India must stop regulatory bias against Amazon and Flipkart-Walmart

Tilting rules against foreign e-commerce companies harms consumers

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Flipkart app on a mobile screen: New Delhi has misunderstood how e-commerce works. © NurPhoto/Getty Images

If India is trying to attract the world's biggest players into its e-commerce sector, it is going the wrong way about it.

In a controversial move, the government has instructed online retail giants Amazon and Walmart-Flipkart to furnish the details of their top five sellers and the kind of marketing arrangements they have entered into with them.

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