New Delhi: The Delhi government has decided to hike the auto and taxi fares by almost 30 per cent. The auto fare for the first two kilometres has been hiked from Rs 19 to Rs 25. After that, the fare would be Rs 8 per km, up Rs 1.50 from the current Rs 6.50.
Meanwhile, the taxi fare for the first kilometre has been increased from Rs 20 to 25. The next kilometres in non-AC taxis has been increased from Rs 11 to Rs 14 and in AC taxis, from Rs 13 to Rs 16.
The waiting charge for both is the same - Rs 30.
The hike will be applicable from Thursday....
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07:07 PM, May 01, 2013
Panaji: The Goa government has decided to convert tourist taxis into radio-equipped taxis by equipping them with gadgets like wireless. Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the state Assembly on Wednesday that a group of around 25 taxis could be clubbed together and provided with facilities like wireless sets, introducing a radio-taxi concept in the state for the first time. "We could start with 25 taxis for the time being....
10:38 PM, Apr 24, 2013
In a major embarrassment for Punjab Police, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday directed it to keep away from a young woman, recently assaulted in full public view by policemen in Tarn Taran district after she complained of being sexually assaulted by taxi drivers. ...
01:08 AM, Mar 19, 2013
An aspiring chartered accountant and a taxi driver committed suicide in New Delhi by hanging themselves in separate incidents, police said on Sunday. Upma Singh, 21, a chartered accountancy student, hanged herself from a ceiling fan at her rented house in Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi on Sunday morning, police said. ...
03:37 AM, Mar 18, 2013
A taxi driver was abducted by a group led by two women and beaten up, police said Thursday. The police said it seemed like a case of property dispute. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai came to a virtual standstill on Sunday as Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, a Hindutva mascot and flagbearer of Marathi pride, was laid to rest and lakhs of mourners joined the Marathi leader's grieving family to bid him a tearful farewell. A sea of people, unprecedented in recent memory, descended on Mumbai streets leading from Thackeray's Bandra residence Matoshree to Shivaji Park, to catch the last glimpse of...
07:23 PM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: Delhiites may face trouble commuting on Tuesday. Autorickshaw and taxi unions are on a strike on Tuesday, protesting the mandatory installation of GPS in autos. They are demanding a subsidy on the GPS devices and also a hike in fares. The Delhi government, though, claims that commuters will face no problems with more state transport buses operating on the roads. Representatives of various auto-rickshaw unions on Monday held...
09:09 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Melbourne: A 28-year-old Indian taxi driver was on Tuesday found guilty by an Australian court of raping his inebriated female passenger in 2011 in Brisbane. Sunveer Jassar, hailing from Punjab, was found guilty of raping the intoxicated female student in the back of his cab after driving her to an isolated area in Brisbane's city centre last year on April 12, according to The Courier Mail. A four hour long...
11:23 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Motor Workers Union (AITUC) has demanded the government to revise the autorickshaw and taxi fares by immediately convening a meeting of the central-trade union organisations in the motor vehicle sector. The demand was raised in the wake of the increase in the prices of diesel and petrol in the premium grade. It was on January 14, 2011, that the government had last revised the fares. Now the minimum fare...
12:27 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Chennai: One of the few places where you can see scores of classic black-and-yellow tinted Ambassador taxis still running is the Chennai Airport. And yet, with the absolute dominance of the smaller and faster Indicabs, fares for the 500-odd registered prepaid airport taxis are hard to come by. This resentment spilled over on Sunday night and a few of the old-timers got into a verbal and physical duel with a...
04:18 PM, Sep 11, 2012
London: A woman allegedly stabbed a Romanian taxi driver after he refused to have sex with her for the third time. Nicolae Stan, the taxi driver, claims that the sex-crazed Angelina Jolie-lookalike passenger stabbed him after he refused to satisfy her for a third time. She had already forced the driver at knife-point to have intercourse and perform oral sex, Daily Mail reported. He claims Luminita Perijoc, 30, first asked...
06:02 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Pune: Many owners of private vehicles are running illegal city-Mumbai cab services in violation of the State Transportation Act and fleecing passengers. Parked at railways stations and bus stands in the city to pick up passengers, these vehicles are found trespassing on government property. Such illegal cabs are getting away with it because the traffic police, the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Regional Transport Office cannot decided who should...
05:20 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Mumbai: The LT Marg police arrested a man claiming to be a BJP member for demanding a sum of Rs 5 lakh from a shop owner at Kalbadevi on Sunday. The accused, Sanjay Ramlakhan Gaud (37), was produced at Esplanade court and was remanded in judicial custody. He was released on bail on Monday. According to the LT Marg police, Gaud was demanding the money from one Laxman Dharmani (46),...
02:53 PM, Jul 31, 2012
London: A man dived off London's historic Tower Bridge into the River Thames on Monday during a protest by taxi drivers over their exclusion from part of a special Olympic Games road network in the capital. Police pulled the man from the water under the landmark bridge, from which Olympic rings were suspended to celebrate the 2012 London Games, and arrested him on a public order offence. The Port of...
08:48 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Chennai: As many as 13 persons, including a Kollywood film producer, were arrested on Thursday in connection with the murder of a call taxi driver in Poonamallee. On July 2, a gang hacked Aravindan (39) of Baraniputhur, Mangadu, to death when his car was on the Poonamallee Highway. A passenger in the vehicle, Govindaraj, escaped with minor injuries. Police said the murder was a case of mistaken identity as the...
01:30 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Melbourne: The 25-year-old Indian taxi driver, extradited on charges of raping an Australian woman passenger, had fled the country on a one-way ticket to India after committing the crime, a court was told on Thursday. Jaswinder Singh Mutta, the first Indian to be extradited to Victoria, is facing two counts of rape charges and one of indecent assault. Mutta appeared in a Victoria court where it was heard that the...
11:20 AM, Jul 19, 2012
Bangalore: It is common among frequent taxi users in Bangalore to exclaim, finding god and a taxi is the same. There exists a hefty populace which still depends on public transport and a little lower number depend on taxis on a regular basis. Occasional commuting is what has popularised taxis in Bangalore unlike Mumbai and Kolkata, where they have become a part of local commuting. But in Bangalore, even with...
11:08 AM, Jun 26, 2012
Melbourne: An Indian taxi driver was attacked, abused and his car was smashed, as a group of baseball bat wielding youth went about attacking and robbing cab drivers in Melbourne suburbs. The gang ambushed and robbed five taxis in separate incidents in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Attackers wearing balaclavas and armed with baseball bats pulled up in two stolen cars and attacked the drivers at Sunshine, Brooklyn and Laverton...
12:07 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: Left leaders Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan and Sitaram Yechury on Thursday courted arrest along with a number of their supporters in central Delhi as part of their protest against petrol price hike. The protest was organised at Delhi Gate on Thursday morning and a number of demonstrators blocked traffic. Holding placards and shouting slogans against the government, the Left activists marches towards the Daryaganj Police Station where they...
12:50 PM, May 31, 2012
