What gas

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Pulling a fast one

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Fighting Tobacco

Shaming companies

Water conservation slogans mandatory on Bhopal's hoardings

News snippets

Dow and the Blue Planet Run

Corporate care for mine workers

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Business on pedals

PETA has no meat

Appetite for junk

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Who's paying for the ads?

Online Pure hype

New car from Maruti sold through Pete Seeger

Against Cola advertisements

FT goes into a Shell

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Parliamentary panel moots penalty for misleading celebrity endorsements

Celebrities featuring in misleading advertisements of products should be penalised with a fine of up to Rs. 50 lakh and five years of imprisonment,…

Rock rap: companies, HP face the music

SC comes down heavily on corporates and HP government, slapping a Rs 5-crore fine for defacing rocks in Rohtang Pass

Blow to anti-AIDS campaign as condom turns taboo subject

The paanwallah-doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan will show a village council member warning …

It’s all greenwash

Eco-friendly products, services are nothing but excellent marketing strategies

Misinformation campaign

Advocacy groups oppose Coca-Cola’s Rio Olympics sponsorship

A study claims that sugar-sweetened beverages led to around 180,000 deaths globally in 2010

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

Big tobacco replies

UK tobacco companies will challenge a government report suggesting a ban on tobacco advertising