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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
TopicOla cabs

Topic: Ola cabs

Ola & Uber to soon have a new competitor as 8 cooperatives take the wheel. All about Bharat Taxi

Bharat Taxi is a cooperative initiative under newly formed Multi-State Sahakari Taxi Cooperative Ltd, which is backed by 8 cooperatives.

Ola CEO ditches Microsoft’s Azure over ‘woke pronouns’, to shift to Ola’s Krutrim for cloud services

The decision came after Bhavish Aggarwal took exception to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn's AI chatbot referring to him as 'they'. He also encouraged other developers to move away from Azure.

Caste disparity, fear of violence & no family time — survey puts numbers to gig workers’ troubles

'Prisoners on Wheels?' report surveyed over 10,000 cab drivers & delivery persons on apps across 8 cities. Mental and physical health issues, dissatisfaction with fares also among findings.

Gig dream is fading for Uber, Ola drivers. They are forming picket lines & support groups

The gig sector is booming, but policy inaction, declining incentives from app-based companies, and skyrocketing fuel prices have trapped gig workers in a spiral of diminishing returns.

Drivers cancelling rides top issue for 79% of taxi app users, survey finds

Drivers cancelling rides due to unfavourable destination or non-cash payment is cab app users’ biggest headache, according to a nationwide survey by community platform LocalCircles.

Ola picks Citigroup, Kotak among other banks to manage its IPO that could raise $1 billion

Ola, Bengaluru-based ride hailing startup, could seek a valuation of more than $8 billion in the IPO and lodge a filing as soon as October.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bend Taliban with bombs. It must stop the Yemen-isation of Durand Line

This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.

Govt-backed Bharat Taxi, future rival of Ola & Uber, to kick off test drive in Delhi in November

The initiative has onboarded nearly 650 drivers, up from 200 drivers in August. Target is to onboard more than 5,000 drivers before the year ends.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.