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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicUber cabs

Topic: Uber 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.

Global media keeps eyes peeled for Air India crash prelim report, WSJ puts focus on pilots & fuel switches

Global media also looks at the latest chapter in India's 'language wars', what's making India world's biggest IPO market outside US, Jane Street saga & the Uber-Rapido rivalry in India.

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.

‘Our job is not just to pacify’— meet men & women handling Uber’s 24×7 safety helpline

Hundreds of Uber safety agents in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad field calls from riders and drivers across India, tackling complaints, disputes, and emergencies round the clock.

Western commode, TV, broom, dumbbells — things Indians leave behind in their Uber

In 2023 edition of Uber’s Lost and Found Index, company revealed Delhi was 'most forgetful city', followed by Mumbai, Hyderabad & Bengaluru.

Australia fines Uber $14 mn for misleading on inflated estimated fares & cancellation fees

The court fined the American ride-sharing app Wednesday for breaking consumer law, decieving customers with cancellation fee threats & overstating fare estimates from 2017 to 2021.

Uber blamed rape by Delhi driver on ‘flawed Indian system of background checks’, finds report

A trove of documents leaked to UK-based The Guardian reveals how the tech giant broke rules while trying to expand to the world.

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.