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam felicitated the six winners.
'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.'
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.
Experts speculated that they could be either meteorites entering the Earth's atmosphere or the pieces of rocket boosters which fall off after a satellite launch.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesman said the President had talked to the chief minister two days ago also on the same issue.
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.
The Lok Sabha speaker also expressed shock and sorrow over the loss of innocent lives in the explosions.
Bharat Rashtra Samiti leader K Kavitha is expected to be produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court by the Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi on Saturday for obtaining her remand for custodial interrogation in the money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22, officials said.
The legislation was sent to Kalam on August one after Parliament re-enacted it without any changes.
'In today's launch, the 'Pralay' missile was tested for heavier payload and different range to prove the precision and lethality of the weapon'
Lula arrived in India with a large business delegation to forge closer "strategic" and trade ties between the two emerging powerhouses.
President A P J Abdul Kalam has favoured India and IBM jointly developing and marketing nano computers.
Considering the competition, engineering aspirants should ideally consider taking a minimum of five to seven entrance exams to maximise their chances of success and broaden their options when it comes to college, says rediffGURU Nayagam PP.
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.
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.
So far, all those Vice-Presidents who ran for the Presidency, have been successful in reaching Raisina Hill.
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.
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.
President Kalam has sent a personally drafted letter to rediff.com, personally thanking our readers for the goodwill gesture
Seven of the 30 most-admired people on the planet are Indians. Now, isn't that cool?
ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C6, carrying India's remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-1 and a micro satellite HAMSAT, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Thursday.
A timeline of his life and times as India's pre-eminent defence scientist and one of the country's most popular Presidents
The new Patents Law, which was passed by Parliament in the third week of March, came into force on Tuesday with President A P J Abdul Kalam giving his assent.
