Business Standard

Ø  Rural income adversely affected due to natural calamities: Govt

Ø  Professionals may get licence to set up banks

Ø  Lok Sabha passes Bankruptcy Bill, to help in ease of doing biz 

Ø  Port-based 29 industrial projects to boost exports by $ 110 bn

Ø  ITC shuts plants to comply with new pictorial warnings rule for cigarette packets 

Ø  '100% FDI allowed in online retail under new rules'

Ø  PE inflows drop 51% to $2.4 bn in Jan-March: Report



Ø  Big firms left out of on-tap bank licence

Ø  MMTC gets Rs 724 cr commission from NINL since 2001-02

Ø  Pay Rs 2,500 cr to Daiichi for hiding facts, court orders former Ranbaxy promoters

Ø  India intends to confiscate overseas assets of wilful defaulters

Ø  New Development Bank inks deal with ICICI Bank for business partnership

Ø  Illegal cigarette trade burning holes of Rs 24 bn in Pakistan's pocket

Business Line

Ø  Investment in renewable energy totalled ₹86,000 crore in last three years: Goyal

Ø  Lenders to revalue Kingfisher House; hope to sell it shortly

Ø  MCB India Sovereign Bond ETF launched in Mauritius SE

Ø  Camlin Fine Sciences buys 65 per cent stake in Mexican firm 

Ø  Maharashtra sugarcane output to fall 40% as dry conditions prevail

Mint

Ø  No plan to tax agricultural income: Arun Jaitley

Ø  Sahara case: Sebi opposes Subrata Roy release

Ø  NTPC warns BSES of cut in power supply from 10 May

Ø  China’s Dalian Wanda Group looks to buy multiplexes in India

Ø  Cabinet gives flexibility on coal supply to power plants

Ø  Airtel to divest 950 towers in Congo to reduce debt

Financial Express               

Ø  Sensex settles 160 points up, Nifty ends at 7,735;

Ø  Buyers to pay 1 per cent tax on vehicles costing over Rs 10 lakh

Ø  'Cairn can't export crude till India attains self sufficiency

Ø  US jobless claims post largest rise in more than a year

Ø  UK talking 'intensively' with Tata Steel: David Cameron



Financial Chronicle

Ø  Apple loses trademark lawsuit over 'iPhone' name in China

Ø  India can grow faster if there is good monsoon: Jaitley

Ø  EU-India could explore ‘less ambitious’ FTA: top MEP

Ø  Waive off loans of drought-hit farmers, asks opposition

Ø  Equipment exchange finance platform by Srei Finance