CCPA fines Storia Foods, English Oven Rs 1 lakh each for misleading '100%' claims on food labelsTwo prominent food companies, Storia Foods and Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities, have been fined Rs 1 lakh each by the Central Consumer Prote...
21 Jun, 2026, 05.22 PM IST
Meta moves Delhi HC against CCPA order slapping Rs 10 lakh fine for walkie-talkie sale on FacebookThe senior counsel for Meta submitted that, unlike Amazon and Flipkart, Facebook was not an e-market but merely a "notice board", and there...
18 Mar, 2026, 12.23 PM IST
Goyal’s tough love moment; Wipro, Tech Mahindra earningsUnion minister Piyush Goyal said his earlier comments urging founders to focus on deeptech over consumer apps were off the mark. This and m...
16 Jan, 2026, 07.59 PM IST
CCPA fines Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho Rs 10 lakh each for illegal walkie-talkie salesThe Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has initiated suo motu action against e-commerce platforms for listing and selling unautho...
16 Jan, 2026, 09.58 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho were pulled up amid Operation SindoorThe Central Consumer Protection Authority took action against thirteen e-commerce platforms in India for selling walkie-talkies without pro...
11 May, 2025, 09.59 PM IST
Meta gets a reprieve; Infra.Market’s pre-IPO doughNCLAT stays CCI’s data-sharing ban on WhatsApp and Meta platforms. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
23 Jan, 2025, 09.01 PM IST
The price of your phone: How device-based pricing is quietly widening the digital divideRide-hailing apps and e-commerce platforms are under scrutiny for employing device-based differential pricing, where fares and costs vary d...
22 Dec, 2024, 11.18 PM IST
Government plans to make ecommerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart liable for sellers’ fraudThe consumer affairs ministry is working on tightening ecommerce rules to make online retail platforms liable for fraud committed by seller...
23 Mar, 2023, 08.17 AM IST
Over 18,500 toys seized from Hamleys, Archies and other retail stores for lack of BIS quality markSince January 1, 2021, the government has made it mandatory for toys to conform with safety norms specified by the Bureau of Indian Standar...
13 Jan, 2023, 01.28 PM IST
Amazon vs CCPA in Delhi HC over Rs 1 lakh faulty cooker penaltyEtailer says not given chance to see report or respond to findings; CCPA argues Amazon can’t claim right to onboard sellers without checkin...
10 Oct, 2022, 08.37 AM IST
Draft data bill may relax local storage rules; Amazon sues consumer protection bodyProvisions over data localisation in the previous draft of the PDP Bill — withdrawn earlier this year — that mandated certain types of data...
10 Oct, 2022, 07.37 AM IST
Delhi High Court directs Flipkart to deposit Rs 1 lakh penalty for allowing sale of sub-standard pressure cookerAs per the Domestic Pressure Cooker (Quality Control) Order, 2020, which came into force on February 1, 2021, all pressure cookers are requ...
23 Sep, 2022, 08.56 PM IST
HC puts in abeyance CCPA order against Flipkart for selling sub-standard pressure cookerWhile directing that Flipkart's petition against the CCPA order be tagged along with a similar plea by e-commerce giant Amazon, Justice Yas...
23 Sep, 2022, 06.54 PM IST
Delhi High Court puts in abeyance CCPA's order against Amazon over faulty pressure cookers' saleAsking the CCPA to file its response in the matter, the court posted it for further hearing on November 16. On August 4, the CCPA passed an...
20 Sep, 2022, 07.37 PM IST
CCPA imposes Rs 1 lakh fine on Amazon for selling sub-standard pressure cookersThe CCPA also directed Amazon to notify the consumers of all these 2,265 pressure cookers sold through its platform, recall the products an...
04 Aug, 2022, 05.42 PM IST
View: There are reasons why India should fear the new digital monopolists snuffing out enterpriseThe prosecution went on to show a prejudice for proof of immediate economic detriment at the expense of equally deleterious, longterm socia...
26 Oct, 2020, 11.27 PM IST
Here's how consumers will benefit under the new Consumer Protection ActThe new Consumer Protection Act proposes a slew of measures and tightens the existing rules to further safeguard consumer rights.
19 Aug, 2019, 06.30 AM IST