NEW DELHI: Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) imposed Rs 3 lakh fine on Maluka IAS coaching institute for advertising “misleading claims guaranteeing success” in prelims and mains in UPSC Civil Service exam 2022. The institute had claimed that over 120 of its students were selected in the exam.“The decision was taken to protect and promote … Read more
New Delhi: Over 19 percent of ads that violated the advertisement norms in 2023-24 were from the healthcare sector, according to the annual complaint report by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). Of the 8,229 total ads across platforms such as television, print, digital media and over-the-top (OTT) media services which were found violative … Read more
New Delhi: Acharya Balkrishna, the managing director of Patanjali and a close aide of Yoga guru Ramdev, offered an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court Thursday for the misleading publicity carried out by the company about its medicines’ “miraculous abilities”. The company’s advertising campaigns had also raised doubt over the effectiveness of modern medicine. However, … Read more
The Ayurved company also said it has “a database with more than one crore people, with real world evidence, preclinical and clinical evidence”. But doctors and researchers, who have been highlighting what they call are “unscientific claims” made by Patanjali and similar companies, say the government does not seem to be serious about curbing “misleading … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday objected to Patanjali Ayurved making “false” claims to cure diseases in advertisements for its products and threatened to impose costs on the company for resorting to such practices. Hearing a petition filed by IMA which alleged that a smear campaign was organised by the group against the Covid-19 … Read more