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Dec 22, 2021 Outlook Web Desk In a series of tweets, business tycoon Bill Gates raised concern over the rapid spread of Omicron.
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Nov 02, 2021 Outlook Web Desk Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the side-lines of UN conference on climate change.
As wishes pour in from various countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanks world leaders for hailing India's feat of crossing 100 crore Covid vaccine doses.
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Oct 19, 2021 Associated Press (AP) Brad Smith, then Microsoft's general counsel and now its president and vice chair, along with another executive met with Bill Gates after the company discovered inappropriate emails to a mid-level employee.
Buffett’s move comes just days after Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce
The Journal reported that Gates resigned before the board's investigation was finished, citing another person familiar with the matter.
Bill and Melinda Gates were married in 1994 in Hawaii. They met after Melinda began working at Microsoft as a product manager in 1987.
Last year, Elon Musk's net worth soared by more than $150 billion in possibly the fastest bout of wealth creation in history.
Global recognition poured in after PM Modi said the world's biggest inoculation drive against coronavirus was set to begin in the country.
The Covid-19 has so far killed more than 290,000 people in the US.
Bill Gates said the world is looking to India for large scale production of COVID-19 vaccine once it is rolled out.
The speed with which RIL shares are rising and looking at its further potential, it is a matter of months before Ambani, who is currently world’s 5th richest person with a fortune of $81 billion, overtakes Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton.
Breathing polluted air kills almost 2 million Indians each year and seriously shortens the lives of another 5-7 million annually.
Gates, in a letter to Modi, said he was glad that the Indian government is fully utilizing its exceptional digital capabilities in its COVID-19 response and has launched the 'Aarogya Setu' digital app for coronavirus tracking.
Bill Gates owns 1.36 per cent of the shares in Microsoft, a company with a market capitalization of $1.21 trillion,
While Smriti Irani and Bill Gates joined hands to create a repository of heirloom crops, the UNICEF brought out a booklet of healthy, trendy and pocket-friendly recipes.
Over 11 crore toilets were built in the country in the last five years, PM Modi said.
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Jan 15, 2022 Saikat Majumdar 
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Jan 08, 2022 Rakhi Bose 
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
Jan 01, 2022 Saikat Majumdar 
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.
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