{"id":1028997,"date":"2026-08-15T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028997"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:23:04","slug":"govt-orders-ola-uber-rapido-indrive-to-remove-advance-tipping-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/govt-orders-ola-uber-rapido-indrive-to-remove-advance-tipping-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt orders Ola, Uber, Rapido, InDrive to remove advance tipping features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief for millions of daily commuters, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has directed Ola, Uber, Rapido, and InDrive\u2014to remove \u201cadvance tipping\u201d and \u201cadd-on\u201d features from their mobile applications that suggest passengers can improve their chances of getting a cab by paying extra before a trip begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief for millions of daily commuters, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has directed Ola, Uber, Rapido, and InDrive\u2014to remove \u201cadvance tipping\u201d and \u201cadd-on\u201d features from their mobile applications that suggest passengers can improve their chances of getting a cab by paying extra before a trip begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029038,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028997\/revisions\/1029038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}