- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
Amazon said Thursday (12) it has withdrawn doormats featuring Indian flag from sale after New Delhi called them “insulting” and threatened to expel the company’s foreign workers. Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted late Wednesday (11) that the mats, available only on Amazon’s Canadian site, were an “unacceptable” insult to the national flag and demanded an apology. On Thursday (12) the company said it had responded by removing them from sale. “We have removed the products from the website following the Indian demand,” said a company spokeswoman who asked not to be named. Swaraj, an avid tweeter with nearly seven…
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