Even the students have been caught in the wave, with companies like Gartner, WorkIndia and Uber revoking job offers made to graduates from IIMs, SPJain and MDI.

Uber released its Safety Report on December 5, 2019. The report provided data compiled over a period of two years. It highlighted the number of assaults, accidents, sexual abuse and homicides that happened in Uber vehicles.

Lucinda Barlow will be responsible for the marketing of Uber products and businesses, excluding Eats.

During her ride from HAL to Langford Road, at around 11 pm, Aparna Balachander tweeted that her driver said that women should leave their workplace before 7 pm.

The programme had already kicked off in 2018 and since then 6000 Uber drivers have been sensitised. Now in 2019, the company has set its target to train double the number of drivers.

India’s startup capital has been declared unsafe for women. Yet again, on 5 July an Ola cab driver tried to kidnap a woman passenger (25) on her way to the airport. She was rescued by the staff at a toll booth on the highway. The driver Suresh was arrested by the Chikkajala police. The statistics too […]

A former Uber software engineer is suing the company for sexual harassment, racial discrimination and pay inequity, reported BBC. The lawsuit Ingrid Avendaño worked for Uber from February 2014 to June 2017. She claims to have experienced sexual harassment, pay inequity and racial discrimination while working there. Avendaño filed her lawsuit on May 21 in […]

As India becomes angrier and more irritable than ever, we the citizens are letting bigotry make more decisions for us than logic. Recently a man cancelled his ride with a popular cab service provider because he did not want to give his money to a ‘jihadist’. Cancelled @Olacabs Booking because Driver was Muslim. I don't […]

This time it wasn’t Uber’s fault. Jody Warner, the Dallas assistant district attorney, was fired after she drunkenly insulted and threatened an Uber driver. Warner had called for an Uber ride home from a Dallas pub, when she was in an inebriated state. She then started insulting the 26-year-old driver, Shaun Platt The lawyer told […]

Uber is under fire yet again. In its social media promotions in Bangalore, it urged husbands to avail of the UberEats food delivery service, so that their wives could take a day off from the kitchen. “Dear husbands, a gentle reminder – today is Wife Appreciation Day,” it had tweeted Of course, this message was […]