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Government and Policy

Govt cracks down on unauthorised sale of walkie-talkies on e-commerce platforms, 13 platforms issued notices, 8 including Amazon, Flipkart and Meta penalised

OpIndia Staff -
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has taken strong action against the unauthorised sale of walkie-talkies on several e-commerce platforms. In a major move...
News Reports

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

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