Economic Times
Ø  Govt has no plan to hike captial gains tax: FM
Ø  Shortage of taxmen may derail black money hunt
Ø  Aadhaar-linked cashless merchant solution by IDFC
Ø Restrictions on withdrawals likely to continue
Ø  ONGC to pay over $1.2 billion for GSPC stake buy
Ø  SBI, other banks may cut lending rates in new year
Ø  Govt working on new power tariff structure

Business Standard
Ø  Budget to assume crude oil price of $55-60/bbl for FY18
Ø  RBI refuses to disclose minutes of demonetisation meeting
Ø  Money has lost its ‘anonymity’ after demonetisation: Jaitley
Ø  Tata Housing, Macquarie form Rs 2,000 cr fund
Ø  Apparel exports to cross $30 bn mark in next 3 years: AEPC
Ø  M&M to hike vehicle prices by up to Rs 26,500 from January
Ø  Public auditors’ body demand for more power to PAC, audit of FIs

Business Line
Ø  Prime Minister Modi hints at more reforms
Ø  Camlin Fine to acquire 51% stake in Chinese firm
Ø  Maruti to get 10,000 Balenos from Suzuki’s Gujarat plant this fiscal
Ø  PFRDA mulls various withdrawal options to optimise pension
Ø  Balrampur Chini gets green nod for Rs. 72-cr expansion project

Mint
Ø  China fines GM unit $29 million for ‘price-fixing’
Ø  RTOs set to go cashless from January 2017
Ø  How Deutsche Bank’s big bet on Wall Street turned toxic
Ø  Tata Steel to acquire Brahmani River Pellets for Rs900 crore
Ø  Welspun Enterprises to divest 15.49% in Welspun Energy
Ø  Wipro agrees to pay $5 million to SEC to settle six-year-old case

Financial Express
Ø  About 75% of targeted 60,000 officers trained for Goods and Services Tax
Ø  India may clock GVA growth of 6.6 per cent in 2016-17: Icra
Ø  PFRDA mulls various withdrawal options to optimise pension
Ø  Tilaiya UMPP: Panel seeks fresh comments from Ministry of Power, others

Financial Chronicle
Ø  Special session on GST likely if vexed issues are resolved
Ø  Sebi goes green; debt security papers via electronic mode
Ø  Cosolidated SME, corp data with banks to improve lending: CII
Ø  FPIs pull out $ 3.5b from capital markets in December
Ø  Equity MFs add 25 lakh investor accounts in Apr-Nov FY17