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Microsoft, Gates Foundation collaborates with Maha govt on digital governance model

Microsoft’s co-founder and renowned philanthropist Bill Gates along with representatives from the Gates Foundation met Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis

The Gates Foundation also said that they will partner in sustainable energy initiatives in Maharashtra. (PTI photo)

Published on Mar 20, 2025 04:38 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

AP govt signs MoU with Gates Foundation for tech support in state programmes

The move formalises a strategic collaboration in which the Gates Foundation will provide support to implementation partners for targeted interventions within state-driven programmes.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu with Bill Gates.

Published on Mar 19, 2025 04:00 PM IST

BySrinivasa Rao Apparasu

Bill Gates reveals he worked 80-hour weeks coding software for Microsoft

Bill Gates revealed he worked 80-hour weeks at Microsoft for years, fearing failure even after becoming a billionaire.

Bill Gates admits working 80-hour weeks at Microsoft for years without feeling secure.(AP)

Updated on Feb 10, 2025 09:09 AM IST

ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

No room for the Gates Foundation in Warren Buffett's will

Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett has other plans after his death, which leave no room for donations to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in his will.

FILE PHOTO: Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Warren Buffett listens while Bill and Melinda Gates look on during a news conference in New York June 26, 2006. (REUTERS)

Published on Jun 29, 2024 08:43 PM IST

ByAshima Grover

US vaccine hopeful of using Gates Foundation cash to prepare for human trial

Harvard University scientist Luk Vandenberghe and University of Pennsylvania gene therapy head James Wilson said primate safety and efficacy tests have proven promising for their single-dose candidate, targeted for room-temperature storage.

Their candidate relies on an adeno-associated virus (AAV), deemed harmless to humans, to deliver DNA fragments from the new coronavirus, telling human cells to make a protein that provokes an immune response. (Representative Image)(AP)

Published on Jan 29, 2021 06:01 PM IST

Reuters |

Gates Foundation pledges $250 mn more for fight against Covid-19

“Whether (the world) gets better for everyone depends on the actions of the world’s leaders and their commitment to deliver tests, treatments and vaccines to the people who need them,” said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation.

The Gates Foundation’s latest contribution, its largest till date, comes on top of the $70 million funding that it added in November. This brings its total commitments to the global pandemic response to $1.75 billion, the foundation said.(Reuters file photo)

Updated on Dec 10, 2020 12:39 PM IST

ByReuters| Posted by: Harshit Sabarwal

Very large portion of Covid-19 vaccines likely to be manufactured in India: Gates Foundation CEO

Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said that the foundation had been working to support a lot of work around diagnostics as well.

Mark Suzman said the biggest learning from the pandemic is that at all levels, global, regional, national, there needs to be a permanent infrastructure in place that is prepared and ready to go which will keep the world much better prepared for the next one(REUTERS (Representative Image))

Updated on Oct 21, 2020 01:49 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India | Posted by Nilavro Ghosh

Covid-19 has set global health progress back decades: Gates Foundation

Because of Covid-19, extreme poverty has increased by 7%, and routine vaccine coverage - a good proxy measure for how health systems are functioning - is dropping to levels last seen in the 1990s, the report said.

It found that the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women, racial and ethnic minority communities and people living in extreme poverty.(HT Photo)

Published on Sep 15, 2020 08:43 AM IST

London | ByReuters| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi

J&J in talks with Japan, Gates Foundation to lock in deals on Covid-19 vaccine

More than a hundred vaccines are under development to try and stop the Covid-19 pandemic, and drugmakers including J&J are working to ramp up supply for their vaccines in the face of unprecedented demand.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would focus on allocating any vaccine it acquired to developing countries, Wolk added(AFP)

Published on Jul 16, 2020 10:33 PM IST

Reuters | ByReuters| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi

Rajasthan girl gets Changemaker Award at Gates Foundation event

Jangid soon won support from her peers in school and formed a “bal panchayat” (youth council) and was elected sarpanch (head).

Youth activist Payal Jangid, 17, from Rajasthan, won the Changemaker Award for her fight against child marriage and child labour in her village.

Updated on Sep 26, 2019 04:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New York | BySanchita Sharma

India exemplar in using sanitation, digital tech to improve lives: Bill Gates

Sanitation and India’s “innovative and thoughtful” use of digital technology to make people’s lives better are the areas where the Gates Foundation thinks India has made progress.

File photo of Bill Gates(AFP File Photo)

Updated on Sep 18, 2019 11:29 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySanchita Sharma

Gates Foundation to support Bihar beyond 2021, says health minister

The minister said that Melinda told the Bihar delegation that the ongoing project in the state was very close to her and Bill Gates’s heart.

Melinda and Bill Gates at a village in Patna district.(AFP File Photo)

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 12:34 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Patna | ByArun Kumar

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

Ashok Alexander, who headed the Gates Foundation’s HIV/AIDS prevention programme Avahan for over 10 years, has mentioned in his book true stories of the lives of sex workers in India that are about finding hope and redemption amid heartbreak and despair.

An Indian sex worker’s tale brought Bill Gates to tears, recalled Ashok Alexander, who headed the Gates Foundation’s HIV/AIDS prevention programme Avahan for over 10 years.(REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 01, 2018 05:37 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

Aid of $6,00,000 to be sent to UNICEF for Kerala relief operations: Gates Foundation

The emergency grant aims to bolster government efforts and initiatives by non-governmental organisations in the enormous task of assisting displaced, flood-affected people and helping them rebuild their lives.

Trees and houses partially submerged in floodwaters in this aerial photograph taken in Kainakary village in the district of Alappuzha, Kerala, on August 23.(Bloomberg file photo)

Updated on Aug 24, 2018 08:35 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Scientists develop kit to predict pre-mature birth

Premature births, one of the leading cause of death of children under five years of age.

(Representative Image)

Updated on Jun 17, 2018 12:28 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Head of Gates Foundation posted on RBI board, RSS affiliate says conflict of interest

The Gates Foundation has been in the crosshairs of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, which had alleged conflict of interest in the health ministry for signing a MoU with the US billionaire-couple’s charity.

Melinda and Bill Gates, co-founders of Gates Foundation. Last year the Gates foundation head Nachiket Mor’s reappointment as a member of the RBI eastern local board was approved and he was nominated to its central board.(Reuters File Photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2018 10:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySmriti Kak Ramachandran

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