An auto rickshaw or tuk tuk (auto, autorick or rickshaw in popular parlance) is a motorised vehicle that is one of the chief modes of transport across many parts of South and East Asia …
My wife and I (total age: 140 years) being a be-car couple usually do our rare visiting/shopping either by walking, rickshaw or CNG. Over the last two weeks, my wife’s CNG has twice been accosted by a traffic cop who then grills both the driver and passenger with questions like “Where are you coming from and going, are you going by meter or paying extra?” as if the CNG drivers are the only ones making a little hay in the Bangladeshi sunshine! From long experience, and so as not to get embroiled in a three-sided altercation, my wife gives the driver a clean bill of health and is allowed to proceed.
The municipal corporation here has shortlisted five rickshaw pullers of the city for allotting them solar-cum-battery operated rickshaws. These will be allotted on Wednesday at a formal ceremony.
A total of 10 solar rickshaws will be launched, though five more pullers are yet to shortlisted by the civic body, which is the nodal agency of the UT administration for launching the scheme.
Sanjay Bhimrao Gadge (25) was looted by the driver of the autorickshaw he was traveling in , and two other co passengers at Kalyani Nagar in the early hours on Saturday.
Police said that he took a rickshaw under the ‘share a rickshaw’ scheme to go to Chandan Nagar. When he boarded the rickshaw two people were already sitting in it.
The SolarCab hybrid from SolarLab was developed as a response to the pollution and congestion of London. It gets 80% of its power form the photovoltaics on its roofs
It was just another hot day in Jaipur when Harish, an autorickshaw driver, sees Whitney, a University of Chicago student, in the distance and was awestruck. He asks her out for a cup of tea and she says no. He asks again, and she says no again. But Harish’s persistence pays off, by the fourth time she comes around and they both grab a cup of tea. He shows her around Jaipur and, at the end of the day, he proposes to her. She accepts.
Flick-shaw could have been just another rickshaw, though with a weird look. Destiny though, had some other plans for the London rickshaw and it came out to be the world’s smallest cinema.
Made for Virgin Media Shorts Awards at the BFI, the 126cm by 130cm rickshaw will comfortably seat two on its red velvet seats and run shortlisted movies from the 12 finalists.
The cozy little cinema has a bespoke screen and floor length curtains for full effect.
