Chinese player HOMTOM appoints product head for India
New Delhi, July 11: China-based handset maker HOMTOM that came to India last month on Wednesday announced to appoint Nikhil Bhutani as India Director for its product and operations.
Prior to joining HOMTOM, Bhutani has worked as the Regional Head of Ziox Mobile.
"We emphasise upon bringing superior-quality devices, loaded with latest features, at affordable prices to the Indian market in line with the brand's vision of offering 'smarterphone's for a smarter India," Bhutani said in a statement.
Part of Shenzhen Zhouji Hengtong Technology Co Ltd and incepted in 2013, HOMTOM offers original design manufacturing (ODM) services to smartphone companies globally.
The company debuted in India with five mid-price smartphones starting at Rs 8,000 and has plans to manufacture handsets in India.
"We are elated to have Nikhil on board with HOMTOM. With our new office now operational in Noida, we are planning to launch 'smarterphones' in mid to high-end segments," said Gary Zhang, CEO, HOMTOM.
As an R&D company, HOMTOM claims to hold more than 100 patents globally.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
