Fifty of China's super-rich recently received an invitation to a banquet to be held on September 29.
This slide show speaks of 20 millionaires of the world who were not born with silver spoons in their mouths but made it big themselves.
The caste census has already become a hot-button issue. Unless settled earlier, it will echo loudly in the coming assembly elections and eventually in the 2024 parliamentary poll, notes Virendra Kapoor.
There are 1,011 billionaires in the world this year.
The Indian software industry, which has a big exposure to the US market, has expressed its concerns over the comments by the US President. Some US companies, which outsource a number of their IT jobs to Indian companies, have launched a campaign against the new law that ends tax incentives to those firms which create jobs overseas.
Bill Gates, a frequent visitor to India, had a firsthand experience of this variety of rice when he visited the country last year.
Bill Gates, who is on a five university tour talking to students about the work done by his philanthropic organisation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said he later completed a few degrees through online courses.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates- promoted luxury hotel group Four Seasons on Monday said it will have four new properties in India within the next five years
In his plea to Congress, Gates emphasizes science education.
The Gates Foundation also announced on Wednesday grants to nine foundations totalling $120 million illustrating the range of efforts necessary to empower millions of small farmers to grow enough to build better, healthier lives.
These days, precocious youngsters have a handle on the laws of supply and demand--not to mention other concepts, like inventory and marketing--by the time they crack double digits.
A world without tobacco 'is a world in which people live longer and have happier lives,' Bloomberg, New York Mayor who has a fortune of $16 billion, said at a joint press conference with the Microsoft founder Gates. They said the money would go to anti-smoking groups working with governments to curb the consumption of tobacco and related products, including World Health Organisation and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Microsoft Corporation India on Monday announced that Project Shiksha, the company's initiative to accelerate IT literacy among government school teachers and students, has trained 200,000 teachers till date.
In an interview, Ravi Venkatesan, chairman Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd, spoke to rediff.comabout Gates, his insatiable curiosity and indomitable courage to take risks.
Software czar Bill Gates, legendary investor Warren Buffett and Apple's Steve Jobs, all known for their business acumen, have been named among the 20 best American CEOs of all time.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Monday became the richest person in the world, surpassing American software czar Bill Gates, Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and famous investment guru Warren Buffett, courtesy the bull run in the stock market.
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
India's Anil Ambani has emerged as the biggest wealth creator while Warren Buffet is labelled as the richest man. With wealth soaring by $23.8 billion since the last list, Anil has come out as the biggest gainer.
Gates said he was linking up with an Olympic Games for the first time to use it as a way to increase awareness of the SDGs and also urged Japan to become a world leader in aid and development.
The modern heroes find themselves in the illustrious company of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, John D Rockefeller, Thomas Edison and Michael Dell.
The company may employ more than 60,000 people, but Mr Gates's intellectually combative nature still defines its corporate culture and he remains the figurehead for its armies of software developers.
For years, the true nerds of Silicon Valley have obsessed about Bill Gates. They damned Microsoft as an evil empire and proclaimed Gates its Darth Vader. His products? Technically inferior and chronically behind schedule. His company? An evil monopoly bent on world domination and the suppression of truly great software.
Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi on Thursday questioned the quality of IITs, saying that large-scale spending on the nation's premier technology schools was not paying back enough dividends.
Vineet Kumar was the naughtiest kid in school -- and that was only three years ago! Today, at the age of 18, he is the CEO of the National Anti-Hacking Group, advising the Indian Army and corporates on how to safeguard their Internet interests.
Microsoft is developing a system that could spell the end the use of computer mouse, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said. He said that computer users of the future will control their machines by voice and pen as well as touch. Users of Windows 7 will issue commands by touching the screen rather than by the traditional keyboard and mouse combination that has dominated since the 1970s.
According to a study done by Singapore University of Technology and Design Data, coronavirus will 100 per cent end across the world on December 8.
Prahalad, who is the first Indian-origin thinker to claim the title, was ranked number three in last year's Thinkers 50 list brought out by Suntop Media. A professor at the University of Michigans' Stephen M Ross School of Business, Prahalad specialises in corporate strategy research and is a globally known figure consulted by the top management of many of the world's foremost companies.
With visas set to max out quickly again, tech companies want more. Amid rising joblessness, does America need more skilled foreign workers?
At the end of the day what counts is that Nabard has been rewarded with the management of another Rs 500 crore
Microsoft, which is usually at the receiving end of patent suits, has filed an infringement case against Primax Electronics of Taiwan for using its mouse technology.
Almost two-thirds of the world's billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, not good genes
Top management of high-tech companies have been asking the US government to rework their Senate immigration bill to allow them to hire more foreign workers.
'They are not ready to take the vaccine.' 'They fear that if they do, they will die.'
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has overtaken NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to become the richest Indian in the world. Ambani's net worth has soared past $50 billion.
Several restrictions on tax deductions for charity are no longer appropriate today.
The world's growing demand for energy is also a big problem.
As Japan expands state of emergency, calls grow to cancel Games. Japan has repeatedly insisted it will hold the Games despite opinion polls showing a majority of respondents want them postponed again or cancelled.
Bill Gates has revealed that the development of "next-generation" ultra-thin condoms to enhance sexual pleasure is in progress.
Nasdaq-listed Wipro Ltd on Wednesday said its chairman Azim Premji has been named among the 'greatest entrepreneurs' of all time by BusinessWeek.
The Mexican telecom tycoon is worth an estimated $67.84 billion.
