Rajni Bector, now 86 and the oldest woman on the 2026 Hurun India Women Leaders List, turned a ₹20,000 backyard ice-cream venture into Mrs. Bector's Food Specialities and the Cremica Group, a publicly listed food business now valued in the thousands of crores.
Vaishali Nigam Sinha left a finance career on Wall Street and in London to co-found ReNew in 2011, building it into India's second-largest renewable energy company and, in 2025, becoming the first private-sector leader elected president of the UN Global Compact Network India.
Five years after succeeding her father as Chairperson of HCLTech, Roshni Nadar Malhotra has become India's richest woman and its most closely watched technology executive, now tasked with steering a $14.7 billion IT services giant through the industry's most disruptive shift since offshoring itself.
Indian equities enter the week of August 10–14, 2026 testing a key technical hurdle at the Nifty's 200-day moving average, with a packed earnings calendar from M&M, Mphasis, LTIMindtree and Canara Bank set to determine whether the recent rally broadens or stalls.
The Nifty 50 gained 187 points over the week of August 3–7, 2026, its second consecutive weekly advance, as the RBI's rate hold, a PSU banking rally and NSE's new Closing Auction Session shaped a volatile but ultimately constructive week for Indian equities.
Shafaq Mandha, a Gujarat-origin computer systems engineering graduate from Middlesex University Dubai, has been selected for ORBITA-26, an international satellite mission that will send her to Moscow to represent the UAE at the project's launch.
Nottingham Trent University has marked the graduation of almost 250 Indian students from its 2025/26 cohort, reinforcing the UK institution's standing as a leading destination for Indian talent amid a competitive global market for international education.
Travel-tech company ixigo reported record quarterly profit of Rs 34.24 crore, up 81% year-on-year, as its bus and flights businesses drove record gross transaction value despite airfare pressure from West Asian conflict.
Logistics major Delhivery posted 28% revenue growth to Rs 2,931 crore in the June quarter, even as net profit fell 65% due to integration costs from its Ecom Express acquisition and election-related labour disruption.
E-commerce enablement platform Shiprocket has cut its IPO size by nearly a third to Rs 1,617 crore ahead of its August 12 listing, even as FY26 revenue grew 24% to cross Rs 2,000 crore.