House panel favours phased adoption of proposed digital competition law to regulate Big TechA parliamentary committee suggests a phased approach to the digital competition law. The law aims to regulate Big Tech companies. The commi...
11 Aug, 2025, 08.38 PM IST
Govt may commission market studies before bringing in ex-ante regulations for Big Tech: MoS for corporate affairsThe government might study the market before implementing the Digital Competition Bill. This bill aims to regulate Big Tech companies. A pa...
21 Jul, 2025, 07.43 PM IST
Digital Competition Law unlikely before second half of FY26The Indian government is delaying the finalization of a digital competition law until the latter half of the next fiscal year. Extensive in...
21 Dec, 2024, 02.11 AM IST
Draft Digital Competition Bill: government may hold new round of discussions with stakeholdersA final draft of the Digital Competition Bill will be released after perusal of stakeholder comments and the suggestions received by variou...
19 Jul, 2024, 08.42 AM IST
MeitY may ask MCA to keep ex-ante out of Digital Competition Bill for nowThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology advises excluding the ex-ante provision from the Digital Competition Bill. Stakehold...
15 Jul, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
IAMAI view on draft Digital Law not shared by all constituents: four members tell MCAFour members of IAMAI, including Bharat Matrimony, Match Group, Hoichoi, and ShareChat, express divergent views on ex-ante regulation in th...
01 Jun, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Draft digital competition bill will make business untenable: IAMAIEx-ante regimes tell businesses precisely how to behave, or what to do. Under the current ex-post regime of the Competition Act, companies ...
16 May, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Big Tech says ex-ante antitrust regulations will hurt innovationDraft Digital Competition Bill proposes ex-ante regulations similar to the EU's DMA, impacting user experience and innovation. Concerns ove...
30 Apr, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why does X support proposed digital competition law while Meta, Google, Apple oppose it?The Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), formed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, had on Tuesday proposed a new digital competi...
14 Mar, 2024, 09.11 PM IST
New antitrust law for large tech firms shouldn’t stifle innovation: expertsZomato, Swiggy, Flipkart and Oyo have opposed the new regulations on digital competition proposed by a government-appointed committee. Indi...
13 Mar, 2024, 11.35 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: What the proposed digital competition law looks to regulateThe Ministry of Corporate Affairs' Committee on Digital Competition Law has advocated for a novel legal framework to govern competition in ...
13 Mar, 2024, 05.01 PM IST
Big Tech, few Indian entities oppose ex-ante regulation under new law; others lend their supportDigital firms including Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, and Uber resisted ex-ante obligations under a new digital competition law. S...
13 Mar, 2024, 07.04 AM IST
New antitrust law may cover Big Tech with 10% India operationsDeliberations are also on to bring those digital firms that have a turnover of more than Rs 2,000 cr in India under the law even if they do...
09 Mar, 2024, 11.18 PM IST
AI, gig economy pose challenges for competition law: MCA Secretary Manoj GovilWhile delivering the valedictory address at the BRICS International Competition Conference in the national capital, Ministry of Corporate A...
13 Oct, 2023, 07.23 PM IST
MCA to handle competition issues in digital markets; Meity to look at sector-specific, technical issuesThe Ministry of Corporate Affairs said on Tuesday it would look into competition issues in digital markets while the Ministry of Electronic...
04 Jul, 2023, 07.22 PM IST
PhonePe chief Sameer Nigam lashes out at tech founders backing ex-ante regulationsEx-ante regulations aim to address issues identified beforehand preemptively, by laying out a list of dos and don’ts for stakeholders.
18 May, 2023, 05.15 PM IST
IAMAI submits final recommendations to CDCL amid accusations of bias towards Big TechIn the final submission, the IAMAI has argued against the prescription of ex-ante regulations, saying that ex ante measures "may limit grow...
13 May, 2023, 06.11 AM IST