The accident took place around 2.30 am in Oshiwara in western suburbs

Swara Bhasker had asked Zomato to pull down its ads from Republic TV

'Like everyday, my parents started cooking at 6 am. When they reached the shop at 8.30 am, they found people were already lined up outside,' says son of Kanta Prasad.

During the protest in Kolkata, few of the employees claimed that they had quit their job as Zomato has a sizeable Chinese investment and urged people to stop ordering food via the company.

A Zomato spokesperson said that its alcohol home delivery service will go live in Ranchi on Thursday and seven other cities in Jharkhand over the next couple of days.

Over the next couple of days, the company will get on Zoom video calls with the impacted employees to walk them through the next steps and help them find jobs as soon as possible.

Outlook found that food delivery partners at several food joints in the national capital were not practicing social distancing.

Uber Eats has about 26,000 restaurants listed on its platform from 41 cities.

Vandana Shah took to Twitter to post about the bizarre incident, which she said happened on Monday around noon when she found that her dog 'Dottu' went missing from Karve Road.

Zomato had laid off 541 employees across its customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams earlier this month