The special gesture has been made at the behest of Kalam, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesman said.
Ariel Sharon's three-day visit, the first by any Israeli PM, will be the first highest level contact between the countries after the then Israeli president Ezer Wiezman's 1997 tour.
Dr Parikh is a physician, activist and philanthropist.
He said the networking through EDUSAT was the first step towards creating universities that could meet the demands of the knowledge era.
A brainchild of President A P J Abdul Kalam, the pilot project for tele-education and tele-medicine under the Rs 542.9 crore (Rs 5.42 billion) pan-African programme was inaugurated by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin will also keynote the Indian Institute of Technology 2007 Global Alumni Conference titled 'Transforming the World through Technology' in California next month.
Kashmir Valley was rocked by violent protests after a Delhi Court on September 26 sentenced Afzal to death in Tihar Jail in Delhi.
She stressed that this was a 'purely personal decision'.
A Bangalore-based advocate filed a petition demanding Government take over the BCCI since it has taken a stand that it is a private club.
Selvi entered politics following the death of her husband Venkatesa Pannaiyar.
Atwal's protest came midway through the function in the historic Central Hall of Parliament, addressed by the President, the vice president, the prime minister and the Lok Sabha speaker.
President A P J Abdul Kalam gave away the awards to 58 eminent personalities from different walks of life at a glittering ceremony held at the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Hailing from the Nilambur royal family, Muraleedharan was just 21 when his aircraft was gunned down while flying over Peshawar
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Malik's earlier stint in New Delhi was as Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner between 1992 and 1995.
"They (Armed Forces) need to be reassured about the weapon system they use and about the planning of what kind of the yield they have when they hit the target," Malik, the army chief during Pokhran-II, told Karan Thapar on the Devil's Advocate programme of CNN-IBN.
Dr Singh on Wednesday said Lalu would not be asked to resign "for now".
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee is hurt over how the Election Commission played a "very, very dubious role" after then President A P J Abdul Kalam referred the Office of Profit issue to it acting on advice that was "not correct".
The AIIMS RDA and other students' organisations were planning to approach the President on the issue and could also move Supreme Court.
A letter has been sent to President A P J Abdul Kalam requesting postponement of the ceremony in view of the Olympics.
P M Ajayan, one of the top 50 scientific researchers in the US, holds forth on nanotech and how it can help India in energy and health care sectors.
Air India, having run up losses of Rs 7,200 crore and adding about Rs 15 crore worth of red ink every twenty-four hours, is now asking for even more money to burn from the Government of India.
President A P J Abdul Kalam Monday promised to take all "necessary action" in the wake of public outrage over the acquittal of all the accused in the Jessica Lal murder case.
It is convention that the Attorney General submits his resignation after the exit of the government that had appointed him.
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