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Bad tobacco ads

States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

Ramadoss does a turnaround on cola controversy

Commercial breach

The shifting smoke of tobacco

Junk games and school children

World Health assembly to discuss fat issues

Ads term gutkha ban unfair

Analysts call the ads misleading; health ministry plans action against industry

More to junk food than meets the eye

IN SHORT

Cola gets an artist going

A mastadon rages on

Corporate pressure may put India's obesity prevention plans on hold

Divert, deny, dismiss and damn

Letters

Free food body of corporate influence

Supreme Court asks food regulator to form new scientific panels

Letters

An open letter to Sania Mirza

The truth of the matter is that antibiotics are rampantly misused in India by the poultry industry to fatten chicken in less time and with less …

Right here, right now

Remote navigation by satellite rules out all chances ofgetting lost in our technology-driven world

Claims we buy

For food manufacturers, misleading claims are a way of marketing in India. It's time the government made the regulations stringent and brought …

Misleading ad endorsements by celebrities: Consumer Protection Bill, 2018 has loopholes

On one hand, the Bill has penalty provisions for the endorsers and on the other it is giving them a route to get away

A billowing problem

Promoting cigarette smoking and refusing to accept its resultant health hazards is but sheer avarice on the part of our politicians as well as …

Alcohol ads: Teens targeted?

A recent study in the US reports that magazines popular with teenagers such as Rolling Stone and People tend to carry more alcohol advertisements.…

Fed up with baby food

Is baby food advertising unethical? Yes, thinks the government. It has issued notification to enforce an amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes,…

Baby food ad market alive

When the amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act 1992 banned advertising and promotional activity for …