Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Current Affairs on 18.12.2018

Today's Headlines from www:

*Economic Times*

πŸ“ Sebi lays down more robust risk management framework for equity derivatives

πŸ“ D.light raises US$41 million to finance its solar and appliance business

πŸ“ NHAI to miss its target by 33-37% for the year: ICRA

πŸ“ Free pharma samples come under GST lens

πŸ“ E-commerce share in India's FMCG retail sales triples in 2 years: Nielsen

πŸ“ Bank of Baroda to shut three African branches by June

πŸ“ 5G spectrum auction in August 2019

*Business Standard*

πŸ“ Govt confident of crossing disinvestment target, hopes to garner Rs 850 bn

πŸ“ 'Freight blocks' are the next growth engine for Indian Railways

πŸ“ NBFCs stare at valuation hurdle, IPOs in pipeline may see tepid interest

πŸ“ Cement companies on a capacity expansion spree; price rise uncertain

πŸ“ Croma gets more social with brand, focuses on driving consumers to stores

πŸ“ Fossil Group expands range of smart watches, launches 7 products in India

πŸ“ IAF goes green, plans to fly biofuel-powered An-32 transport aircraft

*Financial Express*

πŸ“ Government total liabilities rose to Rs 82.03 lakh crore in September quarter

πŸ“ ISRO all set to launch GSAT-7A onboard GSLV-F11 on December 19

πŸ“ Centre seeks RBI inputs for merger of public sector banks

πŸ“ Max India promoters decide not to convert warrants into shares

πŸ“ Google plans $1 billion office in New York, after Apple’s mega campus in Texas

πŸ“ Commerce and industry ministry working on new e-commerce policy

πŸ“ Industrial growth to leverage steel industry

*Mint*

πŸ“ Govt to amend laws to allow banks, telecom firms to use Aadhaar

πŸ“ Byju’s gets $540 million in funding at $3.6 billion valuation

πŸ“ StanChart sells PE portfolio for $1 bn to Intermediate’s arm

πŸ“ Quikr acquires real-estate platform India Property

πŸ“ IL&FS puts road assets on the block

πŸ“ Boeing buying stake in Embraer operations for $4.2 billion

πŸ“ ABB sells power grids to Hitachi in $11 billion deal.

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