There is anti-incumbency in urban areas. Rural Punjab, the Akali base, will hold the key.
A senior journalist was assaulted and robbed at knife-point near the domestic airport in Mumbai on Sunday night while he was proceeding to the international airport to take a flight to Zimbabwe.
The National Digital Literacy Mission is helping educated women turn around their lives.
Some cars that are emblematic of India's automobile industry will no longer come off the assembly lines after this year.
Benaulim is one of those rare Goan villages with more starfish than holidaymakers.
The 25-year-old woman executive, allegedly raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, on Sunday said she is suffering mentally every day and lashed out at the web-based United States taxi firm for "insult to her injury", saying it has only made cosmetic changes to its policies to operate in India.
Director Danis Tanovic, producer Anurag Kashyap and actor Emraan Hashmi have created an inspiring work of international collaboration with Tigers. Arthur J Pais reports from Toronto.
The company recently expanded its services to 7 Indian cities.
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A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
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'I am listing here what life in the city with a dependent (but grown up) family is really like,' says Kishore Singh.
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Growing the number of electric vehicles on Ola's platform is part of the terms SoftBank has put forth for the funding
Safe or not, the global taxi giant can now track you even after you have been dropped off.
Car makers see a dip in demand from their biggest buyers, Ola and Uber. Demand from aggregators weakened for a number of reasons after a strong growth last year.
New age technology will reshape India's future.
It's high time we now turn the popular question on its head -- when there is no growth in jobs for several years, how can the real GDP grow at 7 per cent per annum, says Mahesh Vyas.
The Asia-Pacific head of United States-based cab service Uber was questioned by the police for the second consecutive day on Wednesday in connection with the rape of a 27-year-old finance executive by the company's driver, during which he was asked about details of their safety features, details of drivers among others.
Despite its many problems, A Death in the Gunj is an important work says Sreehari Nair.
With a new campaign that talks about togetherness, Uber challenges Ola's homegrown narrative.
A keen understanding of the way our brain functions is essential to building sustainable routines and habits that set us up for success, says Jay Kumar Hariharan.
'The Left is dying, but its economic ideology rules, unchallenged.' 'Modi is its newest standard-bearer.' 'Even in today's bitterly polarised politics, if there is one thing on which not just the BJP and Congress, but all other parties agree, it is that socialist economics is the only way to survive,' says Shekhar Gupta.
The company said it would appoint a US law firm to conduct a full investigation
The woman had filed the lawsuit against Uber in January this year alleging that Uber does not adequately screen its drivers and its "negligence and fraud" lead to her being sexually assaulted and humiliated.
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar, mingles with the unceasing flow of people outside Rajaji Hall in Cjhennai, that come for one last look at J Jayalalithaa.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com attended the Congress president's rally in Mumbai on Friday, and explains why people who came with high hopes left disappointed.
The charming town of Pelling can strike a balance between commerce and conservation
Every student of Classes 9 and 10 will receive Rs 2,200 and that of Classes 11 and 12 Rs 7,500 as scholarships, said the manifesto, which was released by Prasad in Ranchi, in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Union Tribal Minister Arjun Munda and BJP's state unit president Laxman Gilua.
Predatory pricing petitions against Ola, Uber were filed from across cities.
The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Delhi high court order allowing the accused to recall and re-examine 13 prosecution witnesses, including the victim, in the Uber cab rape case.
'The 5 to 10 minutes drive on a deserted stretch was enough to give me goosebumps; I resolved not to commit myself to any such engagements which would require me to travel alone at night in cabs.'
Despite the language barrier, Beijing is a city where getting lost is not necessarily a bad idea
The police eventually had to break the window of the car to get the woman out.
The new tranche of funding raises Ola's valuation to $5.74 billion from $4.45 billion in October 2017
'Once you book a cab a woman needs to get into high alert mode till the time she reaches her destination.'
Ahluwalia is not a great fan of the Uber model.
Ten trade unions with a combined membership of 15 crore workers in public and private sector, including banks and insurance companies, are on a nationwide strike to protest against changes in the labour laws.
Once a beggar, Renuka Aradhya's company has a turnover of Rs 30 crore and employs 150 people.
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