Bill Gates to receive Indira Gandhi Peace Prize todayJuly 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.
Bill Gates in India to receive Indira Gandhi Peace PrizeJuly 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.
Bill Gates receives Indira Gandhi prize for his foundation's work in IndiaJuly 25th, 2009 Bill Gates receives Indira Gandhi Prize in IndiaNEW DELHI — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development from India's president, a government statement said. The prize recognizes his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates says he seldom feels drainedJuly 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Friday said he is a 24-hour technology person and rarely feels drained. "I am a 24-hour technology person.
Bill Gates says he seldom logs outJuly 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Friday said he seldom logs out, rarely feels drained and finds social networking sites irritating. "I am a 24-hour technology person," said Gates, on a visit here for overseeing the philanthropic activities of the foundation he has formed with his wife Melinda.
Microsoft wants to be part of unique identity project: GatesJuly 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming the unique identity project as a "great initiative", Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Friday said the software giant wanted to partner with India in the ambitious project that will give a unique identity number to each of its citizens. "Microsoft wants to be a part of the unique identification project," Gates told a conference organised by the IT industry lobby, National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).
'Big mistake' if US blocks overseas skilled workers: Bill GatesJuly 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates Friday said it would be a "big mistake" if the US curbs the entry of skilled workers from abroad, rallying behind the "smart people" from countries like India that has a globally recognised outsourcing industry. He also said Microsoft will like to partner the Indian government in its ambitious plan to give a unique identity number and a biometric card to each of its 1.17 billion people.
Bill Gates says US curb on skilled migrant labour will be a 'mistake'July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates Friday said it would be a "big mistake" if the US imposes curbs on the entry of skilled workers from abroad, putting his weight behind "smart people" from countries like India who want to work overseas. "I can't make any predictions.
Bill Gates Support for "Intelligent Design" Think TankAugust 27th, 2005 According to Salon Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged more than 10 million in past 5 years to the Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank that is leading the charge to bring "intelligent design" to the masses. I can see three possibilities.
Bill Gates (Gates Foundation) Gives 500 Million To Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaAugust 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.
Bill Gates' Overpriced Tshirt in the Market, Who wants to Buy it Anyway?January 13th, 2009 Would you hang around with a chubby boy with specs on your apparel's chest? By jove the fellas would rip you off. Well! for a welcome surprise how about the Microsoft's big shot (officially former) Bill Gates on frontage.
Revenge of The Vole (aka Microsoft)July 28th, 2005 I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun.
Bill Gates: Better data on student, teacher performance will raise achievement in US schoolsJuly 21st, 2009 Bill Gates: Better data mean better schoolsPHILADELPHIA — The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday.
Sonia salutes India's IT successSeptember 15th, 2009 MYSORE - Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday attributed nation's success in the field of Information technology to the Indian talent, ingenuity and hard work. She was speaking after inaugurating the Infosys technology campus in Mysore.
Gandhi would have embraced Facebook, Twitter to broaden his reach among massesOctober 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Had he been alive today, Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of India, may have overcome his aversion to technology and embraced the mobilizing power of software such as Facebook and Twitter to organize massive pro-democracy protests, claims George Paxton of the London-based Gandhi Foundation. Gandhi, who advocated a return to a simpler way of life, "at times sounded very anti-technology," National Geographic quotes Paxton, as saying.andhi's view was that technology was often used at the expense of the poor, Paxton said.
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