Arul Louis- An Indian Uber driver has been sentenced to a year in prison for transporting people illegally entering the US from the Canadian border, according to officials. Jaswinder Singh, 30, who had received asylum in the US, was sentenced by Judge David Hurd at a federal court in Utica, New York state on Thursday […]
Ritu Jha- Bhavish Aggarwal, IIT Bombay alumnus and co-founder and CEO of India-based ride-sharing giant Ola Cabs, told the more than 400 IITians in his keynote speech at the IIT Bay Area Leadership Conference last month about how coming from a middle-class family to running a taxi business with a billion-dollar valuation and the challenges […]
Partha Chakraborty- Uber and Lyft should be a wake-up call for easy money and the irresponsible investor. Buried in their regulatory filings are facts that highlight the possibility that access to capital may have already been drying for Uber and Lyft. Uber and Lyft changed our perception of “personal mobility”. For me […]
IANS- An Indian-origin Uber driver in the US has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a sleeping passenger and driving her over 60 miles from her destination to boost his fare. Harbir Parmar, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping and one count of wire fraud in White Plains federal court earlier this week, prosecutors said. […]
indica News Bureau – Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal took on fellow Indian American and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who appeared before the Congressional committee for a grilling by lawmakers on December 11, over issues of sexual harassment and hate speech. Jayapal asked Pichai to voluntarily commit to ending forced arbitration for all internal employee issues […]
