Aadhaar is something that had never been done by any government before, not even in a rich country
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who presides over the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arrived in Amethi on Tuesday along with Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.
As part of its Grand Challenges Exploration programme, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has granted $100,000 to researchers hoping to use chewing gum to detect malaria indicators in saliva so that blood does not have to be drawn.
When it comes to schools, there are no quick fixes, discovers Bill Gates.
Some of the world's biggest foundations, including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pension funds such as CalPERS, university funds and endowments are registered as foreign institutional investors with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for several years now.
President Pratibha Patil on Saturday presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for his charity work.
The world's largest annual prize for international health honors extraordinary efforts to improve health in developing countries.
Bill Gates foundation also wants to help the state to eradicate kala azar.
The Gates Foundation is awarding a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary, which the latter will match with an additional $100 million raised by its members over the next three years. At the same time, the United Kingdom is giving an additional $150 million and Germany $130 million both to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
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.
If Cyrus's protestations of having no knowledge of his imminent dismissal are to be taken at face value, he was extraordinarily naive and insulated from the ground reality. There were enough straws in the wind to suggest that his relations with Ratan were fast deteriorating to a point of no return.
Venkayya, who announced that he will join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, becomes the second Indian American to walk away, following close on the heels of Karan Bhatia, who resigned as deputy United States trade representative in October.
S Somasegar, senior vice president, Microsoft Corporation, shares his experiences of having worked closely with Bill Gates.
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The very, very rich were very, very generous this year.
The South African Federation of the Urban Poor on Thursday disclosed this in statement saying the money was donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The money would be directed through the Slum/Shack Dwellers International, which is based in South Africa.
The William and Flora Hewlett and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations announced a $9.1 million grant for Pratham, a non-profit organisation, recently to help 60 million children in India get added help in basic math, reading and writing.
Most of Indian billionaires are shy of talking about the money they spend on charity.
They will jointly launch AIDS prevention programmes targeting the youth and high-risk groups.
In what is believed to be the largest charitable gift made in the US, the world's second richest man Warren Buffet plans to donate the bulk of his $44-billion fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
India's sprawling digital public infrastructure received a glowing endorsement from billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday as he praised the country's "great" digital network, reliable and low-cost connectivity, and said this will be the cheapest 5G market. Under the G20 presidency of India, a session on 'Building resilient and inclusive economies- the Promise of Digital Public Infrastructure' was held on Wednesday in New Delhi, where the Microsoft co-founder spoke of India's digital identity Aadhaar, its payment infrastructure, and rapid strides that the country has taken in bringing more people into formal banking system. "India in particular, by laying the groundwork for digital public infrastucture starting with identity system, allows people to build on top of that.
This makes him corporate India's biggest donor to society.
According to a nation-wide survey on financial behaviour, India has the highest account dormancy rate even more than countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates arrived in Chennai by a special aircraft from Delhi on a two-day visit.
Gates says he wants to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation expressed satisfaction at the Foundation's programmes in the state on AIDS.
'This song truly touched my heart, and I know the emotion will speak to many.'
'The vaccine policy should be such that all people should get the vaccine free.'
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Microsoft on Friday (local time) announced that its co-founder Bill Gates has stepped down from the company's board of directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities including global health and education. Gates will, however, continue to serve as the technology advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
The trial began at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle as the first participant received the investigational vaccine.
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American business tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Friday announced an emergency relief fund of $700,000 for the flood victims of Jammu and Kashmir.
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