AIDS prevention has a new ambassador in Kolkata - Bula-di

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates will receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development here today. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is in India to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

May 14th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Companies based in the Technopark IT industrial park here will join hands with the Kerala government to strengthen the AIDS awareness campaign in the state, an industry official said here Thursday. The Group of Technopark Companies (GTECH), a body representing the chief executives of the Technopark firms, has adopted a corporate policy on HIV/AIDS that calls for strengthening the awareness campaign among among the member companies and employees, the group secretary, Satish Babu, said.

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

January 18th, 2005 Source: India's Choice by NYTimes For an AIDS patient in a poor country lucky enough to get antiretroviral treatment, chances are that the pills that stave off death come from India. Generic knockoffs of AIDS drugs made by Indian manufacturers - now treating patients in 200 countries - have brought the price of antiretroviral therapy down to $140 a year from $12,000.

August 15th, 2005 Scientists discovered that acupunture gives relief to Human Immuno Virus patients from bloating, cramping, and appetite lose, symptoms which are often caused by side effects of popular anti-HIV drugs. Highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) drugs for HIV prolongs life.

July 27th, 2008 OCC Kolkata organized its first meet of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs wannabes. Overall 7 people attended including the convener Mitesh (nice job by a fresh engg.

August 11th, 2005 A California doctor has been indicted on federal charges for "sub-dosing" AIDS patients, or giving them less than the prescribed amounts of their medications in order to increase his profit. Dr. George Kooshian, a well-known California AIDS doctor, was accused of "subdosing" his patients - giving them less than the prescribed amount of medication to boost his profits.

January 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal government will give 25 acres land to scam-tainted IT company Satyam Computers in the state if they want it, Information Technology (IT) Minister Debesh Das said here Friday. 'If they want it, we will definitely give it.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil on Saturday presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for his charity work. Gates received the prize on behalf of his 38 billion dollars Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

March 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - An irate mob broke windows of a mini-bus and set it ablaze after the vehicle ran over a youth in a West Bengal town Monday, the police said. The incident took place Monday morning in Salkia town of Howrah district, adjoining Kolkata.

August 10th, 2006 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the fund, which says it sorely lacks cash. The money, to be given over five years, is the largest private donation to the fund, founded nearly five years ago to serve as the primary financing vehicle for efforts to fight the HIV pandemic, tuberculosis and malaria.

September 14th, 2005 According to NCAER survey Delhi and Mumbai continue to be the major centres of wealth in India, accounting for half of the roughly 20,000 crorepati (owner of 10 million Rs. or more) households in India.

May 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - In order to tackle cyber crime, the Kolkata police joined hands with the Public Relations Society of India, Kolkata Chapter and Calcutta Telephones and organised a workshop here to spread awareness about cyber security. Cyber crime still remains a vague phenomenon for most Internet users, as they are not aware as to what actually constitutes cyber crime and what laws are against it.

February 16th, 2009 NOIDA - Two suspects have been arrested from Kolkata for the Rs.4 million fraud by a BPO employee who allegedly diverted insurance funds into accounts opened in Britain under false names, the police said Tuesday. The latest arrests were made a month after key accused Edward Burns, senior executive of a leading BPO firm here, was arrested Jan 17.