Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Today is his 83rd birthday. Kalam is also known as the ‘Missile Man’ of India for his contribution to the development of the ballistic missile. Kalam had graduated from the Madras Institute of Technology, after which he worked at DRDO and ISRO. He played a key role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998. Did […]
Ten-year-old Sadiq, who has blood cancer, wanted to be police commissioner, and his wish was granted on Wednesday. Dressed in khaki uniform and a cap, he beamed with pride when police officers of Hyderabad saluted him, their “chief” for a day. He also had a snappy salute for the cameras, baton tucked under one arm. Sadiq, who is from Karimnagar, has many relatives in the police force. So it was […]
After launching missiles from land and sea, India is in the process of developing suspersonic missile aircraft that would hit long range targets from air. “It needs a lot of testing on the ground. You need to fly it on the ground and do the testing. The integration (of the missile) has been done with the aircraft. But there are many other aspects. We are in the process”, former chief […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met her Canadian counterpart John Baird here on Tuesday for a discussion on Canada-India relations to strengthen bilateral economic ties between the two countries. Baird also commemorated the International Day of the Girl Child at a school in New Delhi. India and Canada were expected to discuss the bilateral issues at the meeting, including matters related to security, defence, counter-terrorism, space and nuclear […]
TORONTO: Canada’s new high commissioner to India Nadir Patel is an India-Canadian, one who was born in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state of Gujarat and speaks Gujarati at home. Patel is barely 44. His appointment was announced on Friday by foreign affairs minister John Baird and international trade minister Ed Fast. Patel’s appointment follows the appointment of Richard Rahul Verma, an Indian American, as the country’s next ambassador to India. […]
Noted lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar has completed 50 years in the film industry. Recalling his long association with Bollywood, he said: “It was on October 4, 1964, that I stepped down at the railway station in Mumbai. Over the years I’ve realised that all that has happened to me is not because I’m good, but because people have been good to me. “If I had to describe my journey […]
I normally don’t dwell on what I am going to wear before I go on a shoot. It’s usually something presentable, comfortable and preferably in a bright “TV” color that makes my cameraman Rajesh happy. This time, though, I was perplexed. I was about to film a story on manual scavenging. We were going to film people who clean human excreta. Knowing I would have to get close to human […]
Mangalore: Kudroli Gokarnanatheshwara Temple here has perhaps become the first in the country to appoint two widows from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities as priests to perform pujas and other rituals. Last year the temple had appointed two other widows as priests and they have been performing their duties since then. Chandravathi from Ranipur and Lakshmi from Chilimbi were appointed as priests in the historic century-old shrine on […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the ambitious “Make in India” campaign to put the country prominently on the global manufacturing map and, in turn, facilitate the inflow of new technology and capital, while creating millions of jobs. Following up on his Independence Day address call, he kicked off the campaign at a star-studded event where leading industrialists and business leaders from India and abroad pledged to support the […]
In an act of honesty, three students in Hyderabad alerted the police about currency notes found spilled at an ATM and averted a possible theft of amount over Rs. 24 lakh from a kiosk, police said today. The trio, Shiak Latheef Vali, S R Shiva Durga Prasad and J Hariprasad, pursuing degrees and final year of CA course had gone to the SBH ATM at S R Nagar on night […]
