Pune: It's been two decades since the government launched its battle against discrimination of HIV positive people with an iconic advertisement, crores of rupees have been spent to counter persecution of the HIV infected. But the campaign ironically has failed to eliminate prejudice even within the government departments. A 41-year-old bus driver from Pune, an HIV positive, was sacked by the State Transport Department last month. The sole breadwinner in...
06:21 AM, Jun 05, 2012
HYDERABAD: A day after oil companies announced the steepest ever hike in petrol price, auto-rickshaw drivers in the city seemed to have taken an oath to pass on the burden to the people, disregarding the mandatory meter chargers, and further fuelling public fury. At several places, people were seen arguing with the auto-drivers for overcharging them in the name of the petrol price hike. I travel the same distance to...
08:40 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday will be hearing the anticipatory bail plea of the alleged driver in the Gurgaon BMW hit-and-run case. A pregnant woman and her driver were killed in the May 5 accident. Meanwhile, Gurgaon police has issued a notice to the car owners son. Devender Singh Sehrawats 21-year-old son who they claim is unwilling to cooperate. On Saturday, Rajesh, employed as a driver by the...
06:40 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Gurgaon accident was the result of a speeding BMW ramming into a Tata Indigo. The impact was such that the Indigo flipped in the air leaving two of its occupants Kshama Chopra Shetye and Sanjay Gulati dead. One week on, the police claim they don't know who was at the BMW's wheel that was moving at breakneck speed. This despite having information on the exact identity of...
10:21 PM, May 12, 2012
'Action'- With entertainment is touted by its makers as India's first full on 3D comedy is coming with an ensemble cast starring Allari Naresh, Vaibhav, Raju Sundaram, Shyam, Sneha Ullal, Neelim Upadhyay and Kamna Jethmalani in the leads. Directed by Anil Sunkara, who has produced the movies like Bindaas and Aha Na Pellanta with AK Entertainment, the movie will be released in Telugu and Tamil. The first schedule was wrapped...
04:41 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: A DTC driver accused of driving rashly and mowing down a pedestrian, who was crossing a road, has been absolved of the charges by a Delhi court which held that drivers cannot always be blamed for accidents due to the "menace of jaywalking" in the city. Observing that "even the most vigilant driver cannot avoid an accident if someone unexpectedly walks into middle of the road", Metropolitan Magistrate...
03:39 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Martin Scorsese's 3D adventure drama 'Hugo' is finally releasing in India. It is based on Brian Selznick's novel by the name 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'. The film is written by John Logan while Johnny Depp has donned the role of one of the producers of the film. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helen McCrory, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Jude...
08:06 PM, May 03, 2012
Aamir Khan was invited by the auto driver who drove him around town in 2009 when the actor was on an ad promotional tour. ...
09:55 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Aamir Khan, who befriended rickshaw puller Ram Lakhan in Varanasi during his country wide promotion of '3 Idiots', has been invited to his son's wedding. The 47-year-old actor met Lakhan two and half years ago while travelling in disguise in North of India without any bodyguards to promote his film. Lakhan has now invited Aamir to attend his son's wedding in the holy city tomorrow. Lakhan, who too Aamir...
05:13 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: A cab driver, ferrying a five-and-half-year-old girl to school and back home, has been sentenced to three months in jail by a Delhi court for biting her on cheek. Metropolitan Magistrate Kiran Gupta sentenced the taxi driver, holding him guilty of trying to outrage the child's modesty. The court convicted driver Aman Kumar for using criminal force on the minor with the intention to outrage her modesty after...
10:34 AM, Apr 22, 2012
London: A Muslim cab driver in the United Kingdom has been fired from his job after he evicted a family from his taxi for carrying a bottle of wine. The driver has been sacked as he threw out a family carrying an unopened bottle of wine, of which he said, "it's against my religion." Adrian Cartwright, 46, had hired the taxi to take his family out for dinner at an...
09:40 PM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: Around 250 people hired by Delhi Police as drivers last year used fake or forged for securing the job, an investigation has revealed. The police have filed five cases and are in and are in the process of registering more First Information Reports (FIRs) as investigations are being carried on, a senior police official said. In one case, the applicant allegedly forged the licence of a woman in...
12:59 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Chennai: Two employees of a leading finance company, who were carrying three bags of gold coins, were assaulted and robbed of their gold chain and cell phones by the driver of an autorickshaw in which they were travelling, at Koyambedu on Wednesday. In the melee, police say, the auto driver and his accomplice also decamped with a bag containing 2.5 kg of gold coins worth Rs 60 lakh from the...
09:46 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Kolkata: Auto rickshaw drivers went on a rampage in different parts of Kolkata and held rush hour traffic to ransom on Tuesday while protesting hike in fuel prices. Auto rickshaw drivers pelted stones on buses and forced passengers to disembark. The highly unionised three-wheeler operators in the city blocked roads at Kankurgachi, Phulbagan and Hudco crossing in north Kolkata and at Rashbehari crossing in the southern part of the city,...
12:44 PM, Apr 03, 2012
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