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The Centre has called a meeting of restaurant owners over the issue of service charge levied by eateries on their customers. The meeting, called by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, will be held on June 2, 2022, with the National Restaurant Association of India.

As per a statement issued by the department, “issues pertaining to service charge levied by restaurants” will be discussed during the meeting.

The meeting comes days after Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh wrote a letter to the restaurant body and highlighted the collection of service charges by eateries. He told them that the restaurants and eateries are collecting service charges from consumers by default, even though collection of any such charge is voluntary and at the discretion of consumers and not mandatory as per law.

Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh on Monday said every Sikh should possess a “licensed modern weapon” because “such circumstances are developing", sparking a sharp reaction from Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann who said the temporal head of the Sikh community should instead give a message of peace and brotherhood. Terming the Jathedar’s remarks as “mischievous”, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring demanded he be removed from the post.

“The teachings of Guru Hargobind Singh Sahib are still relevant. There is a need, especially for Sikh boys and girls, to follow the orders of Guru Hargobind Singh. They should take training in ‘gatka’ (a traditional martial art), sword fighting and shooting. And every Sikh should also try to possess a licensed modern weapon because such are the times and such circumstances have been developing,” the Jathedar said in a video message.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been sentenced to one-year jail term in a road-rage case, was on Monday brought to Rajindra Hospital, Patiala for a medical checkup.

The 58-year-old former cricketer on Friday had surrendered before a court here and later sent to the Patiala Central Jail. He was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in the 1988 road-rage case. As Sidhu has to undergo rigorous imprisonment, he will also have to work in the prison.

According to reports, Sidhu has been lodged in Barrack No. 10 at the central jail here and didn’t have dinner on the first night in prison. The leader has been lodged in the barrack with four other prisoners, and the former state Congress chief is prisoner number 1,37,683.

NASA’s Voyager-1 is currently floating in interstellar space, roughly 23.3 billion kilometres far from our planet Earth. Launched 45 years ago, the Voyager-1 became the first spacecraft to exit the solar system in 2013. Even after almost half a decade, scientists are able to detect signals and receive data from the spacecraft, thanks to the Attitude Articulation and Control System (AACS). But recently, the data received baffled NASA scientists for the deceptive nature of it. The telemetry data that is being received on Earth is mysteriously different from the on-board condition of the spacecraft.

The Maharastra State goverment has announced a cut in fuel prices. After the Centre slashed excise duty on petol and diesel by Rs 8 and Rs 6 respectively, the Maharashtra state government announced a reduction in petrol and diesel prices by Rs 2.08 per litre and Rs 1.44 per litre respectively.

The revised price of petrol in Mumbai is Rs 111.35 and diesel will cost Rs 97.28. Currently, petrol is being retailed at Rs 120.51 per litre and diesel at Rs 104.77 for one litre.

In Kolkata, after excise duty cuts, the prices of petrol is Rs 106.03 (Rs 115.12) and Rs 92.76 (Rs 99.83) for diesel.