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On Tuesday, the Bigg Boss OTT fame took to her Instagram and revealed that her cab driver showed up 'completely drunk' after he disappeared with her luggage. According to the information shared by Urfi, she hired a Uber for a span of six hours on her way to the airport.

Uber has an internal strategy known as the "kill switch" to stop internal software in order to evade government raids. Uber used this strategy at least 12 times during raids in Hungary, Romania, France, the Netherlands, and India. Uber acknowledged "mistakes and blunders" in the past.

Sam stated that his residence was approximately 17 kilometres from the nightclub. The cab company had charged the young man Rs 10,000 for only 17 kilometres of the trip. Sam's residence is extremely close, and it takes less than half an hour to get home on an empty route.

This is in addition to Uber's previous announcement of the Rs 18.5 crore (USD 2.5 million) initiative to get 1.5 lakh drivers on its platform vaccinated over the next six months. Uber said COVID-positive drivers will be unable to access the platform while they're receiving partial earnings support as a safety measure to help limit the spread of the virus. Capgemini has tied up with multiple partners across locations.

Ride sharing company Uber today announced a partnership with Airports Authority of India (AAI) to offer easier options to riders for travelling from the airports.

Global cab-hailing service Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, who earlier headed its self-driving car project, for allegedly stealing some 14,000 documents from Google`s Waymo.

The strikers will gather at Mata Sundari Gurudwara off the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg and will march to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's house in Civil Lines.

Commuters had to face a harrowing time on as app-based taxis remained off roads in the national capital for the fourth day on Monday. People had to walk down to the nearest metro station or shell out inflated fares demanded by autorickshaws.

Online cab-hailing firm Ola on Tuesday announced its partnership with Apollo Hospitals to create comprehensive medical programme for driver-partners.

This will sure come as good news for Micromax smartphone users as they can now book Uber cabs without downloading the application.

Uber co-founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick had to encounter a "scary situation" on his arrival in India as he found himself "without a visa" and it was only a high-level intervention that saved him from being deported.

Online cab service provider Uber on Thursday announced new features in its driver`s app which are aimed at predicting, preventing and reducing the number of crashes on the road.

Uber's new features called Request Rides for Others helps you to request cab for family and friends.

Suggesting a stricter regulatory regime for app-based taxi aggregators like Ola and Uber, a high-level government-appointed panel today recommended capping of their fares.

Falling in line with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's stern warning against surge-pricing, taxi aggregator Uber has informed Delhi government that it is ready to cap its fares at rates fixed by the government in the national capital.

The government said it is up to Congress to act.

The Supreme Court has banned plying of diesel or pettrol cabs in the Delhi National Capital Region from May 1 and has asked the cab owners to convert to LNG. It  refused to extend the deadline for phasing out diesel cabs in NCR, saying that it has allowed enough extensions in the past.

The fifth day of the Delhi government's odd-even traffic scheme saw Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai declaring it a "success story so far" even as online app-based taxi operator Uber sought to blame the Delhi government for a shortage of its cars to serve commuters.

On the fourth day of odd-even scheme run by Delhi government, passengers faced difficulties in booking cabs as the platform showed fares to be as high as 5 times than the normal fare.

Uber cab service said that they were temporarily suspending surge with immediate effect.