Morning News Round-up:
· Govt may scrap 1% inter-state tax to move closer to GST
· Ola, Didi Kuaidi, Lyft, GrabTaxi enter into a partnership to counter Uber’s reach
· Forget ‘smart’ new cities; fix old ones
· Jaitley launches Modi govt’s Accessible India initiative
· Sanjiv Ahuja leads race to buy RCom towers
· StanChart CEO admits to mistakes in lending
· Defence up in arms against 7th pay panel proposals
· Global private equity funds Blackstone, Carlyle, Barings Asia in race to buy Reliance Cement
· Citigroup Pnote sells 61 lakh Havells India shares worth Rs 178cr
· Telcos ask Trai to check Ringo license, raise security concerns
· Vodafone invests Rs 500 crore in six months on network in Delhi
· TPG Capital backed Sanjiv Ahuja leads race to buy Reliance Communications towers
· Mineral-rich states expected to auction up to 70 mines this fiscal
· India third-largest market for spirit giant Pernod Ricard, sales cross Rs 10,000 crores
· SKS Microfinance raises loan ticket size
· Government asks companies to display MRP of farm machines excluding taxes
· CIL to pump in Rs 57K cr to ramp up output to 908 MT
· Govt to relax approval system for food products: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
· Montblanc partners Titan for India re-entry, to open 5 outlets
· Telenor upgrades 2500 sites across 6 circles to improve data, voice services
· LED bulbs distribution to start in Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Karantaka, Jharkhand
· Union Budget 2016 may give boost to cashless transactions
· ECB disappoints markets with bare-minimum easing package
· Losses from Chennai’s rains of the century pegged at Rs15,000 crore
· Ownership question trips small finance bank licencees
· 1 rupee call drop fine may cost telecom firms $8 billion
· Bharat Forge, Musashi said to consider bids for Amtek Auto’s German arm
· Haven’t used defeat device in India: Volkswagen
· Reliance Jio: a worry for both competitors, RIL shareholders
· Flipkart buys stake in MapmyIndia to improve delivery operations
· Flipkart reports a loss of Rs2,000 crore in FY15
· BSNL FY15 operating revenue up 4.16% to Rs27,242 crore
· Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence applies for additional 16 industrial licenses
· Chennai floods: PM releases ₹1,000 cr from disaster fund
· Services sector hits 5-month low of 50.1 in November: HSBC PMI index
· Quikr acquires real-estate analytics platform realtycompass
· After Yellen’s teaser comes Draghi the easer
· Buyout of Zylog’s polypropylene business will propel LyondellBasell to the third spot in India
· After Ramdev, Baidyanath Group chants the FMCG ‘Mantra’
· Mahindra conducts raids of counterfeit spare parts in Hyderabad
· Production at Royal Enfield’s Chennai plant hit by floods
· Rains hit industrial activity in Chennai
· Non-disclosure of foreign assets could turn risky for taxpayers: Jayant Sinha
· 4 more states may invite tenders for mineral block auctions
· New policy for steel sector
· Credit goes to the farmer that production has been going up, says Food Processing Minister
· 2.7 million trucks face red light
· RIL-ONGC row: Determined to act, govt studying D&M report
· Auto plants stare at 5-day output loss
· NITI Aayog to discuss ways to promote innovation
· Moving out of equities will hurt EPFO investors
