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With increase in number of complaints from people buying products online, the Consumer Affairs Ministry is proposing to frame guidelines for protection of consumers' interest in online shopping, according to PTI. The Department of Consumer Affairs has been receiving...

CapitaMalls Asia, one of Asia’s biggest listed shopping mall developers, organised a forum called Retail Global Connexion in Singapore on October 12. About a dozen prominent retailers from all over the world addressed the audiences, sharing their insights and...

ASTM International, together with Atlas Material Testing Solutions and DyStar, will hold a one-day conference on Textiles - Light and Weatherfastness, on January 21, 2011, in Mumbai, India. The conference`s topics of light and weather fastness were chosen to...

The Director General of Paris-based OIV, Dr. Federico Castellucci, recently announced to a group of international journalists in Verona that India had applied for the membership of the august body. This is one of the highlights in the development...

The Q3 2010 China Retail Report forecasts that the country's total retail sales will increase by 74 per cent in local currency terms by the end of the forecast period, growing from $2.09 trn in 2010 to a projected...

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said that no foreign direct investment (FDI) will be allowed in the retail sector, and the government is open to reviewing the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act if needed.He said that the...