The High Court yesterday called for a four-member interim board to be formed at the earliest for assessing the liabilities of Evaly, in a development that can bring some solace to the thousands of aggrieved customers and vendors of the controversial e-commerce platform.

Another case was filed against the controversial e-commerce platform Eorange’s top brass in Chattogram over unfulfilled orders amounting to Tk 11 lakh.

The government will begin registering e-commerce and F-commerce firms within a month in a bid to restore discipline in the nascent industry and protect customers and merchants from unscrupulous business practices.

There might, after all, be no new law for the e-commerce sector, as per yesterday’s meeting of a high-powered committee formed by the government in light of the ongoing fraud in the sector.

Let’s GO Mart has started its operations as a new e-commerce platform as the company organised its commercial launch at The Daily Star Centre in Dhaka yesterday.

Eorange, Dhamaka Shopping and SPC World Express have laundered at least Tk 350 crore that they had received from customers in advance payment for goods, found the Criminal Investigation Department of police in its primary investigation.

The truth always comes out, and this is what the top brass of Eorange, one of the many Evaly imitations, has found out recently.

The first meeting of a high-powered committee formed to recommend an e-commerce policy is going to be held tomorrow at the commerce ministry.

The commerce ministry should form a special panel to immediately recover the money that got stuck because of Evaly, a group of the merchants and consumers of the e-commerce platform said yesterday.

Evaly owes at least Tk 408 crore to 1,026 sellers, according to its own data obtained by The Daily Star.

bKash, a mobile financial service provider in the country, has reduced its "cash out" charge to make customer transactions more affordable.

Dhamaka Shopping came to the market with a singular plan: take hold of as much cash as possible from unsuspecting customers by offering them dizzying discounts for deferred delivery and run for safety as soon as a certain amount had accrued.

The  e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-Cab) has temporarily suspended  the membership of four e-commerce platforms: Evaly, Dhamaka Shopping,  Sirajganj Shop, and Glitters RST World.

The e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-Cab) has temporarily suspended the membership of four e-commerce platforms: Evaly, Dhamaka Shopping, Sirajganj Shop and Glitter's RST World.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know how tax is collected from e-commerce platforms and what steps have been taken into the allegation of money laundering by the companies.

With owners of digital commerce companies Evaly and E-orange behind bars and facing trials on allegations of embezzlement, the funds of thousands of customers have been stuck in the payment channels because of legal complexity.

It calls its hefty discount offers tornado, typhoon, kalbaishakhi (Nor’wester), conflagration and Tufan (hurricane) and sells mobile phones, flats, cars and whatnot.

There is no need to form a separate regulatory body for the e-commerce sector as the existing legal framework is sufficient to ensure discipline, said industry stakeholders yesterday.

There are ways for online shoppers to get back their money stuck with some e-commerce platforms under the existing laws. But they will have to abandon the hope of retrieving all of their funds, said a legal expert.

The commerce ministry will form a committee to make recommendations on the formulation of a law, authorised by which the ministry will introduce an e-commerce regulatory authority to safeguard interests of all parties involved.