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  Honest Mumbai auto driver returns Rs 1.5 lakh left behind by commuter

  India | July 12, 2016 20:36 IST

  Kalyan: An act of sheer honesty was recognized when an auto rickshaw driver returned Rs 1.50 lakh to a passenger from Dombivli this Sunday. Krishna Gosavi, who was carrying the amount to pay as token

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  An illiterate auto driver gets 39kg documents in reply of RTI query

  India | January 14, 2016 19:10 IST

  New Delhi: An auto rickshaw driver in Jaipur got the 39kg weighing documents in reply to an RTI query he filed some 20 years ago. He did so for getting information on the 1.5 bigahs of

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  How an engineer became an auto driver

  India | September 09, 2015 14:54 IST

  A decade back or before no one would have imagined that an engineer would have to ply an auto to make his ends meet. India is producing around 1.5 million engineers annually which has resulted

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  Read how an auto driver treated his lady passenger with utmost care and respect at midnight

  India | July 07, 2015 15:03 IST

  When Ranjani Shanker, a young woman from Bangalore, failed to book a cab, she settled for an autorickshaw. It was a 38 kilometres trip from a coffee shop in Bangalore city to Kanakpura Road and

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  Auto driver gets 7-yr jail term for robbing army man

  India | October 26, 2014 10:49 IST

  New Delhi: A 24-year-old auto driver has been sent to seven years in jail by a Delhi court for robbing and injuring his passenger, an army personnel, in 2011.Additional Sessions Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj awarded

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  High speed does not amount to rash or negligent driving: Delhi Court

  India | October 15, 2014 14:21 IST

  New Delhi: A Delhi court has acquitted a bus driver of the charges of rash and negligent driving leading to a death of an auto driver, saying that driving at a high speed does not

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  Auto driver arrested for molesting teenage girl

  India | August 10, 2013 7:19 IST

  Kolkata, Aug 10: An auto driver has been arrested for allegedly molesting a teenage girl passenger in Salt Lake area, a satellite township located in the outskirts of Kolkata.The 22-year-old auto driver was arrested last

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  Mumbai auto driver's daughter tops CA exam

  India | January 23, 2013 14:40 IST

  Mumbai, Jan 23: Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based auto-rickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination.Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her parents and

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  Mumbai auto driver saves a marriage, returns Rs 3.5 lakh worth jewellery to bride

  India | November 29, 2012 23:08 IST

  Mumbai, Nov 29: Shrikant Yadav, an  auto  driver plying in Mumbai, played the Good Samaritan on Wednesday evening, when he singlehandedly saved a wedding which was on the verge of being called off.  Shrikant Yadav

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  Mumbai girl smashes auto at dead of night, auto driver escapes wrath

  India | August 14, 2012 21:56 IST

  Mumbai, Aug 14: A girl in Mumbai on Monday night smashed an autorickshaw, after she alleged that the auto driver tried to molest her.The auto driver ran away in fright, as the girl hurled stones

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  Raj Thackeray Targets North Indians Again

  India | October 05, 2011 14:05 IST

  Mumbai, Oct 4: Targeting North Indians yet again, this time over a proposed autorickshaw strike, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday alleged that most of the auto drivers caught indulging in malpractices "were from UP

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  Thane Auto Driver Sets Traffic Constable Ablaze

  India | October 28, 2010 11:35 IST

  Auto driver Mahendra Kevat was so much incensed at being asked for  his vehicle's documents that he set a traffic constable on fire  at the Navghar bus stand on Wednesday night after a fight between