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Department of Consumer Affairs invites you to join India's online consumer community. Via this community, you can share your consumer experiences, find guidance and raise consumer issues. This initiative is founded by Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Government of India and part of the multi pronged approach to enable the Indian Consumer's voice.

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Surrogate and Inappropriate advertising
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Front page of newspaper yday advertising pan masala and gutka. With areca nut being a proven carcinogen and a psychoactive compound. Will our authorities please do something and save the lives of ...

By Ruchika L Maheshwari

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Are competitive coaching institutes misleading students
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And parents. See attached, all the top institutes claiming that the same topper students studied at their institute. Parents and students looking at 1 ad at a time get misled.

By Sneha Goyal

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Our genZ has wrong priorities
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Gen Z today need iPhones which costs 1 lakh and lasts for ~48 months: 2083/month Netflix: 199/month Prime: 125 Hotstar: 299 Mobile plan: 300 Starbucks: 15000 Swiggy: 1...

By Anshu Saxena

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Loot in India on iphones
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IPhone 14 Pro max price in Official Apple store, in Thailand is 45k bhat = INR 1.07 lakh. Price in India = 1.4L. Difference of 33k will cover return air-fare. Why do you ...

By Ruchika L Maheshwari

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Mahindra Car Manufacturing defects issues
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I am a customer of Mahindra Scorpio N Vehicle and it is having Manufacturing defects from Day 1, Company dealers are doing trail and error and problem is not solved yet. They are spoiling vehicle w...

By GIRISH M R

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Watch this metric for your bank friends
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The loan versus deposit growth equation is one to watch HDFC Bank:- Loan growth at 16.7% Deposit growth at 20% ICICI Bank:- Loan growth at 18% Deposit grow...

By Vinita Agrawal

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Celebrities and Govt officials - wake up request
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Dear Celebrities and Govt officials: Please avoid promoting Vimal, Kamla Pasand, Pan Parag, Rajnigandha, RajShree type of products. We all know where these habit forming ads lead to.

By Dipali Yadav

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24 USA working days to clear a USD cheque?
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I deposited a USD check in my savings acoount in HDFC Bank. The bank told me that it would take 24 US working days fir the check to clear !!. Reason - they have to send it Mumbai and then US. In th...

By Padmanabhan G

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Surrogate ad disaster
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Have never understood how people who are blessed with this much success, public respect and crazy wealth…. ….can still get themselves to promote tobacco brands for a little...

By Swati M

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Prices of veggies
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Bhindi - 120 per kg, Turai - 120 per kg, 🍋 Neebu - 160 per kg in Delhi NCR. What are you paying in your town?

By Mala Sehgal

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