KALAM PASSING  Indian Air Force officials and Indian Army officials carry a casket bearing the body of former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam towards a waiting aircraft at an air force base in Guwahati on July 28, 2015. India’s former president and top scientist A. P. J. Kalam, who played a lead role in the country’s nuclear weapons tests, died on July 27, a hospital official said. He was 83. Kalam collapsed during a lecture at a management institute in the northeastern Indian city of Shillong, and was declared dead on arrival by doctors at Bethany hospital. AFP PHOTO
KALAM PASSING
Indian Air Force officials and Indian Army officials carry a casket bearing the body of former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam towards a waiting aircraft at an air force base in Guwahati on July 28, 2015. India’s former president and top scientist A. P. J. Kalam, who played a lead role in the country’s nuclear weapons tests, died on July 27, a hospital official said. He was 83. Kalam collapsed during a lecture at a management institute in the northeastern Indian city of Shillong, and was declared dead on arrival by doctors at Bethany hospital. AFP PHOTO

NEW DELHI: India’s former president and top scientist A. P. J. Kalam, who played a lead role in the country’s nuclear weapons tests, died on Monday, a hospital official said. He was 83.

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