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.
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 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
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.
Razi will arrive in Delhi on Friday, official sources said.
"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.
President A P J Abdul Kalam receives Id greetings from a large number of visitors at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi, on Monday.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
DRDO's failures over the decades have contributed significantly to India becoming the world's biggest weapons importer, points out Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd).
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.
Shami was there to receive the honours. He took 24 wickets in seven World Cup games last year.
The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi high court refused to grant protection to the AAP national convenor from any coercive action by the agency.
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.
President A P J Abdul Kalam left New Delhi on Saturday on a week-long visit to the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Bulgaria, his first foreign tour after assuming the high office.
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.
'Our education policy should ensure that India is transformed into a developed nation,' the President said while giving national awards to 282 teachers on the occasion of Teachers' Day.
"I love the full moon night in the sandy desert and wish to spend time there alone and I love Pokharan because it is a\ntheatre of action and liberty," he said during an interactive session with about 600 school children in Jaipur.
President Kalam, while interacting with trainees at the Infosys' Global Education Centre in Mysore, acknowledged that Murthy's appointment to the top post would be 'fantastic.'
Shivraj Patil, who is most likely to succeed Kalam, has listed his interests as shooting and horse-riding.
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