Indian envoy warns of 'big red line,' days after charges laid in Nijjar case
India's envoy to Canada insists relations between the two countries are positive overall, despite what he describes as 'a lot of noise.'
U.S. business mogul Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc, is set to launch into space aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on Tuesday, nine days after rival Richard Branson became the first billionaire astronaut.
Here is a look at Bezos' life, from building an ecommerce startup in a garage in the suburbs of Seattle, to launching into space, a dream the entrepreneur has had since he was 5 years old.
1964: On Jan. 12, Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen is born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Jacklyn Gise and Ted Jorgensen and is later adopted by Miguel Bezos
1986: Graduates from Princeton University after studying electrical engineering and computer science
1990: Joins investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co, soon named the firm's youngest senior vice president
1993: Marries MacKenzie Tuttle, whom he met at D.E. Shaw
1994: Bezos, who called himself a "garage inventor" from a young age, quits D.E. Shaw, moves to Seattle to open a virtual bookstore out of a garage
1995: Amazon.com sells its first book, begins to rapidly expand and diversify
2000: Bezos sets up his rocket startup Blue Origin
2006: Amazon introduces cloud computing service Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Unbox, the original video programming service to be later renamed to Amazon Prime Video
2007: Amazon releases Kindle, a portable digital reading device
2012: Blue Origin begins flight testing New Shepard
2019: Jeff and MacKenzie file for divorce after 25 years of marriage; the couple has four children together
2021: Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon on July 5, but remains executive chairman of ecommerce giant, with a net worth of over $206 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
(Editing by Will Dunham)
India's envoy to Canada insists relations between the two countries are positive overall, despite what he describes as 'a lot of noise.'
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