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Flipkart expands benefits for sellers under 'Growth Capital' programme

Flipkart restructured biz model to exercise control over inventory, retail prices, alleges CAIT

10:50 pm May 20, 2021

New Delhi: Traders’ body CAIT on Thursday urged the government to investigate the ”blatant” violation of FDI and taxation rules by e-commerce major Flipkart, alleging that the Walmart-owned firm had ”creatively” restructured its business model to exercise control over inventory and retail prices. Flipkart was violating FDI policy ”by creatively structuring its marketplace business model and creating a […]

Gujarat CM conducts aerial survey of cyclone-hit areas

8:46 pm May 20, 2021

Ahmedabad : Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Thursday conducted an aerial survey of cyclone-hit areas in Amreli and Gir-Somnath districts and later said compensation will be given after assessment of damage caused to crops and property. Rupani’s aerial survey came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a similar exercise to assess the devastation caused by cyclone Tauktae in Gujarat and adjoining Union […]

Maha: Girl, two women rescued from flesh trade; one held

8:39 pm May 20, 2021

Thane: Two women and a girl were rescued from flesh trade by the police, who conducted a raid at a flat in Mira Road of Maharashtra‘s Thane district, an official said on Thursday. The raid was conducted at Shanti Nagar locality on Wednesday by Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police, he said. “Acting on a tip-off that […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Mother, son found dead at home in northeast Delhi

8:36 pm May 20, 2021

New Delhi: A woman and her son were found dead inside their house in northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar on Thursday morning, police said. The deceased has been identified as Umlesh (56) and Ashok (29). They stayed on the first floor and ran a general store on the ground floor of the house, they said. When […]

TN gets consignment of medical oxygen from Odisha

8:28 pm May 20, 2021

Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu received its 10th consignment of medical oxygen on Thursday by rail from Odisha, amid the COVID-19 surge in the southern state. An Oxygen Express train carrying 29.24 metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) arrived at Madukkarai Railway station near here from Rourkela in Odisha, a railway division release said. Tamil Nadu […]