Lucknow, Dec 22 :Former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Tuesday asked students in Uttar Pradesh to emulate a development model he had successfully implemented in Tamil Nadu years ago to bring urban amenities to rural areas.

Addressing the 7th convocation ceremony of the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU)here, Kalam sought to introduce the "Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas" (PURA) concept that he had experimented with at the Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women in the state's Tanjore district.

Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Sep 4 : Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday unveiled a vision document for the strategic development of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the year 2020.

Inaugurating a national seminar on ‘Security and Development of the Andaman and Nicobar islands’ here, Dr Kalam said that a 250 mw nuclear power station on one of the islands would form the core of the development programme.

New Delhi, July 23 : Reacting to former president APJ Abdul Kalam''s statement that he has not received any communication from Continental Airlines, the US-based airline today said that they want to apologise personally to him.

"Since he is not in Delhi, we are waiting for him to return so that we can apologise personally to Dr. Kalam," the airline said.

New Delhi, July 21 : Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was recently frisked by an international airline at Delhi''s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Kalam was travelling to the US about a month ago on Continental Airlines when the incident happened.

Sources at the airport said Continental Airlines employees frisked Kalam in what is called the second line of security check. He was made to take off his shoes and asked to wait before being frisked.

New Delhi, Jan. 7 : Some Pakistani individuals, who are on the prowl to hack important websites and misuse them by giving it Islamic or Pakistani colour, have targeted Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's famous community group on orkut, the social networking site.

New Delhi, Dec 9 : Former President and father of nuclear technology of India APJ Abdul Kalam has said that it is time that the UN action of counter terrorism is intensified creating a new counter terrorism force.

Addressing a gathering here last evening Kalam emphasised on the need of a unified force to counter terrorism across the globe.

Kathmandu, Nov 18 : Visiting Former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam today said that investment in education sector was essential for rural development without which achieving the development of Nepal was impossible.

Addressing the 14th convocation ceremony of Kathmandu University in Dhulikhel, Kavre, Dr. Kalam urged the Kathmandu University graduates to pay attention for development of rural areas of Nepal.

Citing the instance of India''s project for developing 6000 villages, he suggested that Nepal should launch similar projects in 4000 villages.

Former president A P J Abdul Kalam, who visited the Indian Deep Space Network and the giant antenna at Byalalu village near Bangalore on Saturday, said that every Indian should be proud of the space researchers who made the launch of Chandrayana- I, the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft, a successful attempt.

Dr. Kalam expressed his aspiration to see an Indian researcher land on the moon by 2021.

He told a gathering of senior scientists, “I would be 90 years old then.”

Opposition leader LK Advani has written a letter to former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam requesting him to build a national consensus on Terror and the need to effect strict anti-terror laws. 

New Delhi, Sept 22 : The former President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam on Monday launched first of its kind marketing board for the disabled Association for Rehabilitation under National Trust Initiative in Marketing (ARUNIM).

He also launched a helpline– Abiline (011-26166250) for the counseling of parents of disabled, Non Governmental Organisation (NGOs) and people with special needs. He also released a 32 pages booklet of National Trust in English and Telugu.

New Delhi, Sept 17 : Former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on Wednesday favoured an active teaching role for retired scientists in schools and colleges. 

He was delivering the inaugural address to an international workshop here today on “Emerging frameworks and issues for Science and Technology (S&T) recruitments”. He suggested scientific organisations to utilize their services. 

New Delhi, Sept 17 : Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has called for setting up a unified intelligence agency in India to fight terrorism in the wake of rising terror attacks in the country, the latest being last week''s Delhi blasts that left more than 20 people dead.

Speaking to reporters on the occasion of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in New Delhi on Wednesday, Kalam said that there is a need for making the citizens of the country a part of the fight against terrorism instead of merely being ''watched''.

Ahmedabad, Sept 13 : Former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam will take classes at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) from Saturday to November 
27 on energy security and water conservation among other key issues.

New Delhi, Sept 10 : Former President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated Organ Transplant and the Continuing Nursing Education at Ayurvigyan Auditorium of Army Hospital Research and Referral (R & R) here today.

New Delhi, Sept 7: Former President A. P. J. Adbul Kalam on Sunday said India can conduct nuclear tests in the supreme national interests, if the international situation warrants it.

He said this in a television interview, that no pact or treaty can come in the way. Terming the waiver granted by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in Vienna as a very important milestone for India, he said we should rejoice for this.

Kalam said the Indo-US nuclear deal does not mention nuclear tests. But if conducting a test is of prime national importance, we will conduct a test.

This could lead to two things, either the pact will collapse or it could survive if we can prove we have conducted a test for supreme reasons, he added.

NOIDA (Uttar Pradesh), Aug. 8 : Enthusiasm and euphoria filled the air at Amity University when former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam visited the Amity University Campus here and enlightened them about his vision for the future well-being of India.

Applauding the good work that Amity has been doing in the field of education and research, Dr. Kalam reiterated his faith in the information provided by the management that Amity would register 100 patents in coming 12 months.

Kapurthala, July 27 : Former president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam will visit Kali Bein in Punjab’s Kapurthala District today, to participate in the concluding function to mark the eighth anniversary of ‘kar sewa’ of the holy river.

This will be his second visit to the Kali Bein. Earlier, recognizing Baba Seechewal''s relentless service to clean the Bein, he visited the holy river two years ago.

Kali Bein is sacred to the Sikhs for its association with Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.

Bangalore, June 26 : The former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam on Thursday said the nuclear deal with the U. S. will prove beneficial to India.

Kalam was talking to the media at the sidelines of a conference on International Aero Space in here today he said that it was crucial for India to sign the deal with the US.

For his devoted efforts in the arena of education as well as research, the former Indian President Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam will be conferred honorary doctorate by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) during its convocation later this month.

The University will also honor well-known agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan, industrialist Ratan Tata and IT-major Wipro’s CEO Azim Premji at the convocation.

Dr. Kalam will reach Aligarh a day before the convocation to spend some time with children studying at 50 schools in the city.

Bhubaneswar, May 10 : Former President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam on Saturday said the Pokhran tests strengthened the nation.

Kalam who is on a two-day visit to Orissa said on the eve of tenth anniversary of Pokhran-II. . "It was a very important decision on the part of the Indian government to go for test explosion of nuclear devices on May 11, 1998," said Kalam.

At the time of the test explosions, Kalam was the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) chief and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister.