An Indian taxi driver, who was accused of raping a woman in the back seat of his car in Australia, has been granted bail.
Uber, the US-based online taxi-hailing firm, would not take any commission from its drivers in New Delhi until uncertainty over how it could operate in the country's capital city was cleared up, it said on Tuesday.
"At about 9.15 pm, a police party at Mirgund in Pattan signalled a cab to stop but two militants inside the vehicle started firing, which was retaliated," a police official said.
Keen to extend a warm welcome to millions of tourists during the 2012 Olympics in London, Britain's national tourism agency has put together a list of cultural 'dos' and 'don'ts', including the advise to avoid physical contact with visitors from India.
Cab aggregators caught between showing profitability to investors, increasing their network and dabbling in areas such as food ordering have seen a major blow to their primary business.
A taxi driver may hold vital information about Gurdeep Hayer, a 20-year-old Indian-origin man who has been missing since January 2, according to the Greater Manchester Police. Concern is growing for Gurdeep, who has gone missing from a place in Manchester, which is less than 16 km from where Anuj Bidve was killed on December 26. Based in West Bromwich, Gurdeep was last seen in Manchester in the early hours of January 2. He travelled to Manchester on December 31.
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'You can see the essential contours of his new Pakistan strategy. Rather than keep engaging with or humouring them, he'd rather work on taking their four biggest supporters -- the US, China, the UAE and later Saudi Arabia -- away from them.' 'In his calculation,' says Shekhar Gupta, 'with the total support of all four of these, Pakistan will be forced to moderate its policies.'
The Victoria police denied making any further arrest in connection with the killing of Indian toddler Gurshan Singh Channa.
Groups of youths, during the festivities on Monday, jumped upon the cars echoing racist comments to the terrified passengers within and were heard passing lewd comments on girls, according to The Daily telegraph newspaper.In Sydney, hundreds of youths draped in 'Aussie pride' livery wore objectionable slogans as they paraded down the seafront threatening by-passers and smashing car windows and vandalising shops of non-white shopkeepers.
Two Indians, including a taxi driver, were attacked in separate incidents overnight in Brisbane, a day after Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that the assaults on Indians in the country were 'regrettable'. A 25-year-old youth was assaulted and robbed while using a phone booth near his home in Macgregor in south Brisbane on Thursday night, police officials were quoted as saying. The youth, whose identity was not disclosed, was punched in the head twice.
According to the Sun, footage from a camera at a Cape Town restaurant recorded a private meeting between Shrien and Tongo after Anni Dewani's death.
In a setback to US-based online cab service provider -- Uber, the Delhi government has rejected again the company's application for licence to run its taxis in the national capital.
Thousands of euphoric Ecuadoreans celebrated on Sunday in various cities around the South American nation after the country's historic victory against host nation Qatar in the opening game of the soccer World Cup.
Five persons, including four teenagers, were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl for over a month.
Maya Warrier, 9, satisfies a little of her wanderlust when she journeys across the world to Vietnam, some 10 hours by flight from her home in London.
Two men have entered guilty pleas to hate crime charges in the vicious attack on a Sikh taxi driver in Sacramento the United States late last year as the police and Federal Bureau of Investigation have launched a massive manhunt to nab the attackers of two other elderly members of the community.
City Police Commissioner A K Khan said Zialul Haq, a taxi driver by profession, was trained in Pakistan and was planning to carry out blasts in Hyderabad.
A Pakistani-origin taxi driver, with suspected links to Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami chief Ilyas Kashmiri, has been indicted on charges of "knowingly" attempting to aid the Al Qaeda.
A US court on Wednesday fixed April 7 as the date for the preliminary hearing in the case of a Pakistani-origin taxi driver who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago on charges of providing material support and funds to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror group.
Parents of an Indian toddler, who was accidentally knocked down by a compatriot, have expressed unhappiness over the "mild" jail term given by an Australian court to their son's killer, who will serve a minimum of three years in prison.
A Melbourne court today adjourned the hearing of the case of Gursewak Dhillon, accused in the death of toddler Gurshan Singh Channa, till June 29.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Victorian Premier John Brumby have urged the Indian community to remain calm and not link three-year-old Gurshan Singh's death to attacks on Indian students and taxi drivers in Melbourne.Gurshan's body was found dumped by the side of a road in a Melbourne suburb, six hours after he disappeared from a relative's home in Lalor on Thursday.
Corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who was arrested for mowing down two people in Mumbai allegedly under the influence of alcohol, has moved a suburban Kurla Magistrate court challenging the applicability of the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against her.
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A Melbourne court has sentenced an Australian to over six years in jail for attacking an Indian taxi driver with a knife -- an incident that led to hundreds of Indian cabbies blocking the city streets last year. Justice Elizabeth Curtain sentenced Parrish Chales to six-and-a-half years in jail, saying the stabbing was 'random, unprovoked and frenzied' and the fact that the 45-year-old attacker had a hunting knife hidden in his pants showed a degree of 'premeditation'.
'Great western directors have been making films in India for the last 40 years,' Hollywood script Paul Schrader says.
From wearing oversized glasses to the oratory style and issues--Raj Thackeray is trying to emulate whatever his uncle Balasaheb Thackery and the Shiv Sena stood for. A perturbed Uddhav Thackeray, his cousin and son of Balasaheb, already called him "a contractor working on commission for the ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combination because he fears that he might be put in a cage like a rat if NCP-Congress comes to power".
The Indian Team continued to snub the media for the fourth day on the trot after reaching South Africa for the ongoing Champions Trophy.
The move follows after a warning by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who on Monday assured strict action, including impounding of cabs, if the app-based taxis were found charging more than the prescribed rates.
Priyadarshini is a new government scheme that comprises women taxi drivers and guides thorough with foreign languages to drive and show them around.
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In the wake of recent attacks on Indian taxi drivers in Australia, officials from the two sides have agreed to establish a framework for continued dialogue on issues pertaining to the safety and security of the cabbies.
Sharma's mother Parvati and sister-in-law Rekha were interrogated by a team of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad and released from custody late Monday night, police said.
Raja Lahrasib Khan, a naturalised citizen of the US who worked as a taxi driver in Chicago is alleged to have discussed a plot to attack a stadium in the US and is to be produced in a Chicago court on Friday, officials said. The investigation in the case was not related to the case of Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives David Coleman Headly.
A top New York Police detective is facing suspension and reassignment after an incident with an Uber driver that was captured on video by an Indian-origin passenger.
The three-year-old Indian toddler, whose body was found near Melbourne days ago, may have been hurt in an accident before being put in a car boot and dumped by a part-time taxi driver, who has been arrested and charged over the death, a media report said on Monday.Parents of Gurshan Singh Channa have been told by the police that their son may have been hurt by an accident before being put in a car boot and dumped near Melbourne Airport.
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