Online food delivery and restaurant discovery platform Zomato has laid off nothing less than 540 employees from the customer support team which is looking to reduce redundancies in back-end support roles.

Facebook user Obesh Komirisetty revealed through a post on the social media website that he was at a mall and could not find a ride back home. "It was around 11.50 pm, I am at Inorbit Mall road and looking for an auto but couldn't find anything to reach my room," he wrote.

The protesting employees said that Hindu delivery boys were not comfortable in delivering food containing beef while Muslim employees said they do not want to deliver food that has pork in it.

One day after Zomato's reply to one of its customer, who cancelled his order due to non-Hindu delivery boy, the online food-delivery service is facing wrath from one section of the people, who also took their war ahead with 1 rating to the app on Play Store.

Those who order food from Zomato will now get their parcel delivered through commercial drones. With the approval of Drone 2.0 policy, India is all set to allow the use of drones for delivery purposes just like other vehicles, air taxis.

Food delivery app Zomato on Monday announced that Durga Raghunath, currently Chief Executive Indian Express Digital Media Services, will be joining Zomato as Senior Vice President - Growth, effective December 21.

Ride-hailing app Ola and food delivery platform Zomato on Thursday announced a partnership in which users will be able to book an Ola ride to the restaurant from the Zomato app.