It is the end of the road for diesel taxis including those run by aggregators like Ola and Uber in Delhi and National Capital Region.
Two Delhi-based women were allegedly gang raped and assaulted by five men, who posed as officers of the anti-narcotic cell of police, at a flat in Anjuna beach village in North Goa, police said on Wednesday.
Radio taxi service provider Meru Cabs is planning to put in place the next level of driver verification, one liked to biometric identification tool Aadhaar.
Two alert citizens helped the Mumbai police arrest an assistant sub-inspector of police for the murder of a 40-year-old woman.
The party also promised reservation to minorities on basis of their population after the caste census.
A 32-year bargirl was allegedly gang raped while she was returning home from work at Antop Hill in north-east Mumbai on Wednesday.
The Sikh community, which was already concerned over the spate of hate attacks on individual Sikhs like taxi drivers, gas station attendants etc since 9/11, will be even more concerned over this attack on a congregation of Sikhs in a gurudwara, says B Raman
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.
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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.
A Seattle man has been sentenced to over three years in prison and ordered to pay damages for brutally assaulting a Sikh taxi driver last year in a racially-motivated hate crime during which he used "the most disgusting and ugly" racist language against the victim.
Lodha also accused the passenger, poet-activist Bappadittya Sarkar, of hatching an "ant-national conspiracy" against the CAA.
US-based ride hailing firm accuses rival of making false bookings on its platform, drags it to Delhi High Court.
An Athens taxi driver has enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame for honestly returning a mislaid Olympic medal -- but he admitted he did try it on for size first.
Presenting an excerpt from Dev Anand's autobiography, Romancing With Life.
Making a breakthrough in the battered baby Falak case, the Delhi police on Saturday arrested the prime suspect, who allegedly handed over the child to his 14-year-old girlfriend. Taxi driver Raj Kumar was arrested early on Saturday morning after weeks of manhunt. The police have been on the lookout for Kumar since January 18, when the minor girl got the baby admitted to AIIMS. The girl, who is allegedly involved in a prostitution racket, was also arrested along with Kumar.
The police in a statement in Port Blair said that Rajesh Vyas, owner of a gift shop, and Guddu, a taxi driver, were arrested after it was found that the duo allegedly help tourists visit the protected land for Jarawas and arrange video recording of these people.
Presenting an excerpt from Dev Anand's autobiography, Romancing With Life.
Tension gripped the north Kashmir Baltel base camp of the annual Amarnath yatra following clashes between security forces and locals on Thursday evening.
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An Indian taxi driver, who was accused of raping a woman in the back seat of his car in Australia, has been granted bail.
Vision is to create 50,000 jobs for women in India by 2020.
The competition between app-based taxi services has led to a drop in prices and more choices for customers.
Bengaluru outpaced Mumbai, Delhi, and Pune in 2023 to become India's leading city for electric car registrations. The city's tech-savvy workforce, increased acceptability, zero road tax, subsidised electricity for EV charging, and a wide charging station network contributed to this surge. Electric car registrations in Karnataka's capital surged more than threefold in 2023 to 8,690 units, overtaking the growth witnessed in the other three cities, according to data from Jato Dynamics
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.
On the implementation of the old pension scheme, Baghel said Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have written to the Central government to return the people's money with the National Pension System to implement the old pension scheme, but they refused.
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"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.
'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.'
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.
This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clichés mentioned here, you might just arrive at the portals of genuine movie-making energy, says Sreehari Nair.
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.
Presenting an excerpt from Dev Anand's autobiography, Romancing With Life.
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.
Five persons, including four teenagers, were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl for over a month.
The BEST services resumed after the shutdown ended around 4 pm.
