Radio Cabs

Mahindra & Mahindra will acquire a 55 per cent stake in radio taxi firm Meru Cabs, the company has announced in an exchange filing. The Indian auto giant will be making a primary investment of Rs. 103.5 crore by a fresh issue of shares in the company, in tranches. The final purchase price will be arrived at after making customary closing adjustmen...

Permits such as Contract Carriage Buses Permits, stage carrier permits, goods carriers, maxi cab, radio taxis and all India tourist permit make up for all the requisite permits required for different categories of commercial vehicles by the state government.

In Facebook and Twitter posts addressed to Uber, Pune resident Ambika Sharma Anavkar details how a cab driver continuously texted her days after she booked a ride for her relatives. Her posts have since prompted the cab company to start an investigation and take action against the driver, barring him from using the app.

"We will fix fares for them as we have done in the case of radio, economy cabs and kali-pili taxis. All app-based taxi services will be regulated through this policy."

Uber and Ola aren't going to get rich from surge pricing; but that doesn't mean we should blindly trust the algorithm just because they do.

The allegation by the city government and an association representing radio cab operators was made before Justice Manmohan.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday dismissed charges of alleged abuse of dominant position by taxi aggregator Uber, as it rejected the allegations levelled by radio taxi operator Meru Cabs in this regard.

Radio taxi operator Meru Cabs on Tuesday launched a ride-sharing feature in the capital and NCR under which the customers will be provided with an option of sharing their cab with another co-passenger who intends to travel in the same direction.

Clearing the ambiguity over laws governing app-based cabs such as Uber and Ola, the government today said such cabs should be treated like any other taxi service and it will soon issue guidelines on the same to the states.

The Delhi High Court has been told that its order upholding a ban on diesel cabs providing point-to-point service in the city was being implemented only against Ola while other app-based taxi services were violating it with impunity.

Taxi aggregator Ola today said that it has introduced number masking on its platform which will enable mobile numbers of customers to remain undisclosed to drivers.

A woman was kidnapped in a Meru cab by three people, one of whom was known to her, and then driven to a shop where she was gang-raped, police said on Saturday.

A woman allegedly had to jump out of a radiocab after it caught fire in Delhi late Tuesday. "My family would have ended last night," says her husband Kapil Kaul in a Facebook post addressed to taxi service EasyCabs. The cab company, however, denies that the car caught fire, though admitting that there was smoke.

The Delhi High Court today dismissed app-based cab service provider Ola's plea against a single judge's order asking the Delhi government to "strictly enforce" the ban imposed by it on January 1.

Some 10,000 online courses will be provided to drivers under the plan, a joint initiative between Rio 2016, Radio Globo and the English First group.

Mahindra & Mahindra will acquire a 55 per cent stake in radio taxi firm Meru Cabs, the company has announced in an exchange filing. The Indian auto giant will be making a primary investment of Rs. 103.5 crore by a fresh issue of shares in the company, in tranches. The final purchase price will be arrived at after making customary closing adjustmen...

Permits such as Contract Carriage Buses Permits, stage carrier permits, goods carriers, maxi cab, radio taxis and all India tourist permit make up for all the requisite permits required for different categories of commercial vehicles by the state government.

In Facebook and Twitter posts addressed to Uber, Pune resident Ambika Sharma Anavkar details how a cab driver continuously texted her days after she booked a ride for her relatives. Her posts have since prompted the cab company to start an investigation and take action against the driver, barring him from using the app.

"We will fix fares for them as we have done in the case of radio, economy cabs and kali-pili taxis. All app-based taxi services will be regulated through this policy."

Uber and Ola aren't going to get rich from surge pricing; but that doesn't mean we should blindly trust the algorithm just because they do.

The allegation by the city government and an association representing radio cab operators was made before Justice Manmohan.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday dismissed charges of alleged abuse of dominant position by taxi aggregator Uber, as it rejected the allegations levelled by radio taxi operator Meru Cabs in this regard.

Radio taxi operator Meru Cabs on Tuesday launched a ride-sharing feature in the capital and NCR under which the customers will be provided with an option of sharing their cab with another co-passenger who intends to travel in the same direction.

Clearing the ambiguity over laws governing app-based cabs such as Uber and Ola, the government today said such cabs should be treated like any other taxi service and it will soon issue guidelines on the same to the states.

The Delhi High Court has been told that its order upholding a ban on diesel cabs providing point-to-point service in the city was being implemented only against Ola while other app-based taxi services were violating it with impunity.

Taxi aggregator Ola today said that it has introduced number masking on its platform which will enable mobile numbers of customers to remain undisclosed to drivers.

A woman was kidnapped in a Meru cab by three people, one of whom was known to her, and then driven to a shop where she was gang-raped, police said on Saturday.

A woman allegedly had to jump out of a radiocab after it caught fire in Delhi late Tuesday. "My family would have ended last night," says her husband Kapil Kaul in a Facebook post addressed to taxi service EasyCabs. The cab company, however, denies that the car caught fire, though admitting that there was smoke.

The Delhi High Court today dismissed app-based cab service provider Ola's plea against a single judge's order asking the Delhi government to "strictly enforce" the ban imposed by it on January 1.

Some 10,000 online courses will be provided to drivers under the plan, a joint initiative between Rio 2016, Radio Globo and the English First group.