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TopicTaxi Driver

Topic: Taxi Driver

Amit Shah launches Bharat Taxi, the govt-backed alternative to Ola, Uber. Drivers will be ‘owners’

The taxi cooperative will also soon have a ‘Sarathi Didi’ feature allowing women passengers to opt for rides with female drivers.

Aliases crumble, crime trail uncovered from UP & Odisha to Nepal. Unmasking the cabbie killing gang

A friendship forged in Bareilly was the beginning of a gang which would hire taxis only to kill drivers & sell vehicles in Nepal. First booked in 2001, mastermind was nabbed 5 July.

‘What about Goanness?’: Goa taxi drivers resist govt proposal to bring in app-based cabs

While local drivers have opposed Pramod Sawant govt's draft guidelines, tourists have often complained about being overcharged by them, taxis not being available at all times & so on.

16-year-old ‘gang-raped’ in car by neighbours, three men arrested

Police say the accused — aged 23, 25 and 35 — offered the girl a ‘joy ride’ and took her from Vasant Vihar to Mahipalpur and then to an isolated location in Gurgaon.

Taxi Driver — one of India’s first ‘cabbie films’, which sealed Dev Anand’s romantic hero image

On Dev Anand's 98th birth anniversary, ThePrint revisits a film close to his heart — a complete Anand family production, whose heroine he married.

On Camera

Tamil Nadu’s elections are fought on delivery—ideology appears only when needed

Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.