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	Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indian Missiles
		Kalam is happiest at the drawing board, in discussion with his scientists on how their dreams for the next millennium can be fulfilled.
		On 25th November 1999, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was appointed Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and accorded the rank of a Cabinet Minister.
		On July 25, 2002, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was sworn in as the 11th President of India by Chief Justice of India B.N. Kirpal in the Central Hall of Parliament at an impressive function telecast live across the country.
	www.geocities.com /siafdu/kalam.html (2065 words)

	Abdul Kalam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kalam is credited with the view that India ought to take a more assertive stance in international relations; he apparently regards his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.
		Kalam comes from the Marakkar community from Southern India, a non-Urdu speaking community, and is one the few from his community to have achieved the kind of recognition he has.
		Kalam's belief in the power of technology to resolve society's problems and his views of these problems as a result of inefficient distribution of resources is modernistic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Kalam (1698 words)

	Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
		Born in Dhanushkodi, in what is now Tamil Nadu, to a working class Muslim family, Kalam received his PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1958.
		On July 18, 2002, Kalam was elected by an overwhelming majority (upwards of 90%) as President, and took office on July 25.
		Politically, Kalam wants India to take a more assertive stance in international relations and sees his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ap/APJ_Abdul_Kalam.html (337 words)

	Abdul Kalam - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kalam took up academic pursuit as Professor, Technology and Societal Transformation at Anna University, Chennai from November 2001 and was involved in teaching and research tasks.
		Kalam has the unique distinction of having received doctorates from at least thirty universities, as also India's three highest civilian honours - the Padma Bhushan in 1981; the Padma Vibhushan in 1990; and the Bharat Ratna in 1997.
		Abdul Kalam boarded the INS Sindhurakshak, a Russian-origin kilo class submarine, from the Vishakapattanam Naval dockyard.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/A.P.J._Abdul_Kalam (941 words)

	Abdul Kalam
		Abdul Kalam^, despite not having a PhD,) was the eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007.
		Kalam is credited with the view that India ought to take a more assertive stance in international relations; he regards his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.
		APJ Abdul Kalam was born in 1931 in a middle-class family in Rameshwaram, a town well-known for its Hindu shrines.
	www.enciclopedias-virtuales.com /description/Abdul_Kalam (1110 words)

	Abdul Kalam
		Kalam will be meeting Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine, designer of missiles and satellites.
		In response to Dr. Kalam's 3 questions on polls in Gujarat, the Supreme Court decided that it's OK to have elections till December, and will think about the rest of the questions on September 17th.
		My view is that Dr. Kalam talks about freedom in the sense of fundamental rights -- along the lines of Tagore and the American declaration of independence.
	abdulkalam.blogspot.com (1428 words)

	rediff.com: A P J Abdul Kalam elected 11th President of India
		Eminent missile technologist A P J Abdul Kalam was on Thursday elected India's 11th President in a highly one-sided contest in which he trounced the Left-backed Colonel Lakshmi Sehgal bagging nearly 90 per cent vote value in a preferential system of election.
		The 71-year-old Kalam, born in a boatman's family in Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, got 4,152 votes with a vote value of 9,22,884, against Sehgal's 459 votes accounting for 1,07,366 votes value in a race in what was heavily loaded against her with the entire political spectrum supporting Kalam.
		Kalam told Mahajan he was delighted to get elected as President of India and immediately came out with a message that the country needs a 'second vision' to transform into a prosperous, poverty free, healthy and developed nation.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/18prez2.htm (581 words)

	President of India : President's Profile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kalam has served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, in the rank of Cabinet Minister, from November 1999 to November 2001 and was responsible for evolving policies, strategies and missions for many development applications.
		Kalam was also the Chairman, Ex-officio, of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C) and piloted India Millennium Mission 2020.
		Kalam is one of the most distinguished scientists of India with the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from 30 universities and institutions.
	www.presidentofindia.nic.in /scripts/presidentprofile.jsp (507 words)

	Abdul Kalam:index
		A vegetarian and a teetotaller, Abdul Kalam recites the Quran and the Bhagvad Gita with equal ease.
		Kalam believes that he has inherited honesty and self-discipline from his father, while faith in goodness and kindness is the trait inherited from his mother.
		His is a classic story of the magic of democracy where a person from a humble background can expect to rise to the most prestigious position in the country through sheer dint of merit.
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		Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (A.P.J.) Abdul Kalam (born October 15, 1931) is the President of India.
		Born in Dhanushkodi, in what is now Tamil Nadu, to a working class Muslim family, Kalam received his PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1958.
		On July 18, 2002, Kalam was elected by an overwhelming majority (upwards of 90%) as President, and took office on July 25.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abdul_kalam.html (384 words)

