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The government has taken various measures to protect the interest of consumers, including action against coaching centres for misleading advertisements, Union minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday. Responding to supplementaries during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, the Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution minister said many notices were issued to coaching centres. Besides, penalties have been levied for misleading advertisements. Issues of misleading advertisements by coaching centres have come down relatively, Joshi said, adding that many measures have been taken against violation of consumer protection rights. Tributes were paid to former member Kavuru Sambasiva Rao who passed away last week as soon as the House met for the day. The members stood in silence for a brief while as a mark of respect. Soon after the obituary reference, an anguished Birla told the members that it was not a good practice to chat with each other when the House was paying tributes to members
The government on Monday said it has decided to increase print media advertisement rates by 26 per cent. This will yield several significant benefits, both for the government and the media landscape, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said in a statement. "The media rates for print media per sq cm for 1 lakh copies of dailies in the black and white advertisement have been enhanced from Rs 47.40 to Rs 59.68, an increase of 26 per cent," it said. The government has also agreed to the recommendations of the Rate Structure Committee (RSC) relating to premium rates to be offered for colour advertisements and preferential positioning. The rates for release of the print media advertisements by the Central Bureau of Communication (CBC) were last revised by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on the basis of the recommendations of the eighth RSC on January 9, 2019, which were valid for a period of three years. The ninth RSC was constituted on November 11, 2021, for makin
Britain's antitrust watchdog on Friday labelled Google a strategic player in the online search advertising market, paving the way for regulators to force the company to change its business practices to ensure more competition in that market. The Competition and Markets Authority said its investigation found that the US tech giant has strategic market status" because it has substantial and entrenched market power in general search and search advertising. It marks the first time the watchdog has issued the designation since new UK digital rules took effect at the start of the year. The label doesn't imply any wrongdoing. But the regulator said it means it has the power to consider using proportionate, targeted" measures to make sure general search services are open to effective competition and that consumers and businesses are treated fairly. Online search ads appear alongside results from Google's search engine, usually tagged as Ad or Sponsored" versus online display ads, which ..