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Uber Shikara launched in Kashmir: How Asia’s first water transport service is a confluence of technology and tradition

OpIndia Staff - 3 December, 2024

International taxi aggregator Uber has launched 'Uber Shikara' service in Kashmir, providing tourists to book shikara boats on an app to traverse the iconic Dal Lake for the breathtaking vistas it offers.

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Indian Air Force signs MoU with Uber: Security concerns, data breaches faced by the ride-sharing app and a lesson from Strava

OpIndia Staff - 22 October, 2024

Uber has faced multiple data breaches over the past 10 years and was even found guilty of concealing some of those breaches.

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Would have kidnapped you if this was Pakistan: Uber driver’s shocking exchange with a female passenger in Canada

OpIndia Staff - 18 May, 2024

The woman told the taxi driver that she felt frightened rather than complimented from their conversation.

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Australia: Hindu woman Swastika was de-platformed by Uber for 5 months because of her name, but fought against it and won

OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2024

Swastika Chandra grew up in Fiji where her name was common among the Pacific nation's large Indian community.

Crime

Rajinder Pal Singh smuggled 800 Indians from Canada to the US using ride-sharing app Uber, jailed for 3 years

OpIndia Staff - 29 June, 2023

The California resident smuggled more than 800 Indian citizens into the USA using the ride-sharing app Uber

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“Absolute rubbish”: Ola and Uber deny Indian media reports speculating merger between the two

OpIndia Staff - 29 July, 2022

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal denied media reports claiming that his company is in talks with Uber for merger

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The Uber Files: How Uber tried to blame local officials in India after the rape in an Uber cab in Delhi in 2014, stonewalled...

OpIndia Staff - 12 July, 2022

Uber Files were leaked to the British newspaper The Guardian and also shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and several other media organisations.

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The Uber Files: Massive leak reveals how Uber bent laws, avoided police, and was aided by senior politicians in France during its rapid global...

OpIndia Staff - 11 July, 2022

The Uber Files comprises over 124,000 records, including 83,000 emails spanning 2013 to 2017 and several other conversations, revealing how Uber lobbied with top govt officials

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Netizens raise alarm after Twitter user claims Uber in Jammu shows Pakistani currency

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2022

One Twitter claimed that ride hailing service showed the amount in Pakistani currency PKR in Jammu

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USA: Abusive woman passenger threatens to sue Uber after getting banned, gets banned from Lyft too

OpIndia Staff - 10 March, 2021

Ride-hailing service Lyft has said that they are removing the said woman from their community and will not let her use their cabs. Interestingly, the woman had in a video, stated that she prefers Lyft.

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