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Kalam's R-Day address focuses on employment generation

     New Delhi: With a unifocal agenda of employment generation in his Republic Day address, President APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday said the nation should launch a series of missions in various areas including agriculture, education, health care and infrastructure development to find gainful employment for around 76 million people in next five years. In his customary address to the nation titled "Action Plan for Employment Generation" on the eve of 56th Republic Day, the President avoided reference to any other issues and concentrated on employment concerns that has caused "fading away of the smiles, the shattering of the dreams and the weaning away of the gleam in the eyes that we see in every section of youth in the country. "The only answer to retain the smile from the child to the youth is to generate employment. It represents the aspirations and anxiety of nearly 540 million youth of our nation. Hence, I have selected the topic for the Republic Day address as "Action Plan for Employment Generation," Kalam said explaining the reason for chosing the issue.

Security beefed up ahead of Republic day celebrations (Go To Top)

     Agartala/Srinagar/New Delhi: Security has been beefed up across India on the eve of the Republic Day celebrations. In north-eastern Tripura, patrolling has been intensified along the 865 km porous Indo-Bangla border, which has been witnessing infiltration too often. "We have to take special measures to see that the militants are not able to cross over the border. We have opened around 30 extra posts in and around the border area and the interiors. With that we will be position to check any new movement. When it comes to town and the places of celebration, we have made special arrangement of deploying men, machine and canines and by that we hope that during the celebrations of 26 January this year, we will be in a position to check the movements of the militants and no incident should take place," said GM Srivastava, the Director General of Police.

     Elsewhere in Jammu and Kashmir, the police and paramilitary forces have thrown a thick blanket of security to combat militant threats. In Srinagar, where a parade would be taken out for the celebrations, the police forces are busy checking vehicles, and frisking the public. K Srinivasan, the Director General of the Border Security Force, said that special measures are also being taken to conduct the forthcoming civil polls in a peaceful manner. "There is a new dimension this year that there are going to be civic polls right after the republic day. They will try to scuttle the elections. Hence we are extending all the arrangements after tomorrow till the elections are held," said Srinivasan. In New Delhi also the security forces have cordoned off the India Gate area, from where the main parade would be taken out. Vehicles are being checked and police officials are being deployed at every nook and corner of the heavily guarded capital. A red alert has been sounded across the city.

Car Nicobar rocked (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The east coast of Car Nicobar was rocked late last night by an earthquake of moderate intensity, informed the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). According to the IMD, the quake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, was felt at 23:30 hrs last night. The epicentre of the quake was at 9.1 degrees North latitude and 94.5 degrees East longitude, IMD added. After the December 26 tragedy, the area has witnessed a large number of aftershocks.