Indians book 11% of all worldwide Uber rides with an annualised bookings rate of $1.64 billion in the third quarter, according to Pradeep Parameswaran, President of Uber India and South Asia. Uber India’s business added 1.5 million new users through low-data consuming app Uber Lite. "Uber doubled its engineering team in the country as of the third quarter,” Parameswaran said.