	Prof. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - A Personal Reminiscence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kalam was the Director of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) in Hyderabad, and thus a fellow DRDO lab Director.
		Kalam's first acts was to demystify the entire process by setting up a proper procedure, consisting of an application by the scientist who wishes to go, followed by the recommendation of the Director, and finally a decision by an apex body called DRDO Research Council (instituted by Prof.
		Kalam had a police escort wherever he went, so sure enough our Ambassador car was accompanied by a pilot escort, consisting of a jeep with a couple of policemen inside and a siren on top.
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	Amardeep Singh: Profile of India's President: APJ Abdul Kalam
		Kalam is a fascinating man, but his actual personal contribution to political life in India is unclear.
		Kalam is more or less simply reciting them (thanks to the commentors on Jivha for pointing this out to me).
		Kalam did denounce the killings of Muslims in Gujurat, but before assuming the Presidency (according to this source) he didn't criticize either Narendra Modi or the BJP.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/06/profile-of-indias-president-apj-abdul.html (1243 words)

	webindia123-Indian personalities-Politicians-Abdul Kalam
		Avul Pakir Jainulabhudin Adbul Kalam, the twelfth President of India, is rightfully termed as the father of India's missile technology.
		APJ abdul Kalam has been awarded Padma Bhushan in 1981, Padma Vibhushan in 1990 and India's Highest civilian Award 'The Bharat Ratna' in 1997.
		Abdul Kalam's vision is to transform India into a developed nation by the year 2020 through hard work and perseverance.
	www.webindia123.com /personal/politician/abdul.htm (461 words)

	✓ Abdul_Kalam - Weltraummedizin.de - Weltraummedizin
		Kalam war maÃgeblich an der Entwicklung der TrÃ¤gersysteme fÃ¼r die Atomwaffen beteiligt.
		Weitere Triebfeder der Entwicklung ist der jetzige StaatsprÃ¤sident Abdul Kalam.
		Andere Techniken wie Ionentriebwerke oder Sonnensegel sollen es der Menschheit ermÃ¶glichen, schnell den interplanetaren Raum zu erreichen und eines Tages vielleicht sogar in andere Sonnensysteme vorzustoÃen.
	weltraummedizin.de /index.php/Abdul_Kalam (2002 words)

	Dream projects of Dr.Abdul Kalam
		Kalam, 66, has never hidden the passion for a powerful India that has driven him since he was growing up in a poor family on the coast of Tamil Nadu.
		Some accounts have said that Kalam's affection for Hinduism developed when a primary-school teacher separated him as a Muslim and placed him at the back of a classroom, prompting tears from a Brahmin boy who was his best friend.
		Kalam has said his ambition was fired by an article about the Supermarine Spitfire, Britain's front-line fighter during World War II, that he read as a small boy delivering a local Tamil newspaper.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/envis/doc98html/misckalam527.html (1543 words)

	Abdul Kalam - Wikinfo
		Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (A.P.J.) Abdul Kalam (born October 15, 1931) is the President of India.
		Kalam is a Muslim according to criteria normally accepted by Muslim scholars.
		Kalam received India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1997.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Abdul_Kalam (1525 words)

	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
		As young Abdul Kalam would look towards the large group of people round the (Rameshwaram) temple, reciting prayers with a sense of respect towards God, whom they (Muslims) treat as the formless Almighty, Abdul believed without a doubt, that the prayers in the temple reached the same God, as the ones offered in the mosque.
		Abdul Kalam told Swami Sivananda about his unsuccessful attempt to join the Indian Air Force and his along cherished desire to fly.
		Abdul prayed to God in Schullers church to help him build a Research Centre at the Imarat Kancha-that would be his Crystal Cathedral.
	www.dalsabzi.com /Books/kids_kahaani/other_stories/abdul_kalam.htm (505 words)

	President of India : President's Profile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kalam made significant contribution as Project Director to develop India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully injected the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980 and made India an exclusive member of Space Club.
		Kalam has served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, in the rank of Cabinet Minister, from November 1999 to November 2001 and was responsible for evolving policies, strategies and missions for many development applications.
		Kalam is one of the most distinguished scientists of India with the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from 30 universities and institutions.
	presidentofindia.nic.in /scripts/presidentprofile.jsp (507 words)

	Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
		Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, popularly known as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the son of a little educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, has become the 11th President of the Republic of India.
		Kalam wrote : “By the time I completed my education at Schwartz, I was a self-confident boy with the determination to be successful.
		Kalam identifies his third phase with his participation with India’s mission to become a nuclear weapon state, jointly undertaken by DRDO and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) with the active support of the armed forces.
	www.vigyanprasar.gov.in /scientists/Abdulkalam/Abdulkalam.htm (1436 words)

	One Hundred Tamils - Abdul Kalam
		Dr Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam, pioneer of India's missile programme, was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to the scientific research and modernisation of defence technology.
		Kalam was born on October 15, 1931 in the temple town of Rameswaram
		A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was born on October 15, 1931.Kalam was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1990.
	www.tamilnation.org /hundredtamils/abdulkalam.htm (1709 words)

	Dr. Abdul Kalam: Simply Profound
		Kalam, who prefers bush shirts to suits and chappals to shoes, will have to get used to other prerequisites of power: formal wear for state dinners.
		It must irk Kalam that there are many who say he has been nominated entirely because of the religion he was born into.
		Kalam prays twice a day but religion to him has always been an intensely individual quest.
	www.fisiusa.org /fisi_News_items/Kalam/Kalam004.htm (638 words)

	A campaign to increase the tenure of Hon.Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam as the President Of India. Petition
		This petition is created with a sole aim of uniting all the FANS Of Hon.Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam worldwide.
		We all know that Hon.Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam is completing his Sucessfull tenure in the month of July 2007.
		The A campaign to increase the tenure of Hon.Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam as the President Of India.
	www.petitiononline.com /apj/petition.html (301 words)

	Profile of India's President: DR. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
		Dr. Kalam took up academic pursuit as Professor, Technology and Societal Transformation at Anna University, Chennai from November 2001 and was involved in teaching and research tasks.
		Dr. Kalam is one of the most distinguished scientists of India with the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from 30 universities and institutions.
		APJ Abdul Kalam, a scientist and the architect of the country's missile programme, was sworn in as India's third Muslim head of state in 2002.
	www.news.ops.gov.ph /india-profile.htm (2644 words)

	HindustanTimes.com - A P J Kalam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abdul Kalam was born in a middle-class Tamil family at Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu on October 15, 1931.
		Salaam Kalam - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
		Kalam's family was not well off, and early in life he did odd jobs like hawking newspapers.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/kalam/home.shtml (274 words)

	Tags - Abdul Kalam - Instablogs Community
		A 14-year old girl from Bihar has asked the President of India Abdul Kalam to either give her justice or the permission to die.
		APJ Abdul Kalam, the missile man of India, is not interested in the 2nd term for the President’s post.
		As the term of President A P J Abdul Kalam is about to come to a close just about five months after, discussions appear to have already started to handpick his successor.
	www.instablogs.com /tags/abdul-kalam (800 words)

	ABC.es Hemeroteca: el cientifico abdul kalam elegido nuevo presidente de la india
		La victoria de Abdul Kalam, elegido por los legisladores del Parlamento federal y autónomos se daba por segura puesto que era el candidato de la gubernamental Alianza Nacional Democrática (AND) y contaba con el apoyo del Partido del Congreso, el mayor de la oposición, y de otras formaciones de la izquierda moderada.
		Abdul Kalam, asociado con el programa de misiles de la India, capaces de transportar cabezas nucleares a 2.500 kilómetros de distancia, y que formó parte del equipo que hizo posible los ensayos nucleares de 1998, asumirá formalmente la Presidencia el próximo día 25 y será el tercer presidente musulmán que ha tenido el país.
		Aunque Abdul Kalam contó con el respaldo de la mayoría de los parlamentarios, su candidatura por parte del Gobierno ha estado asociada a los disturbios entre hindúes y musulmanes que sacudieron en marzo el estado occidental de Gujarat y que causaron unos 900 muertos, casi todos musulmanes, según datos oficiales.
	www.abc.es /hemeroteca/historico-18-07-2002/Ultima/el-cientifico-abdul-kalam-elegido-nuevo-presidente-de-la-india_115351.html (547 words)

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