{"id":1036304,"date":"2026-09-17T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036304"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:00:56","slug":"centre-tells-cab-apps-to-stop-request-for-tips-before-rides-cites-unfair-trade-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/centre-tells-cab-apps-to-stop-request-for-tips-before-rides-cites-unfair-trade-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre tells cab apps to stop request for tips before rides, cites unfair trade practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has ordered cab aggregators to stop providing advance tipping options even before booking a ride as the practice is misleading and unfair, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The secretary&#8217;s comment comes a day after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) slapped a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido for various unfair business practices, including advance tipping for drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has ordered cab aggregators to stop providing advance tipping options even before booking a ride as the practice is misleading and unfair, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Wednesday. The secretary&#8217;s comment comes a day after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) slapped a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido for various unfair business practices, including advance tipping for drivers.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036304","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=1036304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036304\/revisions\/1036348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}