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Satwinder Singh, an Indian-origin Uber driver in New Zealand, has been sentenced to seven years and two months’ jail for a 2023 incident when he switched the GPS of his cab and diverted to a different route while molesting a teenage passenger. The NZ Herald reported that the teenager had booked a short ride from…
Visuals from the accident (Image/X@x10mirbeyx) At least seven people were killed and 11 others were injured on Saturday after an intercity bus crashed into a lorry on a motorway in southern Turkey.According to the local governor’s office, the accident took place before dawn on the highway connecting the cities of Adana and Gaziantep. State news…
GURGAON: The car involved in the hit-and-run accident that killed a 58-year-old cyclist on Akashneem Marg at DLF-2 earlier this week was being driven by a man who didn’t have a driving licence. Amitabh Jain, husband of a Parliament museum official, was cycling on one side of the empty internal road around 7am on Wednesday…
JAIPUR: A traffic cop trying to stop an errant truck driver inside a no-entry zone in Jaipur clung to the speeding vehicle’s bonnet for nearly 500 metres as the offender accelerated and swerved multiple times in a bid to throw him off, leaving witnesses bracing for the worst. The nerve-wracking scene, which unfolded around 8.30am…
NEW DELHI: A man died and two others were injured after being hit by a Mercedes near Nelson Mandela Marg in South West Delhi’s Vasant Kunj in the early hours of Sunday. According to police officials, a PCR call reporting the accident was received at around 2:33 am at the Vasant Kunj North police station….
NEW DELHI: Rapido has denied any involvement in an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into a Rs 331-crore money deposit trail linked to a bike taxi driver account.According to ED officials, the account received Rs 331.36 crore between August 2024 and April 2025, in what they described as a classic case of a “mule” account used…
PUNE: A senior consultant (35) with an IT firm suffered a stab wound to his rib as an SUV driver attacked him with a knife during an argument after the mirrors of the four-wheeler and the victim’s scooter brushed each other in Kharadi on Wednesday evening.The Kharadi police are looking for the SUV driver and…
Another Indian-origin truck driver in the US, Sukhjinder Singh, has been taken into ICE custody for possible deportation, months after he caused a fatal crash and then pleaded guilty to the vehicular manslaughter that took place earlier this year in West Virginia. Singh was sentenced to the maximum of one year in jail after he…
NEW DELHI: After a Delhi-based environmentalist, Bharati Chaturvedi, alleged that she was physically assaulted by an Uber driver on Wednesday, Uber removed the driver from the app.In her email to Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha, she recounted that while travelling to her doctor’s clinic in Sarvodaya Enclave, the driver became “inexplicably agitated” after she asked…
BENGALURU: In a disturbing incident that jolted Chitradurga on Saturday night, a 35-year-old auto driver attempted to end his life in the heart of the city, allegedly driven to desperation by persistent harassment from traffic police. The man, identified as Thippeswamy from Malappanahatti village on the outskirts of Chitradurga town, poured petrol on himself and…
