08:58 AM EDT, 03/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Flipkart's response in the fourth paragraph.) Amazon.com ( AMZN ) and Walmart's ( WMT ) Flipkart were found to have violated product quality rules in India by storing, selling and exhibiting products without the required standards certificate, Reuters reported Thursday, citing an Indian government statement. The Bureau of Indian Standards on...

08:57 AM EDT, 03/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Canadian retail sales froze at the start of the year, as activity began to normalize following a surge in December that owed to the start of the GST holiday, said CIBC. Friday's retail sales posted a 0.6% month-over-month decline in January, which was two ticks worse than the advance estimate, but that followed...

(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co ( JPM ) said its asset management unit has left a flagship industry climate effort, a blow to the group that had paused operations in January in an effort to halt defections. A statement sent by a representative of the unit known as JPMAM noted the pause by the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative...

* More women turn to sand mining after drought, floods * Work is back-breaking and pay meagre * Sand mining contributes to land degradation By Charles Pensulo SALIMA/CHIKWAWA, Malawi, March 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I t's only 9 a.m. and Zainunda Wilson is already tired from shovelling sand since daybreak into a five-tonne truck on the shores of Lake...