Ecstatic at the success of its Rs 199 mobile-only plan that it launched in India in August, Netflix is going to replicate the plan in other global markets too, the company’s Chief Product Officer Gregory K Peters has said. The Rs 199 mobile subscription plan in the Indian market is Netflix’s […]
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Malware sending 30,000 ‘sextortion’ emails per hour
A malware is sending 30,000 sextortion emails per hour after taking over people’s inboxes and have, till date, sent 27 million such emails to innocent persons with a threat to expose sexual content captured via their webcams for blackmail payments. Global cybersecurity company Check Point on Thursday said after a five-month research […]
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Google Assistant bug could be draining your phone’s battery
Google’s voice assistant is causing serious problems for some Android users. The Google Assistant trigger phrase ‘Ok Google’ is waking up the wrong devices and leaving the screen on. Android Police writers have discovered Google Assistant launching on smartphones when it was actually used for other devices like Google Home and […]
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35 foreigners killed in bus crash near Saudi holy city of Medina
Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus collided with another heavy vehicle near the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday. The accident on Wednesday involved a collision between “a private chartered bus… with a heavy vehicle (loader)” near the western Saudi […]
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India, China talk education, recognising degrees
India and China are discussing an agreement on mutual recognition of degrees and exchange of faculty, an official statement said on Wednesday as education officials from the two countries met for the first time under a new bilateral mechanism. Top officials from the educational ministries of India and China also […]
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BSF jawan killed, 1 injured along India-Bangladesh border in Bengal
A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was killed, while another injured on Thursday in firing “apparently” by the BGB troops of Bangladesh along the international border of the two countries in West Bengal, officials said. They said the BSF head constable has been killed along the border in the Murshidabad […]
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‘Denied him water, kept me at gunpoint’: Minor recounts father’s torture in UP police custody
“More than 10 policemen were beating up my father. They gave him electric shocks and also stabbed him with screwdrivers. The policemen were also drinking alcohol and they denied water to my father who was crying in pain. I was given a packet of chips to keep quiet at gunpoint.” […]
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Man caught dancing with two guns in Haridwar, video goes viral
A video of a man dancing with two guns in his hand has gone viral following which police has ordered an investigation to ascertain facts about the same. In the viral video, a man can be seen dancing on a Hindi song while carrying two guns. The short video seems […]
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Ex-Rajasthan minister summoned by court for allegedly slapping IAS 22 years ago
Twenty-two years after a former minister in the Rajasthan government allegedly slapped an IAS officer, the CID-CB has presented it’s chargesheet in a Jaipur court. The additional chief judicial metropolitan magistrate court 11 has summoned former BJP leader and ex-minister Devi Singh Bhati on October 21. Bhati has denied the […]
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Bihar govt employees get Diwali gift with 5% hike in DA
The Bihar government employees will have a Diwali gift this time in terms of enhanced dearness allowance ( DA) in their salary this month. The government has already made preparations for implementing the enhanced dearness allowance and the proposal will be approved by the Cabinet in next few days. The […]
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Mumbai cops book six people for stealing water worth Rs 73 crore over 11 years
In probably a first for Maharashtra, police have booked six people for theft of groundwater over a period of 11 years from two illegal wells at Kalbadevi in south Mumbai, officials said on Wednesday. Mumbai’s Azad Maidan police registered an FIR against 6 persons for theft of groundwater valued around […]
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Post-monsoon showers likely in Mumbai from over the weekend: IMD
Even as the south-west monsoon has withdrawn from Mumbai and other parts of north Konkan, post-monsoon rain or thundershowers have been predicted for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar from Friday, continuing over the weekend. Rain may even continue on polling day (Monday) in different parts of the state, including Mumbai. Rain […]
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Satya Nadella took home $42.9 million last fiscal, gets 66% raise
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned $42.9 million in total compensation for the fiscal year 2019 — 66 per cent raise from the prior fiscal year, the company has announced. Nadella received a $1 million base salary jump and an increase in stocks. “Nadella’s strategic leadership, including his efforts to strengthen […]
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Nair Society extends support to Congress in Kerala by-polls
The decision of the Nair Service Society (NSS), a socio-cultural body of upper caste Nairs in Kerala, to support candidates of the Congress-led United Democratic Front in the upcoming by-elections has rattled the CPI(M) and the BJP. Five assembly seats in Kerala are going to polls on October 21. The […]
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Winter session of parliament likely from mid-November
The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) on Wednesday met at defence minister Rajnath Singh’s residence to discuss the possible schedule for Parliament’s winter session. There was no official word on the date for the session’s commencement. But officials aware of developments said that it is likely to begin in […]