No hotels or restaurants can add service charge automatically in food bill: Consumer Affairs Ministry
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has issued guidelines for preventing unfair trade practices and violation of consumer rights with regard to levying of service charge in hotels and restaurants. The guidelines issued by CCPA stipulate that hotels or restaurant shall not add service charge automatically or by default in the food bill. No collection […]
Saudi Arabia arrests 300 pilgrims without permits
MAKKAH: Saudi authorities have arrested and fined nearly 300 people caught trying to perform Haj without permits, an official said on Monday, as the kingdom prepares to receive one million people for the annual pilgrimage. Some 288 “citizens and residents were arrested for violating Haj regulations,” Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Basami, head of Haj security, told […]
Lalu Prasad hospitalised after falling from stairs
Rashtriya Janata Dal president and former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad was admitted to Patna’s Paras hospital on Monday morning after his condition worsened following a fall from the stairs. RJD sources have said he was in the ICU and was having breathing problems, adding that his condition was serious. Lalu Prasad on Sunday evening fell […]
Floods hit southeast Australia, forcing evacuations
MELBOURNE: Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate southwest Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, on Sunday with torrential rain and damaging winds pounding the east coast and floods expected to be worse than those that hit the region in the past year. Heavy rain and overflowing dams and rivers all combined to threaten flash floods and […]
Russia kills 19 with missiles near Ukraine’s Odesa
SERHIIVKA: Russia rained missiles near Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday, hitting an apartment building and a resort and killing at least 19 people, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Russian troops were driven off the nearby Snake Island. One section of a nine-storey apartment block was completely destroyed by a missile that struck […]
India reports 17,070 fresh Covid cases, 23 deaths in last 24 hours
India reported 17,070 fresh Covid infections and 23 deaths in the last 24 hours, stated the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday. With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 1,07,189 with active cases now constituting 0.25% of the country’s total positive cases. As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s […]
Israeli parliament dissolves, set for fifth poll in 4 years
JERUSALEM: Israeli lawmakers dissolved parliament on Thursday, forcing the country’s fifth election in less than four years, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid set to take over as caretaker prime minister at midnight. After the unanimous 92-0 vote, the centrist Lapid embraced outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose year in charge of an unwieldy, eight-party coalition […]
Sec 144 to be imposed from tomorrow in Hyderabad ahead of BJP national executive meet
Ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive meeting in Hyderabad, the Cyberabad Commissioner of Police M Stephen Raveendra on Wednesday issued prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) applicable under the limits of Cyberabad Metropolitan commissionerate area in the city from July 1 where the party meeting will be […]
First case of cat-to-human Covid transfer reported
LAHORE: Scientists in Thailand have reported the first solid evidence of a pet cat infecting a person — a veterinary surgeon — with Covid-19, though researchers say such cases of cat-to-human transmission are probably rare. As per a report published in the science journal Nature on Wednesday, researchers said the results were convincing, but were […]
Maha Governor asks Uddhav Thackeray to face floor test tomorrow
With Maharashtra political crisis continuing, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has asked Uddhav Thackeray led Shiv Sema government in the state to prove his majority on the floor of the House on June 30. Regarding this, the Governor has written to the state Assembly secretary to convene a special session of the State Assembly on Thursday […]