Observing that good governance was being recognised as an important goal by many countries, the President said the Internet revolution has proved to be a powerful tool for good governance initiatives.
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President Kalam asked for a united front against terror in all forms.
Police suspect that one of the persons who visited the blast site at the Prithviraj Road two hours prior to the incident had come from Jamia Nagar in southeast Delhi.
Advani said that Kalam could have returned Buta Singh's letter.
President A P J Abdul Kalam had a narrow escape when a portion of the ceiling of a room collapsed a few feet away from where he was standing during his visit to the Koodankulan nuclear plant.
'What did he (Kalam) know about extracting, making explosive grade? He didn't know a thing. By being a President, he appeared to wear the stature. He relied on atomic energy to gain additional stature,' said Sethna about Kalam while talking to CNN-IBN.
The outlay for the President, his secretariat and household establishment has been pegged at Rs 17.33 crore, an increase of Rs 38 lakh over the 2004-05 revised estimates.
A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced to death 15 persons associated with the now-banned Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party OBC wing leader Ranjith Sreenivasan in this district in 2021, the special prosecutor of the case said in Alappuzha.
All NDA leaders asserted the number of MLAs supporting them would not be less than 125, three more than the magic figure of 122 in the 243-member assembly.
"I got the report of the Election Commission and I am studying it," he told reporters
The President has said he would like to take up research after his tenure ends.
President Kalam was talking to students of the Government Higher Secondary School in Eintkhedi, near Bhopal, on the future of rural development
Farmers in Paliganj are 'immensely contributing' towards optimising foodgrain productivity, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said on Tuesday.
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'We were not protesting for a wage hike or provident fund. We were protesting for the safety of the larger population. There is no personal gain.'
The book - encompassing the ideals of Ashoka, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln - is simultaneously being published in Hindi.
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).
Abdullah is among a growing set of young Indian politicians who are active on the World Wide Web with social networking profiles and online portfolios used to connect mainly to the youths. The internet savvy 38-year-old National Conference president said he will put a system in place so that the general public could directly send him e-mails.
President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the Indian companies on Friday to tap the vast potential for health care products in the international market by maintaining competitive pricing and high quality.
The government will deal resolutely with any attempts to spread communal violence, he said in his address to the joint sitting of Parliament marking the commencement of the Budget session.
The assent converts the bill into a law, operative throughout the state with retroactive effect -- from September 23, 2000.
The President in his Independence Day eve speech said the government should increase expenditure on education to about six to seven per cent of GDP.
The President will visit J&K and Ladakh.
The state government had appointed Kalam as the first visitor of the proposed university under the University of Nalanda Act, 2007. The Bihar assembly unanimously approved the University of Nalanda Bill, 2007, in March 2007 for the setting up of an international university. The bill stated that the international university would strive to create a world free of war, terror and violence.
Children should take the lead in making India a developed and prosperous nation by 2020 and inspiring their parents to fight against the menace of corruption, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said on Friday. The former President, who interacted with the children after inaugurating a science exhibition, asked them to take a pledge to fight against corruption.
Turning Points, billed as a sequel to his bestselling autobiography Wings of Fire, brings together details from his career and presidency that are not generally known as he speaks out for the first time on certain points of the controversies, the book's publishers HarperCollins India said
Erstwhile Indian president A P J Abdul Kalam, will return to the United States for a second time in as many months, this time to celebrate his 76th birthday on October 15 by participating as chief guest in the JSS Spiritual Mission's anniversary celebrations in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Noting India's need to raise power generation capacity to four lakh MW by 2030, President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday sought 'intensive cooperation' with the European Union in the field of energy, including nuclear, to help achieve the goal.
'This can lift us out of confusion, misery, melancholy and failure, and indeed guide us when it is contacted.' 'For us to ignite our spirituality, we need to look inward and transcend our egos. We need to recognize, connect with and integrate the eternal spirit within,' says A P J Abdul Kalam in his latest book, Transcendence.
'The more educated a young person is, the higher the chances of him or her remaining unemployed.'
The President, at the banquet held in honour of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, said the epicentre of terrorism is in Indias neighbourhood.\n\n
