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Service charge in hotels totally voluntary: Govt

The government today approved new guidelines giving consumers the right to decide service charge they wish to voluntarily pay on a hotel or restaurant bill.



PTI
NEW DELHI

The guidelines, which have made service  charge “totally voluntary and not mandatory”, will be sent to states  for necessary action, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas  Paswan said. 
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K’taka teen drowns in pool at Colva

Tragedy struck a family from Tumkur-Karnataka when a 17-year old girl Zaiba Syed drowned in a swimming pool at a Colva hotel early Friday morning.

The Goan Network
Published Apr 22, 2017, 6:52 PM IST
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Two other girls rescued, battling for life at GMCthe goan I networkMARGAOTwo other females, who were rescued in a critical condition, were later shifted to the Goa Medical College and hospital, Bambolim. The 10-member family from Tumkur had come to Goa on Thursday and had soon checked in a hotel at Colva. Members of the family had headed to the Colva beach yesterday.   The tragic incident occurred around 8.15 am on Friday when three female members of the…

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