A 31-year-old woman from Kuwait who had arrived in India for treatment and went missing from Kolkata last month has been spotted in neighbouring Bangladesh this week, a police officer said in Kolkata on Thursday.
The chief executive officer of an artificial intelligence start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son at a service apartment in Goa and stuffed his body in a bag before taking it to neighbouring Karnataka in a taxi, the police said on Tuesday.
Ride-hailing firms claim penetration is still low and there is a huge upside to grow the market and make owning a car pass.
It's good news for women in Mumbai. A new, all-woman taxi service was launched on Sunday, to cater primarily to women travellers.
The strike is expected to be observed in key cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune among other cities.
Pardeep Singh, who is studying hospitality in the country, was beaten at the Sandy Bay McDonald's drive-through in Australia's island state of Tasmania on Saturday night.
Both Uber and Rapido have an SOS button installed in the app which are monitored by their teams
The diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and Afghanistan deepened on Sunday after Kabul announced that it will withdraw its ambassador and other senior staff from Islamabad after the abduction and torture of the daughter of its envoy to Pakistan.
He was admitted with symptoms of pneumonia but later tested positive for coronavirus, a hospital statement said. He was also suffering from heart disease and high blood pressure and had undergone a bypass surgery earlier, the statement said.
Two IIT-B grads cracked the cab aggregator code, tasted success & failure.
In a major embarrassment for India, Antim Panghal, her sister and coaches face deportation from Paris after the young wrestler handed over her official accreditation to her younger sibling to collect her personal belongings from the Games Village and was caught by security.
In yet another attack on an Indian in Melbourne, a taxi driver from the community was injured when a drunk Australian star footballer allegedly assaulted him after an altercation. Essendon football player Michael Hurley was arrested for kicking and punching an Indian cabbie outside a fast-food outlet on Hoddle Street. The police arrested Hurley at the scene. The soccer player was later taken to Fitzroy police station and questioned about the incident.
A flash 'taxi strike', called by a handful of miscreants who damaged taxis across Mumbai, added to the Monday blues of the harried commuters in the metropolis.Nearly 80 taxis were reportedly damaged, allegedly by fellow cab drivers who were protesting against Home Minister R R Patil's 'decision' to increase the fine for not wearing an uniform from Rs 100 to Rs 300. It was later revealed that Patil had not taken any such decision.
The argument that existing rules do not apply to them will no longer hold ground.
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The rape of a 27-year-old woman executive allegedly by a cab driver has shaken those who prefer cab-booking services like Uber, which charge premium rates on the promise of better services.
Uber said it is conducting a full audit of its verification, rider feedback and support processes apart from assessing its driver screening processes, Ola is getting GPS installed in all its partner taxis.
Women need to stop feeling victimised and helpless all the time, says founder of India's first all-women taxi service, Revathi Roy. For those who are willing to risk, and move ahead of the challenges, the sky is the limit, she beckons.
The whole point about this is not who eventually wins or loses but how, in just a few years, technology has so changed our lives, says Subir Roy.
Swaroop Kanchi, the Bangalore-based film-maker tries his hand at Hindi film, Yeh Dil Ramta Jogi.
Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has criticised the Maharashtra government's recent decision to grant taxi permits to only those drivers who are well versed in Marathi and have resided in the state for at least 15 years. Most taxi drivers in Mumbai are migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.Lalu alleged that the ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine was 'going the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's way".
100 years of Dev Anand and 10 scenes etched in our memory!
A homicide inquiry has been launched into the death of an Indian-origin taxi driver in Auckland suburbs early on Sunday.The victim has been identified as Hiren Mohini, a 39-year-old resident of Mount Roskill. Mohini was driving an Auckland co-op taxi, which veered off the road and hit a tree at approximately 1.30 a.m. Local residents, who were woken by the crash, rushed to help Mohini and remove him from the vehicle. Emergency services were also called but he died.
Kerala's she-taxi to reach other cities as well.
Taxi and autorickshaw drivers under Jai Bhagwan Taxi Rickshaw Sanghatana have announced they would go on indefinite strike from August 29 in Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai.
Students and principals at the primary and senior schools Oscar winner Cillian Murphy attended in Cork, Ireland, tells Rediff.com what the triumph means to them.
Several BJP voters say the Ram temple sentiment may give the ruling party a fillip but are also aware of the herculean task at hand and concede that it is a daunting electoral contest for Dinesh Singh, who lost to Sonia Gandhi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
'I want to tell everybody there is nothing in the world that you can't do.' 'If you apply your mind, you can do anything and everything.'
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were 'pretty nervous' as they were chased by paparazzi in New York, according to an Indian-American cab driver who drove the couple for about 10 minutes after picking them up at a police station in Manhattan.
Investments are at risk if operators are unable to resolve concerns of authorities and customers after the rape accusation.
Patel General Stores' business model and that of 11 million other stores like them in India are going to be even more reliant on fleet-footed young men dropping out of school in rural areas.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Martin Scorsese, 'the reigning king of cinema', gets an honorary Golden Bear at the 74th Berlinale.
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.
The inputs, which even specified the names of the suspects, say the duo may masquerade as taxi drivers to execute their terror plans, sources said.
Over the last six months, Mumbaites have forgotten 32,970 mobile phones, 349 laptops and 349 USB (Universal Serial Bus) sticks/thumb drives at the back of licensed taxi cabs - and these are just the ones that have been reported as lost.
Despite Uber facing a ban across many states, including Karnataka and Maharashtra, for Lingaraju, a driver employed by the company in Bengaluru, it is business as usual.
The sessions court in Mumbai on Tuesday reserved the order on the bail application filed by corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who was arrested for allegedly crashing her car into a taxi and killing two persons, until Wednesday.
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.
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