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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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Unethical practice of ecommerce sites
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Some ecommerce sites have developed a process by design where they are luring customers to place orders for stuff they dont have in stock. Ex right size or pack is not available. They st...

By Seema Somani

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Sanitary napkins and hotel
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Congratulations all who voted to lower gst on sanitary napkins. Glad to hear its accepted. Also Land mark decision today to charge GST for hotels on actual consideration rather than on declare...

By Naina Mittal

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Cap Surge Pricing by Ola and Uber
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Local Circles members pleased to share with you due to efforts by folks like myself and yourself in Kolkata, from now on, none of two major aggregators — Uber and Ola — can charge a sur...

By Radhika Maheshwari

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No monitoring agencies to check medical instruments.
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Sugar testing machine in the market of various reputed make are giving 25 to 30 % enhanced reading due to rainy season.This lead to mislead doses of medicine.Their testing strips are overdated or n...

By Virinder Suri

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Electricity Consumers
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Electricity Consumers I am attaching two newspaper reports which have appeared in NBT Faridabad. While these are just two reports pertaining to Faridabad, but I see such news every now and t...

By S K Virmani

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GST on discounted price(discount on product is more than 19%)
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If GST is allowed to be charged on MRP if the discount on the product is more than 19%. I am regularly shopping online and this is reply I got when I raised query. It would be helpful if we have mo...

By Sonal Singh

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USE OF WATER HAS DRASTICALLY INCREASED DUE TO DETERGENTS USE
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Friends, God's greatest gift to human race, animals, plants, flowers, insects, water is a NECTAR of LIFE, WHICH NO MONEY CAN BE EQUATED WITH. Since the development and research, scienti...

By Kaushikk D. Vyas

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Piece of advise to smartphone userd
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Friends - Do Not give microphone access to any app, not even whatsapp (unless u make whatsapp calls) The moment you do that they can record your conversation. Recently a friends con...

By Amit Mishra

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Talcum powder
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This is in reply to Shika Jain's issue with J&J. Talcum powder by J&J had used asbestos sometime ago and this had caused ovarian cancer in some of the women. These women had filed a case an...

By Dr Mathew Thomas

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J&j baby powder info from Patanjali
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People of Patanjali are saying that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged that the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain...

By Shikha Jain

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