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April 26, 2023 12:18 PM IST The study is the first to demonstrate an association between poor air quality and cognitive problems in infants under two years of age, when brain growth is at its peak.
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October 20, 2022 10:04 AM IST The report backed by the US AID for International Development and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation bats for a reliable national oxygen grid with multiple generation and storage components, and a network for a smooth flow from surplus to deficit areas.
- July 26, 2022 07:56 AM IST
Bill Gates gave away shares worth $6 billion this week in his bid to get off the list of world’s richest people.
- July 20, 2022 02:55 PM IST
"Congratulations Narendra Modi for yet another milestone of administering #200crorevaccinations," wrote Bill Gates on Twitter.
- June 15, 2022 03:01 PM IST
Bill Gates thanked Warren Buffett for the donation, and his many years of friendship, in a Twitter post.
- February 03, 2022 03:35 PM IST
Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates had encouraged the rich to sign their Giving Pledge initiative to donate their wealth to charitable causes.
- May 06, 2021 02:08 PM IST
After the news on May 3, grant recipients and staff members alike wondered what would happen. But, the message from the headquarters in Seattle was clear: Bill and Melinda Gates may be splitting up, but the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation isn’t going anywhere.
- May 05, 2021 06:30 PM IST
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda announced that they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage. Here’s a quick look at their philanthropic work in India.
- May 04, 2021 10:21 AM IST
Over the years, Melinda Gates has increasingly built her profile as a champion of women and girls.
- May 04, 2021 08:10 AM IST
Announcement of Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce evoked comparison with that of Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott, another high-profile Seattle-area billionaire couple to part ways in recent years.
- May 04, 2021 10:06 AM IST
The couple run the US-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the most influential private foundations in the world, with an endowment worth nearly $50 billion.
- November 23, 2020 01:55 PM IST
If the initiative, aided by Bill Gates’ fortune and focus, manages to help protect the world’s poor from a virus that has already killed more than 1.3 million people, it will affirm the strategies he has promoted in his philanthropic work.
- September 17, 2020 09:43 PM IST
Supply deals have already been agreed for 5.303 billion doses, of which 2.728 billion (51 percent) have been bought by developed countries including the UK, US, Australia, Hong Kong & Macau, Japan, Switzerland and Israel, as well as the European Union
- August 07, 2020 08:57 PM IST
For this, the Gates Foundation will provide an at-risk funding of $150 million to GAVI, with the pricing capped at a maximum of $3 per dose.
- November 19, 2019 07:41 PM IST
The new collaborative will focus on improving health and nutrition in high-burden and tribal districts, in support of the Government of India's work to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 by 2030.
- September 25, 2019 02:33 PM IST
Netizens were touched by Modi's gesture of dedicating the award to 130 crore Indians and dubbing it a people's movement
- September 25, 2019 07:44 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi dedicated the award to those who transformed the Swachh Bharat campaign into a "people's movement"
- September 17, 2019 08:05 PM IST
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphio Rio also congratulated Nyekha for her feat
- September 03, 2019 09:39 AM IST
The minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office said the award will be given to PM Modi when he visits the United States this month
- November 17, 2016 10:17 PM IST
Big food companies like Cargill, Future group and Tata Global Beverages have shown interest in launching fortified food items to fight malnutrition, a top official of food safety regulator FSSAI today said.
- June 06, 2016 10:08 PM IST
The organisation believes the Gates foundation is not doing philanthropy but instead is serving the interest of big corporate houses.
- March 14, 2016 06:35 PM IST
According to gates, every company needs to have a strong family leave policy which will help address the issue of redistribution of certain household work like caring for children and the elderly. Not just women, but men too should be encouraged to take leave to spend time with their children.
- February 23, 2016 11:07 AM IST
The world's wealthiest foundation, chaired by the Microsoft Corp co-founder and his wife, has helped make great strides against diseases among the world's poorest nations. It distributed grants of nearly USD 4 billion in 2014 and had USD 43.5 billion at the end of 2014, according to latest available figures.
- December 10, 2014 04:10 PM IST
The Berkshire Hathaway, CEO and legendary investor made the single biggest charitable donation this year, giving USD 2.1 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of 16.6 million shares of his company.
- December 10, 2014 01:24 PM IST
Nicholas Woodman, GoPro Founder, CEO and Chairman was ranked second on the list as he along with his spouse donated USD 497.5 million to Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Eight of the top 10 donations of 2014 were made by American philanthropists
