Amazon and Tata Motors on Tuesday announced a collaboration to deploy 3,000 electric trucks across Amazon’s transportation network in India, marking what the companies said would be the largest electric-truck deployment by an e-commerce company in the country.

The move marks Amazon’s most significant effort yet to extend fleet electrification beyond last-mile delivery.

Amazon said on Thursday it will take "appropriate action" against a third-party delivery partner in India once a police investigation ​into a fire that killed two workers concludes.

Amazon, one of ​India's largest e-commerce companies, has also initiated an independent internal investigation into ‌the incident.

Amazon’s chief executive officer Andy Jassy, who is currently on a visit to India, has announced an additional $13 billion investment in the country, taking the total investment in the country to $48 billion by 2030. The announcement came after Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Thursday.

Amazon is primarily relying on on-site charging infrastructure for its growing fleet of electric delivery vehicles in India, while also working with partners to expand charging and transportation options as it pushes towards its sustainability goals, a top company executive said.

The US-based e-commerce giant already has plans to introduce over 1,000 electric trucks into its operations in India over the next five years.

Amazon’s quick-commerce service Now is gaining traction in India, with orders rising about 25 per cent month on month, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said on the company’s latest earnings call, as the e-commerce group accelerates its push into the country’s fast-growing rapid-delivery market.

Amazon India said on Thursday it will invest more than Rs 2,800 crore ($300 million) to expand its logistics networks and improve workers’ safety and well-being.

The spending is part of the ecommerce company’s plans to invest more than $35 billion by 2030 on AI-led digitisation, exports and jobs.

Amazon Web Services Inc. suffered a disruption to its services after unidentified objects struck one of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates, causing a fire.

While it is unclear if the incident is related to the conflict between the US and Iran, the fire broke out on the same day Iranian projectiles struck the UAE in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials.

E-commerce giant Amazon on Monday announced the opening of a new office in Bengaluru, its second-largest in Asia. The company’s largest office space is in Nanakramguda, Hyderabad.

The Bengaluru office space, which spans 1.1 million square feet, is a 12-storey campus that can support over 7,000 employees across e-commerce, operations, payments, technology, and seller services in India.

The Supreme Court on Monday transferred to Karnataka High Court all cases alleging malpractices by e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart. The order came on a plea filed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which sought to consolidate all 24 cases pending across various high courts against Amazon and Flipkart.

During the hearing, a bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said if pleadings in some of the transferred petitions were not completed, the judge seized of the matter would grant reasonable time to complete the pleadings.

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition seeking quashing of an FIR against two individuals accused of defrauding e-commerce giant Amazon of over Rs 69 lakh.

Justice M Nagaprasanna described the case as an example of modern age crime.

The petitioners, Sourish Bose and Deepanvita Ghosh, had sought to have the FIR and a magistrate court's order taking cognisance of the case set aside.

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