Connaught Place restaurant charged Rs 80 extra as service fee without asking; GST was added on that charge too; CCPA orders it to pay Rs 10,000CCPA fined a restaurant in Connaught Place Rs 10,000 for automatically adding an Rs 80 service charge to a customer's food bill and applyin...
Consumer watchdog steps up probe into Apple on iOs 18 software update issuesConsumer watchdog investigates Apple for potential iOS 18 user rights violations. This probe follows numerous complaints regarding device m...
Rapido faces Rs 10 lakh penalty over ‘pay more, get a ride’ prompts, dark patterns in appThe Central Consumer Protection Authority fined Rapido Rs 10 lakh for misleading interface designs. Rapido used dark patterns like 'Confirm...
Indian consumer regulator escalates probe into Apple's software warranty termsIndia's consumer regulator is investigating Apple's software warranty terms. The iOS 18 update allegedly damaged iPhone functionality and r...
Wholewheat biscuits contained only 19% wheat but 52% maida, company said the 'wholewheat' was only a trademark; Consumer court orders company to pay Rs 1 lakhCCPA has fined Pladis India Rs 1 lakh for marketing McVitie's Wholewheat Marie biscuits as "Wholewheat" despite the product being only 19.5...
Carlyle-backed VLCC raises Rs 110 crore from BlackSoil to fund growthVLCC has secured ₹110 crore financing from BlackSoil Capital for its expansion. This funding will support growth across beauty, wellness, a...
Construction at Ram Temple to be finished by Sep 30; firms to leave premises by Oct 30Ram Temple construction will be finished by September 30 this year. Larsen & Toubro and Tata representatives will leave the premises by Oct...
CCPA fines Amazon Rs 1 lakh for selling sweets as Ayodhya Ram Mandir prasadThe CCPA fined Amazon Seller Services one lakh rupees for unauthorized religious product sales. Ordinary sweets were falsely advertised as ...
CCPA fines Storia Foods, English Oven Rs 1 lakh each for misleading '100%' claims on food labelsTwo prominent food companies, Storia Foods and Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities, have been fined Rs 1 lakh each by the Central Consumer Prote...
CCPA slaps fines on PhysicsWallah, McAfee for 'Dark Pattern' practicesIndia's consumer watchdog has fined edtech firm PhysicsWallah and cybersecurity company McAfee. They were found using deceptive interface d...
CCPA fines Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho Rs 10 lakh each for illegal walkie-talkie salesThe Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has initiated suo motu action against e-commerce platforms for listing and selling unautho...
CCPA slaps Rs 3 lakh fine on VLCC for misleading ads on slimming treatmentsThe Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has fined VLCC Ltd Rs 3 lakh for misleading advertisements about slimming treatments using...
CCPA prepares draft guidelines to curb coaching centres from making false claims in advertisementsThe font of disclaimer/disclosure/important information in the advertisement should be the same as that used in the claim/advertisement. Th...
Restaurants still within their rights to levy service charge, say industry bodiesThe Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) and restaurant associations have stated that the Delhi High Court's rece...
Consumer protection regulator penalises Paytm mall, SnapdealIt imposed the fine after serving a notice and giving them a chance of fair hearing. While Snapdeal took down the listing and blocked selle...
Paytm Mall, Snapdeal penalised Rs 1 lakh each for selling defective pressure cookersPaytm Mall listed pressure cookers of Pristine and Quba on its platform despite the product description clearly stating that it does not ca...
Law that makes it easy for consumers to file complaints kicks in from next weekThe provisions include consumers’ right to file cases against manufacturers, sellers or distributors of adulterated and spurious products i...