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| Here’s everything that transpired during the course of the day… |
| Service charge on hotel and restaurant bills is not mandatory, govt said today. Hotels and restaurants will not decide on service charge to be levied but it will be at the customer’s discretion, food and consumer affairs minister R V Paswan said. Guidelines will be sent to states for necessary action, the Union minister added. As per the guidelines, the column of service charge in a bill will be left blank to customers to fill up before making the final payment. |
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| India will ‘pay dearly’ if it continues playing “the Dalai Lama card”, Chinese media said. In an article, the Global Times said India will pay “dearly” if it continues the “petty game” of playing the Dalai Lama card and dismissed as “absurd” New Delhi’s reaction to China’s renaming of six places in Arunachal Pradesh. India had yesterday hit out at China for giving Chinese names to six places in Arunachal Pradesh, saying assigning invented names to towns of the neighbour does not make illegal territorial claims legal. |
| Indian-Americans began White House petition to save Kulbhushan Jadhav. The petition seeks Trump administration’s intervention to save Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for alleged espionage and subversive activities. It requires at least 100,000 signatures before May 14 to qualify for a response from the Trump administration. The petition called ‘We the People Petition’ was created by someone called S.S. |
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| The government plans home delivery of petroleum products to consumers. The oil ministry tweeted this today adding that the home delivery service would be possible if customers make a pre-booking to cut long queues at fuel stations. About 350 million people come to fuel stations every day, it said. India, the world’s third biggest oil consumer, will be introducing daily price revision of petrol and diesel in five cities from May 1, ahead of a nation-wide roll out of the plan. |
| Akhilesh Yadav’s Lucknow-Agra Expressway project comes under Yogi govt’s scanner. The expressway is being scrutinised for an alleged scam, involving farm land being passed as land for residential purposes to get higher compensation. Yogi Adityanath has been reviewing the schemes of the Akhilesh Yadav government, including the Samajwadi Pension Yojana, Gomti river front project, Smartphone Yojana and cycle track project. |
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