New Delhi: The transportation services in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region were affected on Thursday following a two-day strike launched by the unions of auto and taxi drivers. Kishan Verma, president of the Delhi Auto Taxi Transport Congress Union, said that cab aggregators such as Ola, Uber, and Rapido are affecting their livelihoods and eating up their …
The transport department is relaunching pink autos -- autos driven exclusively by women -- in Noida, said a department official on Wednesday, adding that 380 such autos will hit the Noida roads within the next two months. The transport department has already issued approval letters to 154 applicants with the requirement that they purchase their autos and get them registered …
The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday increased the fares of auto-rickshaws, taxis and buses across the state. According to the revised order, issued by state transport authority chairman L Venkateshwarlu, diesel-run auto-rickshaws will charge ₹10.44 per km, CNG-autos ₹10.24 per km and petrol autos will charge ₹9.97 per km. However, commuters said the reality is that in cities such as …
In a big relief to residents of the NCR districts of Haryana, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the National Green Tribunal’s ban on plying of diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years, will be enforced on autos plying in Gurugram. Govt in touch with stranded students In response to a …
New Delhi: Most autorickshaw drivers will not be advertising for Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party in the coming Lok Sabha elections as they are upset with his government's “failure” to implement promises made to them last month. “Unlike in Delhi Assembly election, we would not advertise for AAP in the coming polls as Kejriwal government failed to implement any announcements …
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Planners talk about high-speed train networks to ferry people from Meerut to Delhi under an hour but they have not yet ensured a simple three-wheeler ride across the NCR without passengers having to change autos and walk across every state border. Cost escalation apart, the number of heavy vehicles that …