The strike is expected to be observed in key cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune among other cities.
An Uber driver was arrested for allegedly misbehaving with a woman passenger in Mumbai, police said on Wednesday.
The cab owners began their protest a day after the Supreme Court ban on diesel taxis in New Delhi came into effect. The cab drivers blocked traffic on NH-8 at the Rajokri border between Delhi and Gurgaon.
Over 1,600 taxis now have these devices installed.
The strike has been called by the Maharashtra Navnirman Vahtuk Sena, the transport wing of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which claims that several drivers of these cabs are not able to cover costs due to the falling business.
The Association, which claims to represent around 125,000 app-based taxis in the the Delhi-NCR, demands that fares be increased from existing Rs 6 per km to around Rs 20 per km.
'Once you book a cab a woman needs to get into high alert mode till the time she reaches her destination.'
Customers in Coventry and Warwick will also enjoy competitive pricing -- with new users receiving 50 per cent off on all rides for the first two weeks, according to the company.
Travelling has become a hassle-free and safe experience in India thanks to radio cabs.
'Finding a job during the lockdown was not easy.'
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite 2024 films that he watched at film festivals held in Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and India.
Has Mumbai moved on? Have Mumbaikars buried the memories of the ghastly terror attacks by 10 Pakistani terrorists that killed 156 of their fellow citizens and injured several hundred others? Prasanna D Zore visits two of the 26/11 sites to find out.
Launching the fleet of 50 such new taxis in Kasba area, West Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra said the cabs would be beneficial for both drivers and passengers.
The court has fixed the case for Tuesday for hearing final arguments.
'Mrs shows a dark side to the son and the father.' 'I had to do things that I wouldn't dare to do in real life.'
The New Zealand government may introduce mandatory safety measures in taxis after an Indian origin cab driver was stabbed to death in Auckland over the weekend.
The driver had found an envelope containing the money in his taxi after dropping off a passenger. He took the money and handed it over to Al Muraqabat police station in Dubai.
Flagging down a black cab on London's streets may prove a little harder during this year's Olympics after taxi drivers had a request to raise fares by 22 percent turned down on Thursday.
One man follows Guru Nanak's visits to multi-faith sites across nine countries.
Robbed ornaments worth over Rs 50 lakh has also been recovered from the possession of the accused who was arrested from Madhya Pradesh, officials said.
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Delhi police has recovered the iPhone which was provided by Uber to the driver accused of raping the 27-year-old finance company executive on Friday night inside the cab which she had booked through the company's app.
Michael Enright, 21, was charged with second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime, second-degree assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon as a hate crime and aggravated harassment.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have 10 Indian billionaires.
Five people died in rain-related incidents in Delhi Friday as Monsoon arrived with a fury early in the morning, lashing the city with its highest rainfall in a single day of June in 88 years which brought it to a standstill with streets flooded, traffic in chaos and some commuters stranded on roads.
A Pakistani-American cab driver in Chicago, who gave money to Al Qaeda operative Illyas Kashmiri for terror attacks in India, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on charges of providing financial assistance to the terror outfit.
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Nozomi Okuhara's harrowing experience after her touchdown in India was 'unfortunate and won't happen in future'
A Pakistan-born Chicago cab driver, charged with sending money to Al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri, has pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist outfit. Raja Lahrasib Khan was arrested in March 2010 and charged with two counts of attempting to provide material support to terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who is believed to have been killed in a United States predator attack in June last year in Pakistan.
Five women who work night shifts share how they cope with their safety and security while travelling alone at night.
In many states, aggregators operate without a licence; in others, with the risk of the licence being revoked by any regional transport office on the slightest pretext.
Raja Lahrasib Khan, the 56-year-old Pakistani American cab driver accused of sending some few thousand dollars to Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri filed a motion for his release in a US court.
Toronto's cabbies give the thumbs down to the festival; no big ticket Indian stars, they say
With Uber & Ola fighting it out, the taxi aggregator space is set for massive growth.
A local court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to two persons in the rape and murder case of a 22-year-old BPO employee that rocked the city and send shock waves in the IT establishments.
The hearing in the case of Pakistani-Canadian Raja Lahrasib Khan, a 56-year-old cab driver arrested on charges of sending money to Al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri, has been fixed for December 12. The case was to be taken up originally on Wednesday at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, but the hearing has now been scheduled for December 12, said Khan's attorney Thomas Durkin.
In fresh incidents of violence against Indians in Australia, four community youths, including three cabbies, were attacked in two separate incidents in Brisbane, a media report said on Thursday.
Kerala's she-taxi to reach other cities as well.
Vision is to create 50,000 jobs for women in India by 2020.
