A top engineering executive at Uber, Amit Singhal, is out five weeks after his hire was announced. According to a report in the tech blog Recode, Singhal failed to disclose that he'd left his previous job at Google because of a sexual harassment allegation. Singhal denied the allegation and said he left Google a year ago for his own reasons. The dustup is just the latest sign of turmoil at Uber, which last week found itself in an unrelated sexual harassment firestorm . Also Read: Employee alleges sexual harassment at Uber, CEO says probe neededIn a statement emailed to The Associated Press, Singhal said: "Harassment is unacceptable in any setting.

Source: India Today February 28, 2017 05:29 UTC