From Nifty firms profit dip to quota Bill passage, here're top headlines

PM Modi had urged the GST Council to raise the threshold for exemption from the levy's registration, to Rs 75 lakh annual turnover

Drop in oil, metal prices likely to hurt Nifty50 companies' Q3 net profit

The decline in crude oil and metal prices is expected to result in a fall in net profit of companies in the Nifty50 index of the National Stock Exchange for the October-December 2018 period, after five quarters of growth.

The combined net profit of the Nifty50 companies is estimated to fall by 3.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to around Rs 85,000 crore, their worst show in seven quarters. Read on 

PM Modi talks of liberalising GST, easy MSME credit at Agra meeting

A day ahead of a meeting of