Abdul Kalam
Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen "A. P. J." Abdul Kalamwas the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. A career scientist turned politician, Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisationand Indian Space Research Organisationand was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CityRameswaram, India
The school hours for children are the best time for learning, and need the best environment and mission oriented learning with value based educational system.
These changes will have a major impact on the fiscal deficit of states, apart from bringing down the costs of doing business,
The right signal is that technology is going to boost (economic) development of our nation,
Science leads to development of technologies. Availability of technologies leads to products.
While condemning this inhuman act, nations have the collective responsibility to device a mechanism to see that such situation do not occur in future for any citizen of India and also any person belonging to any part of the world.
We are firmly committed to helping Mauritius overcome this temporary phase and India can be a partner and can fully share its experiences, particularly in the areas of sugar and textile with you.
My government is committed towards creating such an environment so that the latent potential of our people can blossom and create a new India of our dreams.
Nuclear scientists have always shown the country how nuclear technology can be used for increasing the agricultural produce, medical application and nuclear power generation.
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.