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India’s competition regulator has directed the country’s largest online travel firm
MakeMyTrip to relist the properties of two budget hotel chains, which it stopped listing in 2018 after signing an agreement with their rival Oyo. The court said clamping down on anti-competitive behaviour was especially important in “winner takes all” platform markets.
Also in today’s letter: Indian IT: Escaping the Exodus Paytm’s NUE plansMakeMyTrip told to relist properties of Oyo rivals
India’s competition regulator has directed MakeMyTrip to allow budget hotel chains
Treebo Hotels and
The Information TechnologyvRules, 2021 was notified in February, and the government has, for the first time, expanded the definition of digital media to include online news and put in place a three-tier grievance redressal system that will be overseen by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The regulatory mechanisms prescribed for digital news portals in the IT Intermediary Rules 2021, notified last month, are dealing with matters that are nowhere mentioned in the parent act the Information Technology Act, 2000, said The Foundation for Independent Journalism and others in their petition challenging the new rules. Hence the Rules are ultra […]