‘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...
23 Feb, 2026, 04.48 PM IST
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...
23 Feb, 2026, 03.01 PM IST
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...
14 Oct, 2025, 06.04 PM IST
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.
16 Mar, 2018, 11.01 PM IST
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...
06 Oct, 2016, 03.56 PM IST
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.
09 Jun, 2016, 11.32 AM IST
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.
19 Oct, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
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...
08 Jun, 2015, 09.18 PM IST
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 ...
28 Mar, 2015, 11.09 AM IST
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...
31 Dec, 2014, 03.18 PM IST
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...
13 Dec, 2014, 08.20 AM IST
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.
10 Dec, 2014, 07.06 AM IST
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...
09 Dec, 2014, 05.23 AM IST
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...
10 Nov, 2014, 08.11 AM IST
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.
08 Aug, 2014, 05.57 PM IST
- 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...
04 Apr, 2009, 01.02 AM IST
- 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.
26 Aug, 2006, 03.40 AM IST