Nadiad: A shocking incident in Nadiad has led to the arrest of a school teacher accused of poisoning three people, including a deaf-mute man, with soda laced with sodium nitrate. The victims died after consuming the tainted beverage, prompting a murder investigation by the Nadiad City Police. The accused, identified as Harikishan Makwana, a teacher at Sanali Primary School in Mahudha taluka, allegedly ordered sodium nitrate online with the intention of using it for self-harm. However, he decide...Read More

Ahmedabad: Amazon.in today announced a 30% year-over-year (YoY) growth across its Home, Kitchen, and Outdoors business in Gujarat and Ahmedabad, along with approximately 20% growth in new customers. As per the company, the region has witnessed a 20% increase in demand for sports and fitness products. Cricket, being the most popular sport in Gujarat, saw a 60% YoY increase in cricket gear sales. Additionally, as more customers turn to yoga for fitness and mindfulness, yoga essentials have expe...Read More

Mahesana: Mehsana police booked a delivery boy of Amazon for allegedly choking a female customer with the intention of killing her and kicking her father after an argument over the delivery charge and issuing a receipt for it in Mehsana. The accused is booked under IPC sections under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder), 325 (voluntarily causes grievous hurt), 323 and 504(intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person). Somnath road based Hargovindbhai Parmar (age 65, live...Read More

New Delhi: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Monday rejected Amazon's plea challenging the decision of fair-trade regulator CCI to suspend the approval for the e-commerce major's deal with Future Coupons. A two-member bench comprising Justice M Venugopal and Ashok Kumar Mishra, upheld the findings of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and directed it to pay the penalty of Rs 200 crore imposed on Amazon by the fair-trade regulator within 45 days from Monday. "This a...Read More

Bhopal: Amid a row, the Madhya Pradesh government has directed the police to register an FIR against officials of e-commerce giant Amazon and its owner for allegedly selling products, including shoes, with the image of the Indian national flag, Home Minister Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday. Amazon faced the ire of a section of Indian social media users over merchandising some products, including apparel and food items, that feature images of the Indian flag, with some sayi...Read More

New Delhi: Amazon on Monday faced the ire of a section of Indian social media users over merchandising some products, including apparel and food items, that feature images of the Indian flag, with some saying that using the tricolour in such a way was an insult and a violation of the country's flag code. Netizens shared pictures of items like apparel, cups, keychains and chocolates that feature images or imprint of the tricolour on Amazon.in website, and sought a ban on these items. Hashtags ...Read More

IANS commentary By Ruchika Rao A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has stayed arbitration proceedings initiated by Amazon against the Future group in relation to a 2019 investment by Amazon in a Future group company. The High Court, after hearing the parties for over two hours, passed an order recording that a prima facie case for interim relief had been made out by the Future group. The Future group had approached the Delhi High Court after the arbitral tribunal refused to hear it...Read More

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed the Amazon-Future arbitration which is going on before a three-member arbitral tribunal over the latter's Rs 24,500-crore deal with Reliance. The high court also stayed a single judge's January 4 order that had dismissed the Future Group's two pleas seeking a direction to the arbitration tribunal, adjudicating Amazon's objections against the former's deal with Reliance, to take a decision on its application for terminating the arbitration pr...Read More

Gandhinagar: Department of Industry and mines, Government of Gujarat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Amazon India for capacity building to enhance e-commerce export. According to a note released by the State government, Amazon will hold taining sessions, webinars and workshops in main cities of Gujarat including Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Bharuch and Rajkot for B2C (Business to Customers) e-commerce export in cooperation with Industry department of State government and h...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain pleas of e-commerce firms, Amazon and Flipkart, challenging an order permitting the Competition Commission of India to carry out a preliminary investigation into the alleged violation of the competition law. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said that challenging the enquiry is like wanting a notice before the registration of an FIR under the criminal law and asked the e-commerce giants to submit themselves to the prob...Read More