New Delhi: Bill Gates met Rotary International India on Thursday in New Delhi on his three day visit to the country where he is expected to meet a number of Government functionaries before heading to Bangalore for a discussion on philanthropy with India's industrial leaders. Gates met Rotary leaders " Rajendra K Saboo, Past President, Rotary International , Ashok M Mahajan, Trustee & Member, International PolioPlus Committee and Deepak Kapur,...
06:59 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: First it was Vidya Balan and now it is Bill Gates who has come forward to extend support to Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's sanitation drive. Gates, who has supported India's battle against polio, will now help alter behavioural patterns connected with sanitation. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Ramesh said, "We discussed how the Gates Foundation can support us in bringing behavioural changes along the lines of...
10:19 PM, May 30, 2012
Lucknow: Microsoft founder Bill Gates met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav earlier on Wednesday in Lucknow. The focus of the meet was on healthcare, which the Bill and Melinda Foundation plans to take up in the state. An advance team from Gates's office had met senior officials in the state last week and done the ground work for the Gates-Akhilesh meeting. Gates reportedly presented a five-point programme that his...
06:10 PM, May 30, 2012
Lucknow: Microsoft founder Bill Gates will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Wednesday to discuss healthcare in the state. The 56-year-old Gates is likely to discuss a host of healthcare programmes that the Bill and Melinda Foundation plans to take up in the state. An advance team from Gate's office has met senior officials in the state last week and done the ground work for the...
12:29 PM, May 30, 2012
Lucknow: Microsoft founder Bill Gates will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Wednesday to discuss healthcare in the state. The 56-year-old Gates is likely discuss a host of healthcare programmes that the Bill and Melinda Foundation plans to take up in the state. An advance team from Gate's office has met senior officials in the state last week and done the ground work for the Gates-Akhilesh...
03:34 PM, May 29, 2012
Cast: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith Director: John Madden Seven British fogies find love, sex, jobs, and redemption, when they head to India in the predictable yet feel-good comedy 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'. Directed by Shakespeare In Love's John Madden, the film boasts an ensemble of some of the finest English actors who pump heart into what could've easily been an entirely calculated affair. Judi Dench stars as...
01:34 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Director John Madden's comedy film 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is being released on May 18, 2012 in India. The film features many known actors like Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton and others. The film revolves around seven British retirees who come to India to stay in the newly restored Marigold Hotel. However, what they find in India is completely opposite of their...
04:52 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' not only has a big name, but also has a long list of actors. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Celina Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton. Directed by John Madden, the film is about a group of seven British people who are on a visit to India to enjoy their retirement. For...
02:44 PM, May 17, 2012
Cannes: The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was to get under way Wednesday with Wes Anderson's carefully composed whimsy and Sacha Baron Cohen's less confined theatrics. Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' will open Cannes, where it will premiere amid the frenzy of the French festival. Anderson, as well as cast Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and possibly Bill Murray will make their way down Cannes' grand red carpet in the evening. But before...
04:55 PM, May 16, 2012
London: The restrictions imposed on student visas by the David Cameron government may prevent the next generation of world leaders such as Manmohan Singh, Benazir Bhutto or Bill Clinton from coming to Britain to study, the head of a leading think-tank on Monday said. Criticising the Cameron government for restrictions on student visas, the influential Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) said in a report that students from India and...
01:34 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre's proposal for raising the age of consent for sex from 16 to 18 years would be "regressive" and "draconian" as it would remain a penal offence, a Delhi court has said. The court opined that keeping in view the change in social attitude and sensibilities, exceptions should be made while deciding the age of consent for sex as in rural parts of the country marriages are...
07:29 PM, May 13, 2012
Hyderabad: Ella Foundation has won a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a virus against polio after the phasing out of the oral poliovirus (OPV) vaccine, the Hyderabad-based scientific research group said on Thursday. "Such a vaccine could carry the beneficial effects of an oral polio vaccine - namely safety, efficacy, ease of manufacture, distribution and administration along with the safety...
01:50 PM, May 10, 2012
London: American treasure hunter Bill Warren has claimed to have located Osama bin Laden's body bag deep under the Arabian Sea, 320 km west of Surat in Gujarat, and hopes to start his mission on June 1. "I've located where they threw him away," Daily Mail quoted him as telling Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "I'm the only one with this information," he said. With the help of the recent photos...
08:01 AM, May 05, 2012
A new Obama campaign advertisement shows former president Bill Clinton praising him for approving the risky May 2 raid and asking which path would Mitt Romney have taken. ...
11:08 AM, May 02, 2012
Rome: Governments are failing to fund projects to improve access to toilets and other sanitation services in poor countries because the subject remains "taboo", a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Monday. "Who wants to talk about shit?" asked Frank Rijsberman, Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at the $ 34 billion charitable foundation, during an interview with Reuters on Monday. "It's the last big taboo...
08:49 AM, May 01, 2012
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