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  Former President A P J Abdul Kalam visualises India becoming the best destination for the most talented scholars, scientists and investors by 2020. He feels that in the next 11 years, India could have a responsive, transparent and corruption-free governance. "I visualise India as a prosperous, healthy, secure, devoid of terrorism, peaceful and happy nation by 2020," Kalam said while addressing engineering and management degree recipients at the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) convocation in Lucknow on Tuesday. He was the chief guest at the ceremony. According to him, by 2020, India is likely to become a nation where education will not be denied to any meritorious candidate because of social or economic discrimination. It could be a nation where there is an equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water, and where agriculture, industry and service sectors work together in harmony. "To achieve these distinctive profiles, we have t...

Did you know that Indira Gandhi yearned for a daughter, or that veteran communist parliamentarian Hirendranath Mukherjee tried to find out if Comrade Jyoti Basu had accepted money to deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in 1998? These and other nuggets of information are recorded in former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh's book Yours Sincerely, a selection of correspondence between him and eminent public personalities - among them Indira Gandhi, P N Haksar, H Y Sharda Prasad, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Rajiv Gandhi, E M Forster, Nadine Gordimer and Mulk Raj Anand. The book, released earlier this month, does not include any correspondence with Sonia Gandhi. But many letters, written by people long gone, remain relevant even today. In December 1971, Indira wrote: "It is not important what the Chinese think or what they want. What is important is what they do. So far they have kept to the expected line." Nearly four decades later, her advice would s...

Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) Pepsico chief executive Indira Nooyi inevitably tops the list of what Forbes calls 'Eight Indian-Flavoured CEOs' who lead US corporations with revenues of at least $2 billion as the premier business magazine chronicles the rise of Indians in corporate ranks in America. 'The chief executive of PepsiCo would be prominent no matter what. The fact that the current one - Indira Nooyi - is an Indian immigrant (and female, in case you've been living under a rock) makes her all the more noteworthy,' it says. 'It's not a not a surprise that we're seeing Indians rise in corporate ranks,' Forbes quotes Richard Herman, co-author of a book on migrants to the US, Immigrant, Inc, as saying in an article published Monday. 'Of all the immigrant groups coming in today, Indians are head-and-shoulders above others, and this is partly because of their English language skills and also the advanced education that many of them are bringing ...

Massive addition to its route network, segregation of passenger and freight services into separate double-line corridors, raising the speeds of passenger trains from the current 130 kmph to 160-200 kmph on some routes, zero accidents and equipment failures and setting up of four high-speed passenger corridor are some of the key goals the Indian Railways would try to achieve by the year 2020, as per the 'Indian Railways Vision 2020' document tabled in Parliament by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday. "The Vision 2020" envisages the Indian Railways to expand its route network at the rate of 2,500 km annually in order to be able to add 25,000 km of new lines (including 11,985 km of pending new line projects) by 2020. Similarly, the Vision sets a target of 12,000 km each for doubling and gauge conversion and another 14,000 km for electrification of lines. Realising the ever-increasing requirement of rolling stock, the document sets targets of procuring 2.8 la...