Articles tagged with: *Ola
New Ola GC, Sandeep Chowdhury, plans to grow legal team from 10 to 15
ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd, the parent company of now multiple Ola-branded businesses, has hired Nuvoco Vistas Corp chief general counsel (GC) Sandeep Chowdhury as its new GC.
Ola hails new group general counsel: Vedanta’s Nitin Banerjee joins sprawling tech-taxi empire
Former group general counsel (GC) of resources giant Vedanta Limited, Nitin Banerjee, has joined the Ola group, which is fast becoming a technology conglomerate, as its group GC.
Ola cab driver arrested after Delhi city judge alleges he insulted her modesty, made sexual remarks
An Ola cab driver has been arrested for molesting a judge, police said on Thursday.
Semi-working Saturday at the Supreme Court: Refuses to extend diesel taxi conversion deadline
The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to give more time to taxi operators in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch from diesel to the cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG). The deadline for the change, which has been extended twice, is Saturday. A number of cab operators and their associations ...
Delhi gov to HC: Zero-tolerance of Ola, Uber 'exploiting' consumers (who voluntarily click on algorithmic surge prices during odd-even)
The city government has informed the Delhi high court that it was taking strict action against app-based taxi aggregators, including Ola and Uber, for allegedly overcharging and arbitrarily applying surge rates during the odd-even traffic scheme. Filing an affidavit before Justice JR Midha, the Delh...
Ola's Aman Lekhi gets HC judge to ask Uber how many diesel cabs its added lately
The Delhi high court today asked the app-based cab service provider Uber to apprise it of the number of the new diesel taxis it has added to its fleet after court’s order that no diesel-based cabs will be included by taxi service providers. “File an affidavit with respect to new diesel taxis you hav...
AZB, Indus on ex-Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin's Ola buy
AZB & Partners advised former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and his family on their acquisition of a minority stake in ANI Technologies which runs taxi app Ola. Ola was advised by IndusLaw. AZB Delhi partner Anil Kasturin and senior associate Jaishree Tolani acted for Sarin who, as Mint reported, is ...
Uber, Ola to get licenses under new governing law
Taxi aggregators Uber and Ola cabs plan to get licenses to comply with latest government guidelines reported the Economic Times . Since the two start-ups are not governed by the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 or any of the state acts on vehicles, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways last week releas...
Ola gets Delhi HC CNG reprieve till 2016 as, fairly, Uber too now will get caught in same net
The Delhi high court on Wednesday allowed app-based cab service providers to run diesel-run taxis for point-to-point transportation here, provided they shift from diesel to CNG by 1 March, 2016. Justice Manmohan on the request of Uber India granted time to app-based companies to shift from diesel-ba...
Delhi HC pulls up Uber about its Delhi diesel cabs in contempt plea vs Ola
The Delhi high court on Tuesday made it clear that it will allow to only CNG-based taxi vehicles to run in the national capital and asked Uber India to inform when it can replace the diesel cabs with these.
When Uber attacks: Challenges Delhi rules in HC with Rajiv Nayar as Ola faces another petition [UPDATE-1]
Taxi operator, under fire, fires back as Ola can’t seem to get a break…
CCI declines interim action vs Ola (Cyril AM) predatory pricing (despite stinging dissent) [READ ORDER]
App-based taxi operator Ola’s parent company ANI Technologies has won a favourable majority decision from the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which declined to pass any interim order around the allegation that the company was involved in illegal predatory pricing.
HC bans Ola non-CNG cabs in Delhi
The Delhi high court on Thursday said Ola cabs, an app-based taxi service, can run only on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel in the national capital. Congress leader and senior lawyer P Chidambaram represented ANI technologies (Ola cabs) in the high court and promised that diesel-based vehicles of t...
Delhi gov't finally pro-active, aims for new policy on taxi operators
The city government on Tuesday told the Delhi high court that it has modified the Radio Taxi Scheme and is coming up with new specific scheme in 10 days for radio taxis which will include mandatory installation of GPS devices and a panic button. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice...
Delhi HC rejects Ola cabs' plea against diesel taxi ban
The Delhi high court today dismissed app-based cab service provider Ola’s plea against a single judge’s order asking the Delhi government to “strictly enforce” the ban imposed by it on January 1. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath dismissed the plea filed by Ola cabs ...
Delhi HC asks gov't to 'strictly enforce' injunction that Ola cabs is violating
The Delhi high court on Wednesday slammed app-based cab service Ola for not complying with the ban imposed on it and asked the city government to “strictly enforce” the injunction. Justice Manmohan, while refusing interim relief to Ola to vacate the stay, issued notice to the central and Delhi gover...
Ola drives Delhi HC to almost throwing a permanent ban at rule-breaking, pollution causing cab app
Taxi-calling app Ola Cabs drove the Delhi high court to the point of suggesting that the app should be permanently banned as it was plying in Delhi without permission from the city’s transport department, reported the Express . An irate bench headed by justice Manmohan Singh, while hearing Ola’s ple...