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Time for long-term investors to look at them again? 9 NBFC stocks with upside potential of up to 22%The reason NBFC stocks reacted quickly to the easing of the US-Iran war risk is not difficult to understand. For a lender, macro relief tra...
15 minutes, 1 big lesson: How a routine bike ride became a powerful reminder of courage, responsibility and refusing to give upAn ordinary Rapido bike ride turned into a profound life lesson for Ankit Pandey. He encountered a young woman, the sole breadwinner for he...
In volatile times: 5 stocks with score improvement and upside potential of up to 24%There are reasons to expect more volatility in the short term. The Street will adjust to the likely decline of both the top and bottom line...
‘You are owners’: Amit Shah explains Bharat Taxi model, pitches base rate and ‘Saarthi’ identityUnion Home Minister Amit Shah detailed Bharat Taxi's cooperative model. Drivers can become shareholders with a small investment. The platfo...
Bharat Taxi will not let drivers earn below base rate, Amit Shah tells town hallAddressing a town hall interaction with cab and auto drivers from Delhi-NCR and Gujarat, Shah said the cooperative ride-hailing platform wo...
Delhi government's new taxi app to offer no surge pricing, full fare to driversDelhi is launching its first cooperative ride-hailing service, empowering drivers with 100% earnings and commuters with surge-free, afforda...
Uber, Ola drivers threaten indefinite strike from SundayThe strike is expected to be observed in key cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune among other cities.
Faircent ties up with Baxi for easy loans for its taxi driversFaircent’s maiden venture into auto loans would enable Baxi drivers to fund their two wheelers by registering and seeking a loan through th...
Telecom entrepreneur C Sivasankaran drives into crowded taxi space with UTOOUTOO Cabs has been garnering driver entrepreneurs in Chennai, conducting meetings with cabs drivers for the past few weeks now.
Taxi-hailing app Uber to focus on winning Indian market by leveraging technology to cut costsAsia head Eric Alexander said Uber is open to acquihiring in India and has a dedicated tech team to deal with the Indian ecosystem.
Cab drivers protest over crackdown to implement complete ban on app-based taxi servicesDelhi Police has impounded nearly 600 cabs belonging to banned app-based taxi services after Delhi Government rejected their licence applic...
Lenders woo cabbies of tech-backed taxis like Ola, UberRecently, the country's largest lender State Bank of India tied up with Ola Cabs to finance driver-entrepreneurs recommended by the online ...
Uber to compensate drivers in Delhi 'indefinitely'; to prevent them fleeing to rivalsThe ban, following the alleged rape of a woman in a taxi hailed through Uber app, had raised concerns about the livelihood of the taxi owne...
How the ban hurts Uber drivers who earned at least Rs 45,000/monthCompanies like Uber, Ola and TaxiForSure, neither employ drivers nor own the fleet. Instead they offer a tech platform that links drivers w...
Delhi rape case: 5 reasons why banning taxi companies may not be a good ideaDrivers earn more, riders pay less... City commuting was never this convenient. Why the ban then?, ask users and investors.
Ban on Uber leaves 2,000 drivers at crossroadsSeveral drivers who worked for Uber said they would be stranded to payback the loans they had taken to buy cars such as the Swift Dzire and...
Uber ties up with M&M, Maruti, Tata Motors, Toyota, financiers to fund drivers in buying carsDrivers interested in partnering with Uber can purchase vehicles with a down payment of as low as Rs 60,000 and at subsidised interest rate...
How startups like Meru, Uber, Olacabs, TaxiForSure have transformed lives of taxi driversAcross major cities, a silent revolution is brewing among taxi drivers who are gaining from the advent of a new breed of startups.
- Cabbies get a lending hand to replace old cars
Faced with an order to replace nearly 15% of the city’s ageing taxi fleet, Mumbai’s taximen have found succour under the Credit Guarantee F...
- It's gonna be a tough ride for fleet taxis
The ‘fleet taxi service’ proposed by the state government has angered the ‘black-and-yellow’ cabbies on Mumbai’s streets.