Ola said it will not charge commission from drivers for the first two months after the launch, allowing them to retain 100 per cent of their earnings from the platform.
The minister said drivers are given specific instructions on where to slow down the train.
Nine people were killed in the attack on the vehicle that was carrying pilgrims from the Shiv Khori temple to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra. The 53-seater bus veered off the road due to indiscriminate firing by the terrorists and fell into the gorge near Teryath village in the Poni.
Container Corporation of India (Concor) has been the worst performer among major logistics & port stocks registering returns of about 4 per cent over the past three months as compared to 10-12 per cent for peers Gateway Distriparks and Adani Ports and SEZ. Uncertain outlook on the export-import (EXIM) trade front, market share loss, lack of progress on divestment, and weak June quarter results weighed on the stock. Volume and margin movement will be key triggers for the stock going ahead. As was the case in the previous quarter, margin performance was muted even in the June quarter. Operating profit in the quarter was down 17 per cent at Rs 391 crore missing estimates by over 15 per cent. Operating profit margins at 20.4 per cent, too, were down sharply by 350 basis points over the year-ago quarter.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget proposals lay out a comprehensive road map for transforming India into a developed nation, focusing on key priorities that aim to generate ample opportunities for all citizens in "Viksit Bharat". It sets the stage for sustained economic growth, social development, and technological advancement.
The non-availability of halal meat, a must-have in their menu, in their Bridgetown hotel forced them to temporarily wear a chef's apron.
'Fan armies are not just followers; they are a force of nature.'
These trains would be able to accommodate as many as 240 commuters.
The Railways said it had intentionally changed the route.
'Imagine what will happen when a train running at 128 kmph moves onto a track that is meant to have only a speed less than 30 kmph!' 'Naturally, it will derail, and the coaches will go for a tailspin.'
'We don't know how and why this happened as the route interlock signal works fine millions of times every day across India.'
'Our train was moving in all the wrong directions and went to Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha'
The prime ingredient in Nannari Sherbat is sarsaparilla syrup, made from a tropical root or vine,
With the rains pouring down on us, August offers yet another reason to stay home!
In the North Western Railway (NWR) zone, rail traffic was affected in some sections in Rajasthan and Haryana with 18 trains cancelled, 10 partially cancelled and one diverted due to the protest.
There's a hint of new competition riding into a sector that has attracted attention for being in a duopoly-like situation. Rapido, a commute app known for its budget-friendly bike-taxi services, on Tuesday announced its entry into the cab market, which is currently dominated by marquee brands Uber and Ola. Rapido's cab foray will be enabled by a software as a service (SaaS)-based platform.
While we complain about comfort in coaches, rarely do we think about the comfort of engine drivers.
Danica Patrick, who inspired young women to break into the male-dominated sport of motor racing, is now a fitness expert.
Thirteen wagons of one of the trains and an engine jumped off the tracks following the collision.
Norris finished ninth in the drivers' standings last season.
Kumar said that even the driver had received multiple fractures as well as a head injury. His condition is very critical, he added.
Preliminary investigation into the train accident at Sitheri has found that it took place due to over-speeding of the Electric Multiple Unit train, which rammed into a stationary train, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi said on Wednesday.
Before the novel coronavirus brought its pandemic to New Delhi, Mohammad Aamir Khan was one of tens of thousands of people making a living in the Indian capital as a taxi driver. But that work dried up during the nearly three-month lockdown to prevent the spread of the virus. With cases rising in India even before the government lifted the lockdown, a friend suggested perhaps the only business now booming in the country -- driving a private ambulance.
'Nobody accepted me when I was a boy, but now people ask me to bless them.'
A low-down on the eight runners -- four men and four women -- who finished second in their qualifying heats to make the Olympic cut.
'Here are 25 stories special to me for one reason too many,' says Sukanya Verma who scored 25 years writing about the movies last week.
The pilot of the MMTS train was trapped in his cabin, which was badly mangled, and efforts were on to rescue him, they said.
When I asked Krishna Gopal Sengupta, who had travelled through Bangladesh from Chittagong to Petrapole if the interim government had made any impact at ground level, he said, "it's been only a couple of days. They will need some time." Shyam G Menon reports from Petrapole, India's entry point with Bangladesh.
'Instead of ACs, the government should do something to increase our salary.'
Suspected tribal militants belonging to the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic
Swift Dzire has clocked 2.5 million in sales, and you might, in a non-too-distant future, see headlines that the DZire has done 3 million as well, observes Suveen Sinha.
Meet India's top athletes at Olympics 2024.
The driver of the Uttarbanga Express was alerted by the station master that a train was already there on the tracks but he violated the red signal, Rehmat Ali, the signal in-charge of the Sainthia station where the deadly collision took place said on Tuesday.
Unidentified gunmen abducted two railway drivers from a hilly area near Bairabi Railway station in remote Kolasib district in Mizoram late on Thursday. The abduction sparked mass protests by the railway staff in south Assam on Friday, paralysing railway services in Silchar-Badarpur section.
No passenger injured in the mishap but there were mild injuries to the driver, police said.
Fog and negligence of the driver of the rear train are being reported as to being causes of the mishap.
Severe skilled, unskilled shortage threatens to pull emergency brakes on India's industrial engine.
The study paper -- 'Skills Gaps in the Indian Logistics Sector' -- estimates that currently India has only some 3 million truck drivers for medium and heavy commercial vehicles. Even if 50 per cent of all drivers in India are to be trained, almost 125 institutes of the size and scale of the existing one in Namakkal will be required in the next 7-8 years, says the paper.
Police suspect that one of the persons who visited the blast site at the Prithviraj Road two hours prior to the incident had come from Jamia Nagar in southeast Delhi.
'To avoid accountability and cover the mismanagement of the head of the department, they create this kind of sabotage theory.' 'If it's a sabotage theory, then the higher-level officials can go scot-free.'
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