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  Bill Gates to be keynote speaker at global conference on agriculture in Delhi

  India | November 15, 2019 17:08 IST

  The agriculture ministry is organising the international conference, held every three years, in partnership with the United Nation's FAO, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other agencies.

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  Jeff Bezos loses world's richest man title to Bill Gates

  World | October 25, 2019 12:26 IST

  Amazon shares fell 7 per cent in after-hours trading on Thursday, leaving Bezos down to $103.9 billion. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is currently worth $105.7 billion.

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  Payal Jangid, another Indian awarded by Bill Gates alongside PM Modi

  India | September 25, 2019 11:54 IST

  Coming from Hinsla village in Rajasthan, Payal served as the head of the Bal Panchayat (Children's Council) in her village as part of the 'Bal Mitra Gram' (Child-Friendly Village) program, which comes under Satyarthi's Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA).

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  PM Modi receives 'Global Goalkeeper' award for Swachch Bharat Abhiyan

  India | September 25, 2019 7:17 IST

  Getting the award in the year of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary was significant for him, the prime minister said, adding that when 130 crore people take a pledge, any challenge can be overcome.

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  Bill Gates to honor Modi with Goalkeepers Global Goals Award

  World | September 17, 2019 8:46 IST

  PM Modi will receive the annual Goalkeepers Global Goals Award for providing safer sanitation to 500 million people in India.

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  Another feat! PM Modi to get award from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

  India | September 02, 2019 16:52 IST

  Yet another feat in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's kitty! He will conferred with an award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for PM's ambitious pet project - Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. 

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  Bill Gates $4 billion away from surpassing Jeff Bezos to reclaim world's richest title

  Business | August 26, 2019 13:16 IST

  Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos was in the news after he surpassed Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, in 2018 and acquired the world's richest man title. Well, Gates, who reclaimed the world’s richest title for almost 20 years, is just $4 billion away from being richest again.

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  Miscrosoft co-founder Bill Gates no longer world's second richest person

  World | July 18, 2019 20:37 IST

  ​It is for the first time that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has featured two spots lower on the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Gates has never ranked lower than No.2 in the seven-year history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He has now dropped to No.3 behind France's Bernard Arnault.

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  Steve Jobs was master at 'casting spells' on workers: Gates

  Technology | July 08, 2019 11:13 IST

  Co- founder of Apple was master at "casting spells" to keep employees ready for working long hours, according to Bill Gates

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  Washington, home to Bezos and Gates, is running out of money

  Business | June 27, 2019 0:23 IST

  The Washington town where billionaire Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates live is running out of money, the media has reported.

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  Microsoft losing on Android my 'greatest mistake': Bill Gates

  Technology | June 25, 2019 15:01 IST

  In an interview during an event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global, Gates revealed that the mistake was to allow Google to develop Android and not creating a profitable model themselves, reports TechCrunch.

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  How Goat ATMs are empowering these women in rural Bihar

  India | March 26, 2019 14:16 IST

  Bihar is one of the poorest states in India and has one of the country’s largest populations of goats. 

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  This picture of ‘World’s Richest Man’ Bill Gates standing in line for hamburger is breaking the internet!

  Trending | January 18, 2019 16:52 IST

  His net worth is $95.6 billion and yet he waits patiently in line for a hamburger and coke. #Respect

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  Microsoft's Bill Gates congratulates government on Ayushman Bharat, PM Modi thanks him

  India | January 17, 2019 23:15 IST

  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday congratulated the government for the achievements made by the Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme in its first 100 days.

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  When an Indian sex worker’s plight brought Bill Gates to tears!

  India | November 30, 2018 18:09 IST

  During their visits, Bill and wife Melinda had the ability to completely shut out everything extraneous and focus on the community of sex workers, the author says.

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  Kerala floods: Bill Gates' Foundation to donate Rs 4 crore for relief, rehabilitation efforts

  India | August 25, 2018 23:37 IST

   The funds will be sent to UNICEF which will aid to bolster government efforts and initiatives by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the enormous task of assisting displaced, flood-affected people and helping them rebuild their lives.

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  With USD 142 billion net worth, Amazon's Jeff Bezos tops tally of world's richest people, Mukesh Ambani ranked 18th

  Business | July 08, 2018 23:15 IST

  With USD 142 billion net worth, Bezos tops the ranking of richest persons, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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  ‘What is the difference between HIV and HPV? ‘ Donald Trump asked Bill Gates not once but twice!

  Trending | May 18, 2018 16:43 IST

  During two meetings, Donald Trump asked Bill Gates if vaccines weren’t bad because he was considering creating a commission to look into the negative effects of vaccines, if any.

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  Bill Gates acknowledges Amitabh Bachchan's efforts for polio eradication, here's what Big B replied

  Celebrities | May 07, 2018 19:59 IST

  Amitabh Bachchan became the UNICEF goodwill ambassador for the polio eradication campaign in India in 2002,

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  India's Aadhaar doesn't pose any privacy issue, says Microsoft founder Bill Gates

  World | May 03, 2018 14:46 IST

  Asked if India's Aadhaar technology is worth emulating by other countries, he replied, "Yes". "The benefits of that (basic ID -- Aadhaar) are very high," Bill Gates said.