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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: e-commerce

India tightens rules on online retail to check deep discounts

The move is aimed at helping BJP win support of local traders — a key voting bloc for the party that suffered defeats in assembly elections this month.

Everyone is growing but no one is making money in India’s champion sectors

Aviation, telecom and e-commerce/digital businesses are all success stories, but the issue is the same in all three sectors: Profitability.

Criticised for protectionism, India set to review e-commerce policy draft

The draft addressed data localisation to antitrust rules in e-commerce regulation in India.

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son explained in his own words. About 3,03,513 of them

Ahead of Q1 results, an analysis of Son's comments from previous briefings to see how his focus has changed and what may lie ahead.

Boom in international stock markets drowns noise of impending trade war

US, Canadian, Australian and Indian stocks hit new highs drowning fears of a trade war.

Thanks to Flipkart, India now a battleground for Walmart vs Amazon

Walmart has bid $15 billion for Flipkart Online Services Pvt, which could seal a triumph over Amazon.com Inc., which has been trying to take control of Flipkart with a competing offer.

Biggest Indian cargo company wants to build an Uber for shipping

Mumbai based Allcargo, reported a drop in profit in four of the past five quarters and is betting on technology to revive volumes and take on overseas rivals such as DHL Worldwide Express. 

Walmart is said to be favoured over Amazon to buy Flipkart

Walmart is in talks to take a minority stake in Flipkart that could go up to 50 or 60 per cent. While Amazon is pushing hard for deal with Flipkart because Walmart’s money will make competition even more fierce.

K. Vaitheeswaran’s new book has many lessons for Modi’s Startup India

K. Vaitheeswaran co-founded India’s first e-commerce website, Fabmart.com and his book speaks of how it collapsed.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.