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Asci receives complaints against 159 ads in 2009-10
MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) received complaints against 159 advertisements during the fiscal year 2009-10.
The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of Asci pulled up 87 advertisements, following which the advertisers had to either withdraw or modify the ad.
The apex self-regulatory body for advertising content raised questions against 77 ads in the truthful and honest category, out of which 58 were upheld.
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Source: Asci
On the decency front, there were complaints against 30 ads. Asci, however, upheld only eight of them.
CCC also pulled up 13 ads for breaching the norms of safe practices, while 21 were acquitted.
Eight ads were found guilty for unfair competition, out of 13 complaints.
The information was released by Asci in the second issue of its quarterly magazine, Ezine.
Asci has recently added new set of advertising guidelines for the educational, automobile and food and beverage sectors.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
