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I manage commercials for a few celebrities. Can the department of consumer affairs please advise what are the risks and rules for celebrity endorsements. What risk or liability does a celebrity run...

Can the Consumer Department please make it a point to share information about misleading advertisements with consumers. Neither they not ASCI (which is supposed to be self regulating industry body)...

Dear ADITI MITRA, The cp act discusses extensively in sec2 it says; makes to the public a representation in a form that purports to be— (i) a warranty or guarantee of a product or ...

I don't know if its just me or others have also faced this. I have literally struggled with the warranty process and rules of most gadget and appliance companies. We have had issues with...

Dear Officer In Charge, Water Bottles continue to be sold at rates multiple times higher than MRP printed on the bottle. Pl see the item 4 in the attached bill from Cafe Cassia on Gangdhar Ch...

Almost all the multi national banks are closed on Saturday and the Indian banks operate 2 saturdays. Very few are available on every saturday. Saturday is the only day most professionals have to ge...

All over India, esp in north India, sonograms are done illegally or unofficially to determine sex of child before birth. Even some of the reputed doctors, indicate indirectly what a coup...

Dear All, One important announcement For all of those who have Income Tax return and have received an e-mail stating that there has been an error in calculating your tax and a refun...

If industry experts are to be believed, the recently implemented goods and services tax (GST) regime might have inadvertently opened a channel for gold importers to launder money out of the country...

The issue of Chinese products flooding the Indian market has been the hot topic in the circles for over 2 months. Some are imported officially and some are smuggled through the porous borders ...