Bengaluru, June 22 : Lenovo India on Friday announced the appointment of industry veteran Pankaj Harjai as Director of its tablets business.

In this capacity, Harjai will also be responsible for introducing the next generation augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) and smart products in India, the company said in a statement.

In his career spanning about two decades, Harjai has worked in diverse organisations and specialised in areas such as channel management, strategy, sales, and product management. Harjai has been with Lenovo for more than five years.

Lenovo India said Harjai would also lead the company's Customer Centricity (CX) transformation project that strives to create quality in-store and service experience for the customers.

"I am extremely excited and look forward to this new opportunity. It will be challenging to lead the organisation's two important transformations, Customer Centricity and the foray into the next generation of products," Harjai said on his appointment.

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Perth (PTI): India were all out for 150 at tea on the first day of the opening Test against Australia here.

India, who elected to bat, lost six wickets in the second session which had 24.4 overs.

Debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy top-scored with 41 off 59 balls. Rishabh Pant (37), Dhruv Jurel (11), Washington Sundar (4), another debutant Harshit Rana and captain Jasprit Bumrah (8) were the other five Indian batters to be dismissed in the post-lunch session.

For Australia, Josh Hazlewood (4/29), Mitchell Starc (2/14), Mitchell Marsh (2/12) and captain Pat Cummins (2/67) were the wicket-takers.

Earlier, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and one-down Devdutt Padikkal failed to open accounts in their first Test outings in Australia while star batter Virat Kohli was dismissed for 5 after facing 12 balls.

The other opener, KL Rahul, got out to a controversial caught behind decision just before lunch after scoring 26 off 74 balls.

Brief Scores:

India: 150 all out in 49.4 overs (KL Rahul 26, Rishabh Pant 37, Nitish Kumar Reddy 41; Josh Hazlewood 4/29).