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The latest leadership stories from the Women desk.

The ₹1,500 Gamble — How India's Women Are Building Empires Against All Odds

In 2006, a young law student at Panjab University was advised by a senior legal practitioner to get into intellectual property — then a niche, barely explored field in India. She took that advice, started a company with ₹1,500 in savings and her mother's ₹1 lakh cheque. Today, her firm, TT Consultants, has 500 engineers and lawyers across offices in India, Washington DC, San Francisco, Tokyo and Germany. This is not an exception. It is a pattern. And it is happening across India — in villages, small towns, and metro cities.

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Leading with Purpose: The Story of a Woman Who Redefined Leadership

In a world where leadership has long been defined by authority and hierarchy, a new generation of women leaders is rewriting the narrative — leading not just with power, but with purpose, empathy, and vision.

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Delhi's First All-Women Police Station: A Long-Overdue Step for Women's Safety

Delhi has ranked first in crimes against women for years but lacked even one women's police station. That changed on June 19, 2026, when the capital inaugurated its first all-women police station. The question now is whether this long-overdue step can transform how the city's women access justice.

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Women-Only Founding Teams Still Receive Just About 2.3% Of Total Funding, Compared With Nearly 23% For Mixed-Gender Teams.

Women are launching startups across India at unprecedented rates, yet women-only founding teams still receive just 2.3% of venture funding, highlighting one of the biggest gaps in the country's innovation economy.

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Automated Intelligence: How Komal Talwar’s XLSCOUT Redefines Global Patent Frameworks

Intellectual property pioneer Komal Talwar is fundamentally reshaping the global R&D landscape through XLSCOUT, an integrated, AI-driven patent monetization and analysis platform. Managing an extensive database of more than 170 million patents across 100-plus countries, the platform leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate tedious prior-art searches and patent drafting processes. By compressing traditional manual research timelines by over 45%, this deep-tech innovation gives corporate enterprises, law firms, and research institutions a highly secure, automated pathway to maximize the commercial value of their intellectual assets.

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From an “Unplanned” Newspaper Ad to the C-Suite: How Blue Dart’s Sonia Nair Is Building India’s First Women-Run Logistics Hubs and Rewriting the Rules of Leadership

Sonia Nair’s journey increasingly reflects broader conversations around women leadership, workplace representation and changing assumptions inside traditional industries.