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I spent 2.5 hours in traffic yesterday, trying to get back home from a meeting. And I am one of the lucky ones, as my office is only half an hour from my home and I usually set up my meetings in the middle of the day, so spending time is traffic is not a big problem. In the Uber, I tried to keep myself busy, reading emails, catching a nap, thinking about this editorial. And I glanced around at those driving around me, stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, just trying to get back home. And then there are those who work from home (May their tribe increase!). What is it really like to work from home? Yes, it's a real thing. Here are 6 uncommon lessons from a year of working from home.

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Morgan Stanley is said to be looking at raising around $600-700 million in total for the India infrastructure fund

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Carlyle Group’s Asia fund looks at distressed asset deals in India

Private equity firm Carlyle Group said to scout for bargains in corporate insolvency space

Maharashtra's 2025 agenda: Why state's $1 trillion GDP target could make it India's growth engine

Aiming at a GDP of $1 trn, the state is likely to be India’s growth engine for the next half a decade. If the CM’s agenda goes as planned, Maharashtra will account for 20% of India’s GDP in 2025. The state contributes about 15% of the GDP at present.

Mutual fund investments in debt securities lowest in 5 years

Mutual funds pulled out ₹ 14,085.55 crore from debt securities in May 2018, as compared to mutual fund inflows of ₹ 20,164.82 crore in April and ₹ 9,514.37 crore in May 2017

For Indian banking sector, let a hundred CEOs bloom

But where will the CEOs come from? Does the public sector banking industry have enough talent to fill in the positions?

India seeks $2.4 billion funding from AIIB

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will also invest $200 million in India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), says economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg

Small farmers can be growth engines, not just beneficiaries: Rodger Voorhies

India has a long way to go in formulating policies for the uplift of small and marginal as well as landless farmers, says Rodger Voorhies of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bain Capital looks to step up distress game, plans new India team

To look after the investments, Bain is setting up a dedicated India team and started the hiring process, said one of the persons cited above.

Prabhu sets out to woo superfunds from Australia

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India-UK ties:Starting Fintech to the Finish

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Piyush Goyal credits Arun Jaitley for NPA clean-up; says banks poised for growth now

"Our banking system is now poised for very good times ahead," he told reporters on the eve of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)'s maiden annual summit being held here, when asked about the two meetings he had with bankers on dud loans resolution.

Narendra Modi credits states for successful GST implementation

27 meetings in the run-up to GST rollout on 1 July 2017 saw representation from different states but they all took decisions in GST Council with ‘absolute’ consensus, says Narendra Modi in his Mann ki Baat address

PE-backed IPOs outperform non-PE backed issues: EY India

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India, Seychelles set to bolster economic, strategic relations

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold talks with Seychelles President Danny Faure in New Delhi on Monday

The absence of trade finance threatens global trade

While there has been no improvement in either overall trade volumes or values, costs have gone up for emerging and poor economies due to shrinking trade finance

A peek into the robotized economic future

It is highly likely that job augmentation will overwhelm job destruction, enhancing consumption demand and leading to a boom

The end of the rules-based global order

With trade and immigration more inward-focused and diplomacy becoming more unpredictable, the world is heading towards uncharted territory

Countering India’s labour market imbalances

India is dealing with slow job creation in some sectors and shortage of skills in others. These imbalances need to be checked

GSTN developing tools for tax authorities to analyse data to check tax evasion

GST Network is working on data analytics and improving user interface on its portal, besides developing backend system for assessment and audit, says CEO Prakash Kumar

Varroc Engg IPO opens on June 26: Key things to know about it

The price band of the offer has been set between Rs 965-967 with a face value of Re 1.

Should India's Insurance Behemoth Be Welcomed Into Banking?

Could a potential deal between LIC and IDBI Bank put policy holders at risk and raise financial stability concerns?

Bankers, the frontline warriors in India's coming fintech revolution

A number of senior bankers, armed with intimate understanding of strengths and weaknesses of traditional banking, are breaking new ground in fintech.

ICICI reveals a whistleblower complaint over loans

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Can the Indian economy really achieve double digit growth?

PM Narendra Modi has twice in the last week vowed to take India’s growth rate past 10%, but experts say many hurdles remain

US investors seek Chanda Kochhar’s ouster from ICICI Bank

US investors aren’t confident of an insider getting appointed as ICICI Bank CEO, as they believe only an outsider can change the company’s culture, says a Macquarie Research report

RIL-JM Financial to take over Alok Industries as lenders settle for 83% haircut

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Mumbai officials confiscate 591kg of plastic on Day 2 of ban, collect Rs 3.5 lakh in fines

BMC intensified its crackdown on retailers in Mumbai who have been using plastic items despite the statewide ban imposed by Maharashtra on Saturday.

How Amazon is winning the online retail game. Again.

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Neeru's launches 50th store in Hyderabad

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E-tailers focusing on AI, virtual reality to cut logistics cost and fraudulent orders

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Google turns ambitious in India: Eyes solo e-commerce play by Diwali

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Aahaa Stores raises $2 million from UAE's Calega

The startup plans to utilise the money to upgrade its technology, expand business across new verticals and geographies.

Reliance takes its first big step into ecommerce- an app for millions of shopkeepers

The app, being trialled in 5,000 stores in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, will be taken nationwide later this year and will help integrate kirana merchants into the ecommerce ecosystem

Nafed aims to build real estate through retail chain: Source

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Tata Group lines up re-entry into white goods market with Rs 1000-crore push

The Tatas plan to invest Rs 1,000 crore in the business and hope to corner 10 per cent of market share by 2025.

Flipkart eyeing 65% growth in online fashion retail in 2018-19

Flipkart has undertaken a rebranding exercise as part of a broader strategy to stand out as a premier online fashion destination and help differentiate itself from other e-commerce firms

Logistics solutions provider Locus targets two million orders a day by 2019

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Chai Point to invest 12 cr to open 30 stores this fiscal year

Opens its 100th store in Bengaluru

Customer experience revamped in the retail sector

Technology is the front-runner in driving consumer engagement and experience in retail.

E-commerce firms cash in on FIFA frenzy in India

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The revenue from e-commerce amounted to $25 billion in India in 2017, and is likely to grow by 20.2 per cent per year, says a report.

Number of online shoppers to surpass 120 million in 2018

India's base is still quite low, there is a huge scope for growth. With more improvement in logistics, online shopping is bound to grow here.

Beer prices in Gurugram to rise by up to 44%

With supply on credit drying up, retailers who have paid big money for licences, do not have the size of cash flows needed to buy beer in cash and stock their vends, resulting in the shortage.

TV sales up during FIFA WC 2018, but here is what is different from previous editions

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Ikea bets big on India but keeps meatballs off the menu

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Tata Starbucks to open more than 25 stores in FY19, mulls launch of new units in Tier-II cities

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Garment shipments from Bangladesh to its major Asian markets—India, China and Japan—are rising by the day thanks to competitive

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