SoftBank Group said on Wednesday that Ken Miyauchi, head of the group’s Japanese telecommunications operations, would become president and chief operating officer to replace Nikesh Arora. Mr. Arora, the former Google executive handpicked by the SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son as his successor, has abruptly quit as president after it became clear that Mr. Son wanted to remain at the helm […]
» Read moreA 19-year-old British man has been charged with the offence of trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a complaint filed in the federal court in Nevada, Michael Sandford tried to disarm the officer at Saturday’s rally at the […]
» Read moreOmar Mateen, the Afghan-origin gunman who killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in U.S.’ deadliest mass shooting incident, pledged allegiance to ISIS in a phone call to emergency number 911 during the attack. Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard who was born in New York to Afghan parents, called 911 after his initial assault on the […]
» Read moreAs the extraordinary two-day plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group began in Vienna on Thursday to discuss membership applications, India’s chances received a boost from Mexico, considered a “non-proliferation hardliner” thus far. “As a country we are going to be positively and constructively supporting India’s (membership at the NSG) in recognition of the commitment by PM Modi to the International […]
» Read moreAfter a series of celebrity Twitter handle hacks over the past weeks, Evan Williams , the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, had his account briefly compromised, a media report said. A group by the name of OurMine — the same group that claimed credit for compromising Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts on Monday — took credit for hacking […]
» Read moreIndia will soon open its sixth consulate in Seattle to cater to the needs of large number of Indian-Americans living in the northwestern part of the U.S. “We hope to open a new Indian consulate in Seattle,” Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said after the conclusion of the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Barack Obama at […]
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