President A P J Abdul Kalam will visit Amritsar on Tuesday to attend the quadri-centennial celebrations of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib.
"Higher the number of creative minds, the faster India will transform into a developed nation," the former President told participants of "Imagine and Innovate", a contest for teens organised by the CII in Chennai.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Friday, October 7.
The text of President A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the joint sitting of Parliament.
The Supreme Court on Friday quashed the appointment of the vice chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in Thiruvananthapuram, terming it bad in law and contrary to UGC regulations.
It was indeed a poignant moment to see an uniformed Arjan Singh rising out of his wheelchair and using a walking stick to march up to President APJ Abdul Kalam's coffin
The four-year-old's vision was completely damaged when he was attacked by an unidentified person in October.
'I have trained Ravish Kumar, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan...' 'But if I approach somebody for work, I never get it.'
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday faced angry farmers in Nalanda, who pelted stones while demanding compensation from the state government for land acquisition for a proposed international university.
President A P J Abdul Kalam underscored the need to attain self-reliance in the infrastructural software sector with knowledge products, where the domain applications can be developed and deployed for services sector.
At the RN Kao Memorial Lecture organised by India's spy agency the Research and Analysis Wing, Former President A P J Abdul Kalam had some precise suggestions on how to tackle terror, face a cyber war and improve the quality of intelligence gathering in a rapidly changing world. Read the full speech here
Former president Dr Abdul Kalam has accepted an invitation of the Canada-India Foundation (CIF) to be the chief guest at their gala dinner on April 18 at Toronto's 'Liberty Grand' when this newly minted advocacy group will award Sam Pitroda their 'Chanchlani Global Indian Award'. The award will be in the form of a unique trophy accompanied with $50,000 that will go to the charity of the award recipient's choice, said CIF Convener Ajit Someswar.
Police on Wednesday arrested a youth in Indore in connection with an e-mail threat sent to President A P J Abdul Kalam.
It took several e-mails, but the students of Ved Vyasa School finally managed to got their man, in this case President A P J Abdul Kalam.
"Any judgment as per the law of the country will be processed and carried out. Law is the final authority," Kalam firmly told media persons on Saturday night while returning from Athens.
This is the complete text of President A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the nation on the eve of the 56th Republic Day.
The Gujarat chief minister said NGOs and human rights bodies do not even hesitate to point fingers at the judiciary.
'When a Project Director is appointed, the whole organization -- including the Chairman ISRO -- works for his success. It is a lesson that has been of abiding value all through the other projects I have worked on,' recalls the late President, one of the earliest pioneers at ISRO.
'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.'
As the race for the President reaches it non-exciting climax, it is clear that no political constituent is winning with dignity, says Sheela Bhatt.
'Whether it was a bureaucratic or the translator's mistake, it had to be corrected as Indian Republic was based on separation of religion from the state.
Missile man and former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Sunday said the country is suffering from the 'fifth nation syndrome' as it is always the fourth or fifth nation to launch any mission like the space mission or nuclear programme.
President A P J Abdul Kalam's Website registered a record 1 crore hits on August 15.
"The whole war environment will be a network centric and it could be electronically controlled combined with space encounters, deep sea encounters and ballistic missiles," the President observed.
"In order to contain terrorism, the police force will have to create a new cadre trained in low intensity warfare and equipped with state of the art technologies," he said.
In the address, the President dwelt on a wide range of issues facing the country and depicted the 'ambience in the nation (in) 2007' and the one that was possible in 2020.
Central Mumbai on Friday witnessed traffic snarls due to security measures in view of the public meeting of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and a rally by Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar besides President Kalam's visit to the city.
"I will let you know what's on my mind on April 28 on return to India."
The BJP is a divided house on whether to oppose Pranab Mukherjee or not. Mamata Banerjee has been totally isolated and only the Congress seems to be on a strong wicket, says Neerja Chowdhury.
Taking up the campaign for APJ Abdul Kalam online, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said her choice of the Presidential candidate was the choice of millions of Indians.
Sharing concern over rising prices particularly food articles, President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said the government would take all steps to keep inflation under check while ensuring job-oriented nine per cent growth during 11th Plan period.
Paperless scheme for policy documents, called dematerialisation, will enable easy storage of policies by the policy holders, the President said.
False and acrimonious debates such as Modi versus Manmohan might allow for victories that are political and partisan. But the real loser is the nation, India and Bharat, notes Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic advisor to the Modi government in its first term.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav refused to offer any comment when asked what was his perception about the UNPA's meetings with the leaders of various political parties.
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