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Those paying $19.99 per month for its Premium plan will have to shell out $22.99.Netflix’s $6.99 ad-supported plan and $15.49 Standard tier will not change at the moment.“As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,” Netflix wrote in its letter to shareholders late on Wednesday as it declared its Q3 quarterly results.“Our starting price is extremely competitive with other streamers and at $6.99 per month in the US, for example, it’s much less than the average price of a single movie ticket,” said the company.The company was yet to reveal if…

He has landed in the police net after he allegedly kidnapped a minor girl.Police said Akash Gupta, 21, was traced and arrested after the father of a 16-year-old girl lodged a kidnapping case.A team tracked the social media account of the girl and later based on electronic footprints, rescued her and nabbed the accused.The accused had met the girl on Instagram by posing as techie and was randomly messaging her. The girl got impressed by his ‘credentials’ and made friends with him.But soon after the accused began harassing the girl. He first demanded to meet her and when the girl…

Official data reveals that during the Asian Para Games, 19 competition venues will accommodate 22 sports, with 17 of these venues being shared with the Asian Games.All venues boast permanent barrier-free facilities. During the transition period, work entailed constructing and installing additional facilities in areas such as passageways, stands, award ceremonies, press conference rooms, and athletes’ lounges, among others, Xinhua reports.At the Xiaoshan Sports Center Gymnasium, staff have swapped the weightlifting platform used during the Asian Games with new equipment for powerlifting.”We have been preparing for these Games for three years, including the platform, ramp, and podium for the award…

Lavrov arrived at in Pyongyang on Wednesday at the invitation of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry “amid the enthusiasm of friendship growing higher than ever”, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a report.The visit is a follow-up to the rare September 13 summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the two countries move to strengthen military ties amid speculation over their suspected arms deal, reports Yonhap News Agency.Speaking at a reception on Wednesday evening, Lavrov said his visit would serve as a “significant occasion of bringing substantial results” for the implementation…

The complaint has been filed by AIMIM spokesperson Mohd Farhan through his lawyer Amjad Ali.Interestingly, an FIR was also lodged against Farhan himself for making objectionable comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi three months ago.Farhan has received a stay on his arrest. Mohd Farhan said in the complaint that he gathered through English and Hindi newspapers that Rahul gifted his mother and party chief Sonia Gandhi a puppy on October 4, the World Animal Day.Farhan claimed that the puppy was named ‘Noori’ by Rahul and said that since the name is connected to the Prophet Muhammad, it is considered pure…

The tech giant revealed that the recently released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25977 now supports hearing aids equipped with Bluetooth LE Audio technology.As a result, users can pair hearing aids with Windows 11 PCs directly.”Customers who use these new hearing aids are now able to directly pair, stream audio, and take calls on their Windows PCs with LE Audio support,” Microsoft said in a blogpost on Wednesday.The feature is presently available on select Windows devices that support Bluetooth LE Audio, but Microsoft mentioned that more PCs will support it in the future.The tech giant also claimed that it will…

Paris. Oct 19 (IANS) Eight airports in France were forced to evacuate over security reasons, according to media reports.The airports that were affected on Wednesday were the one in Beauvais near Paris, Strasbourg, Nantes, Biarritz, Toulouse, Lille, Lyon-Bron and Nice, reports CNN citing local media.The Beauvais airport said it was evacuated “following an anonymous threat received by several French hubs”. It later announced that it was in the process of reopening.According to the French BFMTV, the Strasbourg and Nantes were evacuated due to a bomb threat.Meanwhile, the airports in Biarritz, Toulouse, Lille iand Lyon-Bron were evacuated due to a bomb…

Scientists from Klick Labs in the US used six to 10 seconds of people’s voice, along with basic health data, including age, sex, height, and weight, to create an AI model that can distinguish whether that individual has Type 2 diabetes.The model, detailed inthe journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, has 89 per cent accuracy for women and 86 per cent for men.For the study, researchers asked 267 people (diagnosed as either non- or Type 2 diabetic) to record a phrase into their smartphone six times daily for two weeks. From more than 18,000 recordings, scientists analysed 14 acoustic features…

The party, for the first time, organised ‘kanya pujan’ at its headquarters in Lucknow on Wednesday, much to the chagrin of party veterans.The ceremony was led by party state president Ajay Rai and Congress Sewa Dal chief Pramod Pandey.‘Kanya pujan’ is essentially a household practice during Navratri and the ritual is performed particularly by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as the head of Gorakshpeeth.A veteran party leader and former minister termed the incident as ‘suicidal’ for the Congress.“The Congress, for some reason, has stopped retaining its earlier secular posture. Either our leaders are going to one extreme in minority appeasement or…

ADGC Parvinder Singh said: “Jamil and his son Sarfaraz, accused in a murder case in 2010, were brought to the court for a hearing on June 1, 2011. As their vehicle was being parked near the court lock-up, Shahnawaz attacked them with a sharp object. “Shahnawaz is in Saharanpur’s jail serving life imprisonment in a murder case. Now, the court again rewarded him with a life term.” The hearing of this case was held in the ADSJ Shakti Singh’s court. “It is the first time in Muzaffarnagar’s history that someone was served two life terms under 307 (Attempt to murder)…