Today’s Business Headlines-9th March 2017-Tentaran.com

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Economic Times

• Modi govt to pay rent for poor in 100 cities via Rs 2,700 crores scheme

• With fears of layoffs engulfing startups, headhunters witness spike in resumes on hiring platforms

• Societe Generale’s tech arm wants to work with Indian startups

• Salman Khan ventures into smartphones business with ‘BeingSmart’, selects plant, models

• Abolish tax on sanitary napkins on Women’s Day: Congress to FM Arun Jaitley

Business Standard

• I-T dept lifts freeze on Cairn Energy payout, but bar on stake sale stays

• Now, Centre makes Aadhaar mandatory for crop insurance schemes

• Pricing power returns for paper makers on costlier imports

• Centre plans to hold franchise auctions for expressways

• PE investments in logistics at $500 million in 2016-17

• AAP presents Delhi Budget with eye on municipal polls

• Steel exports shoot up 150% in February, imports decline 46%

• Paytm will now levy 2% fee when you top it up using your credit cards

Mint

• Tata Motors, VW in pact to explore collaboration

• Qatar Airways says will start airline in India

• Canadian pension funds buy 1.5% stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank

• D-Mart IPO subscribed 1.36 times on Day One

Start-up World

• Flipkart looking to raise $1 billion in latest funding round: Source

• Warburg Pincus-backed Ecom Express said to raise $150 mn

• Investors bullish on deep technology start-ups

• Smaller VC firms ride on Sidbi and local investors

• Parentune.com raises funds from Kae, Segnel

• Sistema Asia fund to invest up to Rs 80 crore in four Indian startups

• Japanese investors look to bet their money on Indian startups