Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar takes us through former president Dr Kalam's museum, situated in his hometown Rameswaram, and brings forth some never-seen-before facets of the life and times of one of India's greatest contemporary visionaries.
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.
Computers, Kalam said were going to give us a challenge. Not only the biologists, neurologists and psychologists but the entire scientific community would have greater responsibility of keeping mankind above man-made computers.
Laying emphasis on agriculture and allied sectors, social sector, infrastructure and e-governance President A P J Abdul Kalam on Tuesday unveiled 10 missions for transforming Bihar into a developed state by year 2015.
Kalam was concerned about the huge gap between the number of arrests made and the actual conviction.
The invitation to teach at Peking University was extended to Kalam by its chairman Zhu Shanlu when he met the former Indian president on Thursday night
Noting that India's civilisation is more than 5,000 years old, the President said many of the manuscripts were yet to be recovered, deciphered and analysed.
The President told a joint session of Parliament that roads need to be developed in the north east.
The President felt many students find a disconnect between what they learn at school and what they do in a job.
President A P J Abdul Kalam Friday set a vision for turning Bihar into a developed state by 2015 through tapping of natural resources and human capital.
"Everyone should listen to their conscience before doing anything. Youth and children should come forward and help in eradicating corruption from the country," Kalam said while delivering valedictory address at the National Summit on National Value Crisis and Redressal in New Delhi.
Razi will arrive in Delhi on Friday, official sources said.
President A P J Abdul Kalam receives Id greetings from a large number of visitors at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi, on Monday.
References to freedom fighter and India's first education minister Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
'Agni Prime', the new-generation ballistic missile, was successfully flight-tested from an island off the Odisha coast on Thursday, officials said.
While nation mourns the death of the "People's President", an orphaned girl from a far flung village of Odisha remembers the gesture of A P J Abdul Kalam towards her HIV positive siblings ten years ago.
"Another measure of our nation's strength is the effective, firm and fair handling of a series of internal low intensity conflicts and proxy war," he said.
He has engagements in Mysore, Pahalgaon and Ahmedabad.
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday said that though the country had missed the opportunity of partnering the human genome project, it should become a partner in the proteomics project for gene characterisation.
The IT community to devise a Braille keyboard with necessary software to convert Braille inputs into text and speech in Indian languages.
Former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to induct A P J Abdul Kalam as a minister in the NDA government in 1998, an offer Kalam declined, four years before he became the President in 2002.
Memories of an Incredible Indian, the likes of whom we will never see again.
The President had come to visit the Pravara Medical Trust campus in Loni in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra and interacted with local farmers through teleconference.
Key United Progressive Alliance ally Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Friday said naming of A P J Abdul Kalam in the Presidential race has led to chaos and reaffirmed its support to the Congress' candidate.
"It is wrong information. I can say only this. He (Kalam) is our (TMC-SP) candidate in the presidential election. There is no ego, no quarrel, no fight," Mamata Banerjee told reporters seeking to dismiss persistent reports that the SP was no longer keen on backing Kalam
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President Kalam's name appears on a notice board at DDA's Siri Fort Sports Complex in a list of around 900 people who have defaulted on payment of membership fees.
After Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the Moon, the Congress on Wednesday said it is a collective success of every Indian and ISRO's achievement reflects a saga of continuity and is truly fantastic.
Details of what transpired at the 30-minute meeting have been revealed by P M Nair, who served as secretary to Kalam from 2002 to 2007, in his book The Kalam Effect: My years with the President. Musharraf was on a day's visit on April 17, 2005, to witness the India-Pakistan one-day cricket match.
Staff working at the Rashtrapati Bhavan recount how the 11th president lived a simple lifestyle and always cared for them.
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday made an impassioned plea to Indian entrepreneurs to share their knowledge and expertise to help start a "well synchronised" economic revolution and make India a developed nation.
"We want a person like Abdul Kalam who is impartial and has a stature," she said.
He said a network of sensors along with infra-based cameras should be placed at strategic positions along the borders to guard against infiltration. BSF should consider utilisation of recently-launched CARTOSAT-2A satellite designed by ISRO for scene-specific spot imageries with high spatial resolution of better than one metre, he added.
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