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 Bill Gates hosted nude pool parties and 'got drunk pretty easily,' insiders say MELKORKA LICEAJUL 1, 2021, 03:18 IST Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Bill Gates went to a Seattle all-nude strip club and invited them to come swim in his pool, according to biographer James Wallace. Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage in May. Reports that Gates had an affair and accusations he had hit on Microsoft employees quickly followed. During Microsoft's early days in the late 80's and early 90's, Bill Gates had a propensity for partying, insiders said. On more than one occasion, during nights he wasn't working his usual 17-hour days, he invited friends and dancers from local all-nude nightclubs to swim naked at his Laurelhurst bachelor pad overlooking Lake Washington, James Wallace, who wrote two biographies on Gates, said. TOP VIDEOS FOR YOU 03:44 VIDEO: Why the Miami condo may have collapsed, and how ...

 Supreme Court pulls up government on COVID-19 ex gratia Krishnadas RajagopalNEW DELHI: , JUNE 30, 2021 12:35 IST UPDATED: JUNE 30, 2021 22:39 IST SHARE ARTICLEPRINTA A A A view of the Supreme Court of India. File   | Photo Credit: S. Subramanium It gives the National Disaster Management Authority 6 weeks to fix rules for compensation to COVID-19 victims’ kin. The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), of which the Prime Minister is the ex officio chairperson, for “failing to perform its duty” to recommend ex gratia assistance for families of those who lost their loved ones to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also read: ₹10 lakh corpus fund for every child orphaned by COVID-19 “The National Authority [NDMA] failed to perform its duty,” the Supreme Court held. A Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan gave the NDMA six weeks to frame the guidelines for fixing the ex gratia meant for these families. The court, however, left it to the “wisdo...

 Bill Gates-Melinda Gates divorce: Major TWIST in split of billionaire couple - Read here The divorce means that Bill and Melinda Gates will now split their USD 148 billion fortune that includes private mansions and other assets. Bill Gates-Melinda Gates divorce: Major TWIST in split of billionaire couple - Read here SHARE    WRITTEN BY DNA Web Team   EDITED BY Tanweer Azam SOURCE DNA webdesk Updated: Jun 16, 2021, 10:27 AM IST Sponsored LinksYou May Like People in Medak Are Choosing to Donate Meals Like This Akshaya Patra Now A Term Plan Which Also Gives Your Premiums Back Max Life Insurance Quotes This Cricket Batsman Was one of the Greatest Who Ever Lived Stadium Talk by Taboola Billionaire power couple Bill Gates and Melinda Gates left everyone in deep shock when they took to Twitter on May 4 to announce their separation after remaining married for 27 years. The divorce means that Bill and Melinda Gates will now split their USD 148 billion fortune that includes p...

Unmaking of Bill Gates: Covid 19 vaccine views, divorce, Epstein link, alleged affairs taint a tech legacy Bill Gates is a hard-working tech genius, a quintessential family man and the world's top philanthropist. Or so it seemed before 2021, the year when a divorce, controversy over Covid-19 vaccines and allegations of office affairs surround him. ADVERTISEMENT Yasmin Ahmed  New Delhi May 18, 2021UPDATED: May 18, 2021 13:08 IST   (Picture: Reuters) HIGHLIGHTS Recent reports allege that Bill Gates made advances towards women at Microsoft. The reports come just weeks after Bill Gates and Melinda Gates announced their divorce. Earlier, Bill Gates was under fire for his stance on Covid-19 vaccines and related patents. In world technology, the enfant terribles are plenty. It is considered the price a genius pays. Or in other words, it is what geniuses are: flawed. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg. Sergei Brin and countless others. But in the midst of all of them, one man pers...

 ‘Vaccine racist’: Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine tech with developing nations, draws ire Bill Gates was asked if it would be better to share intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines with developing countries. To this, he answered no. REGINA MIHINDUKULASURIYA 1 May, 2021 11:36 am IST Bill Gates File image of Bill Gates | Wikimedia Commons Text Size: A- A+ New Delhi: As India battles the deadly second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates’ recent remarks on patents in vaccine technology have sparked a row. Gates, in an interview on 25 April with British news broadcaster Sky News, was asked if it would be better to share intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines with developing countries. To this, he answered, no. “The thing that’s holding things back, in this case, is not intellectual property… It’s not like there’s some idle vaccine factory, with regulatory approval, that makes magically safe vaccines,” Gates was quoted a...

