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New Delhi: India’s financial crime agency will summon Flipkart and Amazon executives as it steps up an investigation into alleged foreign investment law violations, days after raiding some of the e-commerce firms’ sellers, a senior government source told Reuters. The planned action signals growing regulatory scrutiny of Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon when their sales are rapidly growing in India’s $70 billion e-commerce market. An Indian antitrust investigation also found the two companies breached laws by favouring select sellers, Reuters has reported. Amazon and Flipkart have maintained they comply with the laws, but the Enforcement Directorate has for years been investigating…

New Delhi: The song ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ played as Vistara’s Goa-Bengaluru flight landed at its destination on Sunday, invoking nostalgia among crew and members a day before the carrier’s time in the Indian aviation landscape was to come to an end. The full-service carrier Vistara, which is a 51:49 per cent joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, is all set to merge with Air India on November 12. In an Instagram post, the airline said, “As the plane ascends, so do our dreams; let’s glide toward the future, where the sky isn’t the limit, but just the…

Team Goemkarponn Panaji: The season-ending Sunlite State Ranking Badminton Tournament 2024, organized by Sunlite Sports and Cultural Club and Shri Ashok Walke Charitable Trust in collaboration with the Goa Badminton Association and the Sports Authority of Goa, is set to begin today at the Indoor Stadium, Campal, Panaji. This final ranking tournament of the season promises intense competition as top sub junior and junior talents from across Goa compete in U11, U13, and U17 categories for boys and girls, spanning singles, doubles, and mixed doubles events. “With a total of 13 events and around 200 young participants, the tournament will…

New Delhi: Facing a CCI probe for anti-competitive practices, online food delivery platform Zomato has asserted it complies with the country’s laws while rival Swiggy said it is committed to complying with local regulations. Both companies termed news reports on the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) investigation “misleading”, maintaining that the CCI is yet to pass its final order on the matter of unfair business practices, including alleged preferential treatment to some restaurant partners by Zomato and Swiggy. In a regulatory filing, Zomato said the CCI had issued a “prima facie” order on April 4, 2022, which directed the Office…

Team Goemkarponn PORVORIM: The State government has mandated that all of its departments and educational establishments respond in Konkani or Marathi whenever correspondence is received in those languages. In a circular, Director of Official Language Prashant Shirodkar informed the department heads that, in accordance with the Official Language Act of 1987, the Goan government designated December 19, 1987, as the date on which the Konkani language would become the official language for government responses to communications received in Konkani, while Marathi would be used for replies. “In this regard, all the Heads of Departments/Offices/Directorates /Educational Institutions /Government Agencies/Autonomous Bodies/Companies and…

Team Goemkarponn MARGAO: South Goa Member of Parliament Capt. Viriato Fernandes urged the student community to understand trends taking place to divide people and defeat it to protect our unity in diversity. He was speaking after felicitating meritorious personalities from the field of education and sports by Citizens Welfare Society, Cuncolim on the occasion of national education day. Social worker Veolla Melisa Alemao, Principal of CES College Dr. Avinash Raikar, Tilroy Fernandes and others were present. “Our country has a unique blend with religion, culture, regions and unity in diversity. But there were attempts to divide society. Some fall to…

Team Goemkarponn OLD GOA: About 1,500 police officers will be sent to Old Goa for the decennial Exposition of the Relics of St. Francis Xavier, which is scheduled to take place from November 21 to January 5, 2025, according to Director General of Police (DGP) Alok Kumar on Monday. Goa police would oversee the security arrangements for the Exposition, according to Kumar, who presided over a conference to assess them. He also stated that there is no need for more police officers from outside the state. “We talked about the deployment of local police, the security unit, and the traffic,”…