Maharashtra is drafting amendments to its Bike-Taxi Rules that would require food-delivery and quick-commerce platforms to run EV-only fleets, add GPS tracking and insurance, and contribute 2% of every fare to a driver welfare fund — bringing gig-economy regulation to India's largest state economy for the first time.
Flipkart's quick-commerce arm Minutes has launched a gourmet grocery range spanning imported cheese, specialty coffee and artisanal chocolates, alongside its own private label Pykd, joining Blinkit's Gourmet and Zepto's upcoming Select in the race for higher-value quick-commerce baskets.
Hector Beverages, the maker of Paper Boat, grew FY26 revenue 13.8% to ₹760 crore, but profit collapsed 96% to just ₹2 crore as the company's growing reliance on lower-margin traded goods and rising costs outpaced its topline expansion.
Indian startups raised approximately $383.5 million across 25 disclosed deals in the week of August 3–8, a 4.7X jump from the previous week, led by River Mobility's $120 million Series C round from Elev8 and Claypond Capital.
Payments platform Easebuzz grew FY26 revenue 9.1% to ₹716 crore, but profit fell 42% to ₹11 crore as the government's real-money gaming ban and rising expenses squeezed margins at the Pune-based fintech firm.
Delhivery's Q1 FY27 revenue jumped 27.8% to ₹2,931 crore on strong express-parcel and PTL freight volumes, but a 65% collapse in net profit to ₹32 crore reveals how labour costs, election-linked disruptions and the Ecom Express integration are weighing on India's largest listed logistics company.
The 2026 Candere Hurun India Women Leaders List recognises 117 women worth a combined ₹39 lakh crore across 12 categories — and its most striking finding is that 84% of them, outnumbering inheritors five to one, built their influence independently.
Tushara Shankar, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Lupin and the Lupin Human Welfare and Research Foundation, tops the Social Change Makers category on the 2026 Hurun India Women Leaders List for CSR work spanning more than 5,000 Indian villages.
Sudha Murty, Founder-Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and India's most widely read living author in English and Kannada, tops the Authors category on the 2026 Hurun India Women Leaders List, recognising a career that spans engineering, philanthropy, literature and, since 2024, Parliament.
Meena Bindra founded BIBA from her Delhi home in 1988 with a bank loan of just ₹8,000; nearly four decades later, it is one of India's largest ethnic wear brands and Bindra tops the Indian Fashion and Lifestyle category on the 2026 Hurun India Women Leaders List.