FREE BUS RIDE

The Dy CM was questioning the PM's assessment of metro finances. The PM, in a recent interview, had questioned the freebies that potentially create a crisis of funds for a state government. The governments, he said, would build metro networks in a c...

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Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has taken serious note of "patently false and deliberately misleading" statements by members of a particular political party and its ministers that the schemes and subsidies pertaining to "free" electricity, water and b...

Gautam Adani's Adani Group is partnering with Uber to enter the electric vehicle market and integrate Uber services into its Adani One super app. Adani aims to invest $100 billion in green energy and expand its airport business. Adani competes with ...

BabyBus is still very active in India despite TikTok and other Chinese apps being banned. Experts have raised questions over the handling of Indians’ data by the company that provides customised free digital content primarily for children.

Uber will invest $10 million in the state by 2025, and create about 50,000 livelihood opportunities over the next five years, it added. For the bus service, Uber signed an agreement with the state Transport Department at the Bengal Global Business S...

Drivers of private bus operators, whose vehicles are wet-leased by BEST, continued their strike for the seventh day, resulting in over 550 of the more than 1,600 buses remaining off the roads. The drivers are protesting for salary hikes and equitabl...

The Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy has attacked former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai over claims on Twitter that employees of Karnataka’s transport utilities were receiving only half their pay since the announcement of the Shakti programme, a ...

“Around 30-35% private buses in Karnataka are not running right now. The private bus sector, which has eight lakh employees across the state, will soon have to start letting people go for want of business,” Chairman of the federation S Nataraj Sharm...

Economists caution that it is challenging to draw direct correlation between free travel and labour force participation. “When it comes to these kinds of policies, it’s going to be hard to isolate the benefits, as much as we would like to determine ...

Since the implementation of Shakti free bus ride scheme, auto drivers have complained that their earnings have reduced to a minimum, according to news reports.

In just three days since the launch of Shakti scheme -- a key pre-election promise of the Congress -- in the state, 98,58,518 women travelled free in state buses which has cost the state exchequer Rs 21.06 crore.

The free ride in non-luxury state-run buses for women across Karnataka under the 'Shakti' scheme cost the state exchequer Rs 8.84 crore, according to the transport department. If one were to take into consideration the Monday figure, the annual expe...

The free bus ride service will benefit more than 41.8 lakh women passengers every day and would cost the state exchequer an estimated Rs 4,051.56 crore annually. The scheme is available for women, who are domiciled in Karnataka, for the journey with...

According to the order, the beneficiaries of the scheme should be a domicile of Karnataka. Along with women, transgenders can also make use of the 'Shakti' scheme.

The new Congress regime in its second Cabinet meeting on Friday provided a timeline for the implementation of the five election guarantees the party had pledged to implement if voted. The first Cabinet meeting on May 20 gave in-principle approval fo...

Gandhi, who also had coffee in a Cafe Coffee Day outlet on Cunningham Road, talked with women at a nearby BMTC bus stop and asked them about the difficulties they face while traveling. He also told them about the Congress’ schemes for women in the p...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacted with college students and working women in Bangalore, ahead of Assembly elections in Karnataka. He discussed topics such as price rise and transportation issues affecting women's budget. He also spoke about Gr...

"As women use public transportation in the city, traffic congestion and air pollution in the city will be reduced and mass transportation in the city will be improved," read an official release from BMTC.