 Posted: Monday, 22 June 2020 21:50 If you Like this article, please click  Email This Article Andhra Pradesh inching towards total Prohibition June 22: If one took cognisance of the recent statement by Mr. K Narayanaswamy, one of the five Deputy Chief Ministers of Andhra, who stated that total prohibition will be implemented in the state in a phased manner, yet another State would fall in Red Zone (prohibition), writes Subhash Arora who feels the experiment would fail again as it did in 1997 when N. Chandrababu Naidu repealed the prohibition after being introduced by N. T Rama Rao in 1994 in the undivided Andhra Pradesh that included Telangana The minister did qualify his statement by saying that there would be some relaxations to certain categories and one hopes it would include wine and beer. He also said that by reducing the number of wine shops (these are actually liquor shops in India), the government had lost a revenue of around Rs.1400 crores (Rs. 14 billion). The Depu...

 కృష్ణా, గోల్కొండ ఎక్స్‌ప్రెస్‌లలో మహిళలు మద్యం అక్రమ రవాణా  మద్యం రాకెట్‌కు రైల్వే నిఘా సంస్థల సహకారం పట్టించుకోని ఎన్‌ఫోర్స్‌మెంట్‌, విజిలెన్స్‌, జీఆర్పీ, ఆర్పీఎఫ్‌ ఇంటెలిజెన్స్‌ నివేదికలు ఇచ్చినా బుట్టదాఖలు విజయవాడ, ఆంధ్రజ్యోతి: అక్రమ రవాణాకు రైళ్లు కేరాఫ్‌ అడ్రస్‌గా మారుతున్నాయి. మొన్నటికి మొన్న బిల్లులు లేని ఉత్పత్తులు, నిన్నటికి నిన్న గుట్కా ప్యాకెట్లు, నేడు ఏకంగా మద్యం బాటిళ్లనే తరలించేస్తున్నారు. ఈ చీకటి వ్యవహారాలపై రైల్వే ఇంటెలిజెన్స్‌ విభాగం ఎప్పటికప్పుడు రైల్వేశాఖకు, స్పెషల్‌ ఎన్‌ఫోర్స్‌మెంట్‌కు, జీఆర్‌ఈ, ఆర్పీఎఫ్‌లకు నివేదిస్తున్నా పట్టించుకోవట్లేదు. సంబంధిత శాఖల లాలూచీతోనే ఈ కార్యకలాపాలు యథేచ్ఛగా జరుగుతున్నాయన్న ఆరోపణలు వస్తున్నాయి. తాజాగా తెలంగాణ నుంచి రెండు రైళ్లలో మద్యాన్ని అక్రమంగా తరలిస్తున్నా పట్టించుకోకపోవటం అనుమానాలకు తావిస్తోంది.  ఆ రెండు రైళ్లే టార్గెట్‌ ‘తెలంగాణ నుంచి బెజవాడకు రైళ్లలో అక్రమంగా మద్యం తరలివస్తోంది.’ దక్షి ణ మధ్య రైల్వే జీఎం, బెజవాడ డివిజన్‌ అధికారులతో పాటు నిఘా సంస్థలకు రైల్వే ఇంటెలిజెన్స్‌ విభాగం ఇచ్చిన సమాచారం ఇది. కృష్ణా ఎక్స్‌ప్ర...

Central government's tax collection on petrol, diesel jumps 300% in six years Mar 22, 2021, 19:07 IST NEW DELHI: Central government's tax collections on petrol and diesel have jumped over 300 per cent in the last six as excise duty on the two fuels was hiked, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. The central government collected Rs 29,279 crore from excise duty on petrol and Rs 42,881 crore on diesel in 2014-15 -- the first year of office of the Modi government. The collections on petrol and diesel rose to Rs 2.94 lakh crore in the first 10 months of the current fiscal (2020-21), according to information furnished by minister of state Anurag Singh Thakur in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha. Together with excise duty on natural gas, the central government in 2014-15 collected Rs 74,158 crore which has gone up to Rs Rs 2.95 lakh crore in April 2020 to January 2021 period. He said taxes collected on petrol, diesel and natural gas as a percentage of total revenue have...

  Here’s why fuel prices in India may not come down in a big way ⁠— at least not this year SANYA SINGH JUN 7, 2021, 12:39 IST BCCL The price of petrol and diesel in India hit a new high on June 4, with petrol pumps in Mumbai charging ₹101 per litre. There are at least five factors that determine the final retail price of fuel, petrol or diesel. Last week, the price of Brent crude was at its highest levels since May 2019 crossing the $71 per barrel mark. Fuel prices hit another all-time high on June 7 with petrol in Delhi costing ₹94.46 per litre and in Mumbai costing ₹101 per litre. The retail price of how much it costs to fuel your car has jumped by 4% in the past one month. While many are hoping that this is just a temporary surge, petrol is unlikely to get cheaper, by any significant amount, this year. The net effect of the rise in fuel prices ⁠— or if they remain high for too long ⁠— is bad for the economy because the ripple effect can make other things expensive. Which is why,...