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Campaign India Team
Feb 07, 2020

Government takes aim at fair-skin and sexual-performance ads

Ministry proposes rules amendments that include imprisonment for up to five years.

According to the act, medicines and magic remedies to cure 78 diseases cannot be advertised.

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