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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Topic: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates & Melinda French Gates have 2 years to decide if they can share foundation

New York: Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates’s divorce is shaping up to have a more profound impact on their $50 billion foundation than...

Michael Larson, manager of Gates’ $170 billion who was supposed to keep them out of the news

Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce announcement cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson allegedly harassed & bullied some employees.

Kalpana Kochhar — Chennai-born economist leaving IMF, who helped India post 2008 crisis

Kalpana Kochhar will be retiring from the IMF next month to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as Director of Development Policy and Finance.

Indian economist Kalpana Kochhar joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Kochhar, who spent 3 decades at IMF, will retire on 30 July, and will join as Director of Development Policy and Finance, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Serum Institute will deliver 10 crore more doses of Covid vaccine to India, other countries

Pune-based Serum Institute of India has already committed to supplying 10 crore doses of the vaccine at a price of about Rs 225 per dose.

Serum Institute ties up with Gates Foundation for 10 crore doses of Covid vaccine

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide around Rs 1,125 crore funding to produce and supply around 10 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine at Rs 224 each.

Using parliamentary reports as evidence is not a breach of MPs’ privilege, rules SC

Five-judge Constitution bench answers questions raised by govt & pharma companies. Original case sought probe into vaccine trials conducted on tribal girls.

Despite initial hiccups, Swachh Bharat mission scores on health report card

Study reveals health indicators for children, women have shown improvement in areas that have become open defecation-free in the past year.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.