Bill Gates joins Independence Day celebrations in Seattle, calls India a ‘global leader’ in innovations

Seattle: Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined Indian Americans as the guest of honour at the first-ever Independence Day celebrations at the newly-opened Indian Consulate in Seattle, where he called India a “global leader” with breakthrough innovations. He flagged off the first India Day celebrations in the Greater Seattle area with Indian Consul General in Seattle Prakash Gupta on India’s 78th Independence Day.