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Fake RTA official flees with autorickshaw (February 27, 2005)

HYDERABAD: A person claiming himself to be an official of the Road Transport Authority, reportedly fled with an autorickshaw after sending the driver to get the original documents of the vehicle at Khairatabad. More Info...

Indispensable `Driver Uncles' (July 15, 2004)

AFTER TWO `dry' months they are back. Dashing from one doorstep to another, whizzing from one school to another, these men have suddenly become as busy as bees. They drive into your car porch with that disarming smile, and grabbing the little one, they virtually vanish, while the child next door waits for that blaring vehicle horn. They run the numerous vehicles that ferry children, regularly to school. More Info...

Autorickshaw drivers' writ petition dismissed (August 26, 2003)

AUTORICKSHAWS would soon be getting the parking space in Charbagh, Gomti Nagar, Rae Bareli Road and Munshi Pulia. Autorickshaw drivers for long had been demanding a place for long and had even filed a petition in the High Court for the same. More Info...

Autorickshaw drivers go on strike (June 6, 2002)

CHENNAI: The members of the Auto Workers Association affiliated to the CITU, AITUC, Dr. Ambedkar Auto Sangam and the Autorickshaw wing of the Tamil Maanila Congress today went on a strike condemning the ``unfair hike in prices of petrol and diesel''. More Info...

Autorickshaw drivers rough up Burme (June 18, 2001)

A SENIOR diplomat of the Burmese Embassy, A Wilson, was roughed up by two autorickshaw drivers near the Classic Golf Resort in Gurgaon. The incident was reported on Saturday afternoon while Wilson was returning to Delhi form the golf resort with another diplomat form the Singapore High Commission in his Mercedes. More Info...

Autorickshaw drivers protest over killing (December 14, 1997)

Autorickshaw drivers in Vavuniya staged a demonstration today to protest against the killing of an autorickshaw driver by Sri Lankan police on 11 December. The autorickshaw drivers carried banners condemning what they described as the indiscriminate killing of their colleague by Vavuniya police. More Info...

Taxi, autorickshaw strike hits life in Delhi

As about 60,000 auto and taxi operators observed a strike today in protest against the mandatory installation of electronic meters, commuters in the Capital had a harried time. More Info...

 

A love story in an autorickshaw

After a hectic shooting schedule of over 50 days, Hari Om is set to hit the marquee in May.

The film stars French actors Camille Natta (right) and Jean Marie Lamour (remember the waiter in Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool?) and Vijay Raaz (left) of Monsoon Wedding.

Hari Om is about a broadminded autorickshaw driver who is content with his life until the mafia turns his life upside down. He then meets a French tourist in Jaipur who, for some reason, hires his autorickshaw to tour Rajasthan. More Info...

Autorickshaws to get parking spots

AUTORICKSHAWS would soon be getting the parking space in Charbagh, Gomti Nagar, Rae Bareli Road and Munshi Pulia. Autorickshaw drivers for long had been demanding a place for long and had even filed a petition in the High Court for the same. More Info..

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Autorickshaw :

An autorickshaw (auto or rickshaw or tempo in popular parlance) is a vehicle usually for hire and is one of the chief modes of transport in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka it is also popular in many other countries. It is a motorized version of the traditional rickshaw, a small two- or three-wheeled cart pulled by a person, and the velotaxi. The autorickshaw is also related to its Thai cousin, the tuk-tuk and the Bajaj in Indonesia. Some more ways this is called are auto rickshaw, auto-rickshaw, autorikshaw, auto rikshaw, auto-rikshaw. Motorized rickshaw, Motorized rikshaw, Tuktuk, Three wheeler and in many parts of India simply as AUTO.