India-born former Google executive Nikesh Arora has been appointed the president of Japan’s telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp that paid the “rising star” a whopping $135 million (Rs 850.5 crore at 1 dollar = 63 rupees) for the financial year 2014. Mr Arora, 47, was appointed company president and chief operating officer at a general meeting of shareholders here on Friday. In a management reshuffle last month, Mr Arora – […]

  Washington: Groundwater is disappearing fast from the world and India is among the worst hit, shows data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. Among the world’s largest groundwater basins, the Indus Basin aquifer of India and Pakistan, which is a source of fresh water for millions of people, is the second-most overstressed with no natural replenishment to offset usage, said two new studies led by the […]

The Humans of Bombay Facebook page often shares some beautiful and inspiring stories. This one is definitely among them. A post shared a few hours ago tells the story of 16-year-old maverick Angad Daryani who quit regular school to learn from the school of life. “I dropped out of school when I was in the 9th grade, because I didn’t want to rote learn concepts anymore,” says the teen in […]

  Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for the upcoming animated sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 starring Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the movie features returning patrons of the titular Hotel Transylvania who are trying hard to remain as monstrous as they once were. But the task seems more difficult than they had perhaps imagined. Why? Since their characters went through a grand arc of self […]

Nato has condemned Russia’s move to strengthen its nuclear arsenal, saying it amounted to “nuclear sabre-rattling” and was “unjustified” and “dangerous”. President Vladimir Putin said Russia would put more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles into service this year. It is part of a wide-reaching programme to modernise the country’s military. The move comes after the US proposed increasing its military presence in Nato states in Eastern Europe. Tensions are […]

“How you finish the workday is very important,” says Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of “You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work.” Below are the 14 things successful people do in the last 10 minutes of workday. 1. They update their to-do lists. Successful professionals always keep an eye on their ever-changing to-do lists, explains Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of “Tame […]

Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals have escaped from the zoo in Georgia’s capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to say inside on Sunday. At least eight people have been killed in the disaster, including three zoo workers, and 10 are missing. An escaped hippo was cornered in one of the city’s main squares and subdued with a tranquilizer gun, the […]

  The Cold War set spy movie features Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill as spies from the KGB and CIA respectively who must combine forces against a common enemy (a terrorist organisation with an atom bomb). The key to the puzzle: Alicia Vikander’s femme-fatale. Ritchie’s trademark kinetic style, colourful characters, larger-than-life locations and over-the-top action are on full display as the titular men embark on a globe-trotting adventure filled with […]

It’s no surprise a baby wouldn’t want to let go of his mama while she underwent emergency surgery. It’s probably rare that hospital staff would let the baby cling to her during the procedure. That’s what staff at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital did when Phantom, a 6-month-old koala joey, wouldn’t let go of his mother during her recent operation for a collapsed lung, according to The Courier-Mail. After being […]

  I’m very proud that Virgin Management has introduced a new initiative giving all employees in our London and Geneva offices a year’s full pay for shared parental leave. It was great to see the UK government introduce the new Shared Parental Leave legislation this year, but we wanted to take it a step further by giving all employees at Virgin Management with four years or more service, enhanced shared […]