The apology came weeks after the US Department of Justice made public documents that indicated meetings took place between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein after the latter was jailed for sex offences.
Sources indicate that major changes are likely in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council, as well as in the team of newly-appointed BJP president Nitin Nabin, “anytime after Holi, around March–April.” They also point out that Puri’s second Rajya Sabha term is scheduled to end on November 25, 2026.
The foundation said Ankur Vora will represent it at the summit, reiterating its commitment to ongoing health and development initiatives in India.
Amid reports about his name being dropped from the Global Visionaries list of the India AI Summit, a Gates Foundation spokesperson clarified that the Microsoft co-founder will deliver his keynote address as per the schedule.
Gates was initially listed among key participants alongside OpenAI's Sam Altman and Google's Sundar Pichai.
Gates was received at Gannavaram Airport by the state IT minister, Nara Lokesh. He then went to the state Secretariat, where he was welcomed by the chief minister, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan and the other ministers.
When Bill Gates appears in a Hindi television serial alongside actress and former union minister Smriti Irani, it marks more than an unlikely cultural crossover between Silicon Valley and suburban India.
Billionaire Bill Gates makes a special cameo on 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi', greeting Tulsi with a warm “Jai Shri Krishna” and sharing a heartfelt message about health and care.
The sequence begins with an invitation Tulsi receives to her cook’s baby shower. Then the event unexpectedly connects her to one of the world’s most influential figures.
Despite all the reverential mythification and mystification of Gurukul and studious, scholarly students, Plato’s academy and Socratic dialogue, literary representations of schools and teachers have often opted for satire, irony, humour and outright abrasive criticism.
