Bill Gates visits
India

IEO
NewsDesk
Photo
Feature
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| William
H Gates III, CEO of Microsoft Corporation,
visited the Indian Prime Minister, Deve Gowda, as
part of his visit to India as state guest. |
| The
Indian PM had invited Bill Gates to visit India
when the two met at Davos recently. |
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| Bill
Gates with the Indian Finance Minister, P
Chidambaram. Mr.Chidambaram's recent budget
removed all import duties for software, giving
Gates reason to smile. |
| The
world's richest man and the Finance Minister of
India - Is India's fiscal deficit anywhere near
Gates' net worth? |
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| Gates
shakes hands with one of the winners of the
Microsoft "Imagine
the Magic" contest.
Meeting Bill Gates was part of the prize. |
| Gates
awarded prizes to the 8 winners chosen from over
40,000 contestants of the age group 8-18 years. |
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| Bill
Gates and Microsoft India country manager Rajiv
Nair address a press conference in New Delhi. |
| Gates
is not only the Microsoft CEO, he is also the
company's best salesman and most effective PR
person... and his visit to India is essentially a
PR move. |
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Report dated: 4th
March, 1997
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