Mangaluru: Chalo bus, a Navi-Mumbai based transport services company which had announced its discontinuation of services in Mangaluru from August 20 on its mobile app, on Saturday clarified that it is not completely suspending its operations in the city.
Contrary to the earlier reports, the company will only be suspending its live bus tracking feature starting from August 20 pertaining to back-end maintenance work and for not meeting the service benchmarks set by Chalo. The suspension is temporary and there is a possibility of reinstating the live tracking feature in the future.
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Meanwhile, Chalo bus app’s other services including the Chalo bus pass (NFC touch-to-pay card) and daily tickets will continue to be operational.
The company's app, available in 22 cities including Mangaluru, gained popularity, especially among college students. Chalo has also collaborated with the Dakshina Kannada district bus operators association giving attractive offers to customers.
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New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition seeking quashing of the order blocking YouTube channel '4 PM'.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan agreed to hear the plea and issued notices to the Centre and others seeking their responses on the petition.
The plea, filed by Sanjay Sharma who runs the YouTube channel, has sought a direction to the Centre to produce the blocking order with reasons and records, if any, for blocking the channel.
It has also sought a direction to quash the blocking order after calling upon the Centre to produce the blocking order with reasons and records.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioner, said no notice was issued to the petitioner before the blocking order was passed.
"The whole channel is blocked and no reason," Sibal said, adding "the only information I have is from the intermediary".
"Ex-facie it is unconstitutional," he said.
The bench, while issuing notice on the plea, said the matter would be heard next week.
The plea has sought quashing of Rule 16 of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009.
Rule 16 says strict confidentiality shall be maintained regarding all the requests and complaints received and actions taken thereof.
The plea has claimed that the order blocking the channel was arbitrary and unconstitutional.