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BIS intensifies crackdown on e-commerce firms, seizes thousands of items without ISI marks from Amazon and Flipkart warehouses

ANI - 27 March, 2025

The Delhi Branch of the National Standards Body of India, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) have seized over 4000 products, both without an ISI mark and marked with fake ISI labels, from warehouses of Amazon and Flipkart

World

US Postal Service was delivering e-commerce parcels from China and Hong Kong ‘duty free’? How a Trump order has hit Chinese retail companies

Shraddha Pandey - 5 February, 2025

The Chinese e-commerce companies were exploiting this provision to ship massive quantities of low-value items directly to customers in the US, bypassing the tariffs which would otherwise be applicable.

News Reports

Karnataka govt imposes cess on every transaction on aggregator platforms to be used for Gig Worker Welfare Fund

OpIndia Staff - 18 October, 2024

The cess amount will be transferred to a Gig Welfare Board, from where the beneficiary gig workers will be paid.

Government and Policy

Government instructs e-commerce platforms to remove drinks and beverages including Bournvita from ‘Health Drink’ category

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2024

The ministry cited a finding by the child rights body NCPCR that there is no beverage category called Health Drink under the rules.

News Reports

Big Basket flaunts how thousands of Indians have ‘BigBasket’ as their password, only to realise it’s not something to be proud of. Read why

OpIndia Staff - 17 November, 2022

Big Basket flaunted being at fourth number of most used passwords without realizing the list was based on cyber security incidents

News Reports

Karnataka HC dismisses petitions against probing Amazon, Flipkart: Here are the allegations against e-commerce giants

OpIndia Staff - 12 June, 2021

Karnataka High Court quashed petitions filed by Amazon and Flipkart against an order by competition regulator over unfair trade practices.

Social Media

Netizens have a field day after Myntra decides to change its logo over ‘insulting to women’ complaint

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2021

Myntra has decided to rework its logo after it ran into a controversy over its alleged 'insulting' and 'offensive' logo.

News Reports

E-commerce platform Myntra to change its logo after a woman lodges complaint calling it ‘insulting and offensive towards women’

OpIndia Staff - 29 January, 2021

Myntra ran into controversy after one woman lodged a complaint calling the company's logo 'insulting' towards woman

News Reports

Amazon-Reliance tussle: Reliance Retail to complete its deal with Future Group without any delay

OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2020

Amazon had secured a temporary stay by a Singapore-based arbitration court on Future Group's Rs 24,713 crore deal with Reliance Retail.

News Reports

Modi govt signs MoU with food delivery major Swiggy to bring street food vendors on the app

OpIndia Staff - 6 October, 2020

Under this mission, the government will be targeting at least 50 lakh street vendors, who will be provided with a working capital loan of up to Rs 10,000 to be payable in 12 months EMI.

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