Economic Times
Ø  L&T bags two more orders from Saudi Aramco
Ø  GST Council to meet officials from six key sectors tomorrow
Ø  Small auto firms overtake big companies in growth in December
Ø  BCCI in a fix over senior vice president
Ø  Dena Bank cuts lending rate by 0.75 per cent
Ø  SBI sees loan growth jumping from 25-year low
Ø  Hero MotoCorp sales down 34% in December
Ø  Bharti Airtel in talks with Telenor to buy India business for $350 million: ET Now
Ø  Govt directive on service charge will lead to confusion: Hospitality associations
Ø  Telecom subscriber base touches 1074 mn at Sept-end: TRAI
Ø  Volkswagen India sales up 69% in December
Ø  Bank of Baroda ties up with CNX Corporation

Business Line
Ø  Mahindra sales down 4% at 36,363 units in Dec
Ø  LimeRoad introduces 24-hour payments for vendors
Ø  Tata Motors sales up 2% at 40,944 units in Dec
Ø  Exide expects demonetisation to recharge battery sector
Ø  Logistics firm Delhivery’s losses increase four-fold
Ø  Cash crunch hits auto sales in Dec
Ø  Bajaj Hindusthan to seek shareholders’ nod to sell power biz
Ø  Singareni sees increased coal output in December
Ø  Natco Pharma unveils generic version of Hepatitis C drug in Nepal
Ø  Insecticides India ties up with Japanese firm Nihon Nohyaku
Ø  IL&FS Engg gets LoA for road contract in Karnataka
Ø  Lupin gets USFDA nod for cevimeline hydrochloride capsules
Ø  NRIs need to show old notes at Customs at airport

Mint
Ø  Service charge not mandatory at restaurants and hotels: govt
Ø  GST delayed, rollout now likely on 1 June
Ø  Gap between India’s share in world GDP and world market cap at highest in 13 years
Ø  ICICI Bank joins SBI, others in cutting lending rate
Ø  SC sacks BCCI president Anurag Thakur, to form administrative panel
Ø  Vishal Sikka tells Infosys employees road ahead not easy
Ø  Azim Premji tells Wipro staff 2016 has raised obstacles on path to better world
Ø  Everstone buys minority stake in OmniActive Health for $35 million

Business Standard
Ø  Manufacturing slips into contraction in Dec but core sectors grow in Nov
Ø  Bigger disruption from automation, digitisation than Trump, note ban: Sikka
Ø  Air India to add 35 new planes this year, says Ashwani Lohani
Ø  Interest rate on small savings schemes unchanged for January-March
Ø  Amazon taps individual sellers; joins Olx, Quikr
Ø  Ford India sales surge over 2-fold to 23,470 units in December