Women student leaders, who were "key drivers" in the protest against the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh last year, are among the women from around the world who will be awarded by the Donald Trump administration.

From heading design and engineering teams, holding key posts to running major automotive companies, women's role in the world of motoring has evolved significantly.

The BJP's guest list for Thursday - when the new Delhi Chief Minister will take his/her oath - includes gig workers, cab and auto rickshaw drivers, farmers, and chiefs of city jhuggis, or slums, as well as women beneficiaries of government schemes.

Things took an uncomfortable turn when he started asking personal questions while she was making the payment.

Chief Minister Atishi on Monday said the drivers and conductors of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and Cluster buses will be suspended if they are found driving away from designated stops without picking up the waiting female passengers.

Haryana Women Commission vice chairperson Sonia Aggarwal and her driver Kulbir were arrested on Saturday by the state's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) over bribe charges.

Ride-hailing app Uber on Thursday launched 'Uber Moto Women,' a first-of-its-kind service in Bengaluru offering women-only bike rides, the company said.

The video opens to show two women attempting to hail autorickshaws across the city, with one speaking in Hindi and the other in Kannada.

The new bike taxi initiative by DMRC aims to provide efficient and time-saving rides within a designated radius.

The Saudi Arabia with strict gender segregation, tough Islamic laws, and dress codes, no longer exists. The country's women are now truly in the drivers seat.

The footage shows the passengers confronting the driver, with one woman grabbing him by the neck and another attempting to slap him.

Twelve people lost their lives in the accident, including three adult women, the tempo driver, and several children, the police said.

Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said.

E-commerce has been a key driver of employment generation in India and online vendors have likely generated 15.8 million (almost 1.6 crore) jobs in the country that includes about 3.5 million (35 lakh) for women, a report said today.

Outgoing Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy says he does not know the reason why despite bringing welfare to maximum households, the elderly, women, farmers, auto drivers and others, he and his party had faced such a humiliating defeat.

An 18-year-old rickshaw driver from a village in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh is overjoyed on meeting King Charles III at Buckingham Palace after she collected a prestigious women's empowerment award in London this week.

A group of women train drivers, who suffered miscarriages while attending duties, has said the Railways Board should frame guidelines to transfer expecting female frontline workers to lighter or stationary jobs in offices

Her three-year-old daughter at her side, single mother Ekawati plies Jakarta's notorious traffic in her three-wheeled autorickshaw, making ends meet as one of a growing number of Indonesian women seeking informal employment outside the home.

At 4.30 in the morning, Jagdish Gulia and his eight-year-old daughter Tannu were glued to television watching Indian women wrestling at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Milly Everatt is hoping to encourage other women to join the industry. She us among the two per cent of women who are also HGC drivers in the country.

Eleven years since the gut-wrenching Nirbhaya rape incident on a moving bus, the Delhi High Court asked the Delhi government today about the feasibility of installing cameras on DTC buses and alert buttons on the driver and conductor's seats.

An e-rickshaw driver, accused of harassing and abusing women passengers, was arrested following an encounter here, police said on Saturday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday flagged off 51 buses of the state transport corporation that will have women drivers and conductors.

Several people have commented on her post, many appreciating her for bringing this incident to the cab company's notice and prompting action against the driver.