INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
E-Commerce Policy: The government on Wednesday introduced changes to foreign direct investment rules.The government will announce a new
draft policy for e-commerce in a few weeks, a source in the government said on Thursday, a day after the country tweaked foreign investment
rules for the burgeoning sector.The new e-commerce policy could entail provisions for a regulator in the sector dominated by US tech giant
Amazon.com and homegrown Flipkart, which was bought over by retail giant Walmart for $16 billion earlier this year.The government on
Wednesday introduced changes to foreign direct investment rules, banning e-commerce players from selling products from entities in which
they have an equity interest, a move the source said was aimed at preventing anti-competitive practices
The source declined to be named as the matter was not public.
