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
New Delhi: Bill Gates is set to become the next comic book hero. The Microsoft founder's life will now be made into a graphic novel releasing by the end of the month. It will also be available on Nook and Kindle. He's no superhero in the traditional sense, but Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has touched many lives. And now a comic with colorful illustrations will illustrate his life....
01:27 PM, Apr 18, 2012
London: British scientists claim they are developing a unique device which can turn used toilet waste into drinking water. A team at Manchester University, led by Sarah Haigh, says the innovation -- which has been funded by billionaire Bill Gates -- could transform the lives of millions of people in the third world. In fact, the scientists plan to have a prototype ready to demonstrate by 2013, the 'Daily Mail'...
05:40 PM, Apr 09, 2012
London: A new invention, being funded by billionaire Bill Gates, aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water, a British nanotechnology expert says. According to Manchester University's Sarah Haigh, the invention could make waste water from toilets safe to drink, the Daily Mail reported. She believes a new range of materials could extract energy from human waste. The innovation could transform the lives of millions of people in the...
12:50 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New York: Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy is among the 12 "greatest entrepreneurs of our time" according to a Fortune magazine list that is topped by Apple's late chief Steve Jobs. It includes Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for turning "concepts into companies" and changing the "face of business". The US publication said as the "visionary founder" of Infosys, Murthy has built "one of the largest...
04:39 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Washington: Reliance India chairman Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.3 billion emerged as the world's richest Indian in the Forbes list of billionaires featuring 48 Indians. India's top ten included Savitri Jindal & family (world rank 80), Sunil Mittal & family (113), Kumar Birla (116) Anil Ambani (118) Dilip Shanghvi (124) Shashi & Ravi Ruia (133) and Kushal Pal Singh (153). Ambani, despite losing $4.7 billion in the...
07:45 PM, Mar 08, 2012
On March 24, 2011, two significant events took place. In the first, millions of Indians sat glued to their televisions as India beat Australia to enter the semi-finals of the cricket World Cup. Sitting in the crowd at the Ahmedabad stadium were many of India's richest businessmen and celebrities. Less than 1,000 km away, in Delhi, the world's second and third richest persons, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, respectively, were...
01:18 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Seattle: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing a leadership change. The foundation announced on Monday the head of the its largest grant recipient will be taking over its global development program. Dr Christopher Elias is currently president and chief executive of PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit that finds technical solutions to world health programs. PATH's achievements under Elias' leadership include developing more nutritious rice and creating a way to...
06:13 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Washington: Steve Jobs called long-time rival and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates as "unimaginative" and not really a product person, according to a biography of the deceased Apple Inc chief executive. "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," Jobs told author Walter Isaacson. "He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas." "He'd be a broader...
08:18 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New York: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined an outpouring of tributes to Steve Jobs, calling the Apple co-founder a competitor and friend. "Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many...
08:14 AM, Oct 06, 2011
New York: Bill Gates tops this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth calculated at $ 59 billion. Forbes says the Microsoft co-founder saw his wealth increase by $ 5 billion from last year. Investor Warren Buffett ranks second with a fortune of $ 39 billion, though Forbes says the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive's wealth shrank by $ 6 billion from a year ago....
08:37 AM, Sep 22, 2011
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