Gates mixes business, philanthropy during visit Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, right, with children who have benefited from the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation's vaccine program, in New Delhi on Sept. 14. B ill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft, launched an India-specific portal and unveiled plans to set up a laboratory in Bangalore for Internet applications, during his whirlwind visit to India last week to mark 10 years of the company's presence in the country. Olympics Tennis ace Leander Paes, bronze medal winner at the Atlanta Olympics, leading the Indian contingent at the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Games at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney on Sept. 15. India is participating in 12 disciplines. T he first Olympics of the millennium began last week with a spectacular opening ceremony, but there was only disappointment for the Indians as the medal hunt actually began, Christopher Sammy reports from Sydney.
All eyes are now on the hockey team.
This was the view of participants at a major global conference on the impact of the Net on the print media last week, Imran Qureshi reports from Bangalore. Among the participants were Roger Parkinson, president, World Association of Newspapers, and Arun Jaitley, Union information and broadcasting minister. Full Story TOP OF THE WEEK Wooing Washington Photo left, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, seated, with President Bill Clinton, right, at the White House on Sept. 15. The two leaders, in a joint statement, have pledged to build on the new momentum in India-U.S. relations. Photo above, Vajpayee with Vice President Al Gore at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Sept 15.