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Today's Headlines from :

*Economic Times*

📝 Centre cuts windfall tax on petroleum crude, diesel

📝 Centre issues Covid advisory to states after detection of first case of JN.1 variant in India

📝 Suraj Estate Developers IPO booked 71% on Day 1; retail category fully booked

📝 India's sugar production till December 15 trails by 10.7%

📝 Net direct tax collection swells 21 pc to Rs 13.70 lakh cr in FY24

📝 UK’s carbon tax may impact $775 mn worth of Indian goods

📝 India, ADB ink pacts for $500-mln loans to bolster infra sector

📝 CPSE purchases via GeM portal hit Rs 1.37 lakh crore, beat entire FY23 level: Finmin

📝 PE fund InvAscent puts $10 million in health-tech SaaS firm ABI Health Technologies

📝 Cloud kitchen startup Curefoods invests Rs 10 crore in food discovery platform Hogr

📝 EV financing platform Finayo secures Rs 16 crore funding

*Business Standard*

📝 Software firm Ebix files bankruptcy after short-seller attacks, debt woes

📝 Storied US Steel to be acquired for more than $14 billion by Nippon Steel

📝 CRISIL downgrades Edelweiss Financial Services' long-term rating to 'A+'

📝 India KFC operator Devyani International enters Thailand with $129 mn deal

📝 Jai Balaji raises Rs 559 cr from Tata Capital FinServ to refinance debt

📝 Nirma Ltd to raise upto Rs 3,500 cr for business growth, acquisition

📝 Ambuja Cements to set up renewable energy unit for Rs 6,000 crore

📝 Sun Pharma to acquire 16.7% stake in Lyndra Therapeutics for $30 mn

📝 Centre says likely to achieve fiscal deficit target of 5.9% of GDP in FY24

*Financial Express*

📝 Top IT firms bag large deals showcasing flagship solutions this year

📝 Vedanta board nod to Rupees 4,089-crore second interim dividend

📝 Govt to launch 9th round of commercial coal mine auction on Wed; 26 mines on the block

📝 NBCC sells 2.23 lakh sq ft commercial space for Rs 905 cr in Delhi’s World Trade Centre

📝 Over 7.40 crore persons filed ITRs in FY23, 5.16 crore showed zero tax liability: FinMin

📝 Govt may scale down capital infusion in OMCs

📝 Rupee falls 2 paise to close at 83.05 against US dollar

📝 Innova Captab’s Rs 570-cr IPO to open on Dec 21

*Mint*

📝 Happy Forgings raises ₹303 crore from 25 anchor investors ahead of IPO

📝 In a first, govt directs rice sector to cut domestic prices

📝 IndiGo becomes first Indian airline to carry 100 million passengers a year

📝 Adobe, Figma Scrap $20 Billion Acquisition

📝 IBM to buy Software AG's enterprise integration platforms for $2.3 bn to bolster AI, hybrid cloud biz

📝 Crisil downgrades Bandhan Bank's NCDs on poor asset quality.