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Sec/Coat/068/FY 2026-27 Date: 29.10.2026 The Secretary The Manager BSE Limited National Stock Exchange of India Limited New Trading Wing, Exchange Plaza, C-1, Block “G” Rotunda Building, 5th floor, Bandra Kurla Complex, PJ Tower, Dalal Street, Bandra East, Mumbai- 400001 Mumbai- 400051 Scrip Code: 539046 Symbol: MANAKCOAT Dear Madam/Sir, Sub: Newspaper publication of financial results under Regulation 47 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. With reference to the captioned subject, we would like to inform you that in accordance with Regulation 47 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, the Company has published in all editions of Business Standard (English) and Ekdin (Bengali) newspapers 29th October, 2026 its unaudited financial results for the half year and quarter ended 30th September, 2026. We are enclosing herewith a copy of each of the aforesaid newspaper Publication Thanking you, Yours faithfully, For Manaksia Coated Metals & Industries Limited Shruti Agarwal Company Secretary & Compliance Officer Membership No.: F12124 Encl: as above vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Sarvam bags 87% of funding for Indic AI firms in 2026 so far avikdas linguistic diversity, targeting Bengaluru,28October sectorssuchasdefence,health- care,andeducation.AndGan Frontier model company AIwillcreatea70billionpar- Sarvambaggedalmost90per ameter multilingual founda- cent of the total funding tion model targeting receivedbythecountry’sstar- text-to-speechcapabilities. tupsbuildingartificialintelli- Sarvam, backed by gence(AI)forIndia’slanguages HCLTech and Nvidia, is in2026,accordingtoareportby expected to launch a trillion data-intelligencefirmTracxn. parametermodelinthenext Sarvam,whichreceivedtwo sixmonths,asignificantleap roundsoffundingof$255mil- from its existing billion par- lionand$90millionearlierthis ametermodels. year,thusaccountedfor$345 The report covers 34 million,or87percent,ofthe ofrealIndiancallcentreaudio “Theshutdownturnedan companies,whicharedivided $399millionraisedbyIndicAI —closeda$4.2millionfunding abstractargumentaboutfor- intotwocategories:languageas companies.ExcludingSarvam, roundinJuly. eignAIdependencyintoacon- aproductandlanguageasa theothercompaniesraised$54 Thereportsaysfundingfor creteone:frontieraccesscould differentiator. million across seven rounds, sovereignAImodelsreceiveda berevokedbyaforeigngovern- Two developments, the upfrom$23millionacrossnine boostastheUSgovernmenton ment’sorder,withoutwarning, reportexplains,willshapethe roundslastyear. June 12 this year issued an althoughaccesswasrestored. nextphaseofgrowth.Global BetweenOctober2021and export-control order against Sarvam, one of the govern- model providers are moving 2026,companiesoftheIndicAI Anthropic’sFable5andMythos ment’s own four sovereign directly into the language ecosystemraisedacumulative 5modelsdaysaftertheirpublic modelpicks,raisedtwiceinthe gap these companies were $657millionacross56rounds. launchandsuspendedaccess eightweeksthatfollowed(the formedtoaddress.Theproduct Thefundingstyleshowsinves- toboth.Thatraisedquestions US government action),” the tier competes most directly torsgravitatingtowardsaselect ofAIsovereigntyandwhether reportadded. withthatpush,whilethediffer- few companies that they USfrontiermodelcompanies BesidesSarvamandGnani, entiator tier — whose value believehavethepotentialto werebecomingtoobigatoolin SoketwilldevelopIndia’sfirst rests on enterprise workflow score big. Besides Sarvam, thehandsoftheDonaldTrump open-source 120 billion par- andcustomerrelationships— GnaniAI—whosespeechrec- administrationtowieldundue ameterfoundationmodelopti- may be less exposed to that ognitionistrainedonadecade influence. mised for the country's competition. Meesho’s loss shrinks 68% in Q2 PhysicsWallah’s startupwing peerzadaabrar Q2lastyeartothirdquarterthis partnerswith Bengaluru,28October year, aligning the periods of StartupIndia seasonal demand, including SoftBank-backed Indian thesale,acrossbothyears. ecommerce marketplace Consumer engagement PhysicsWallah School of Meesho on Wednesday alsostrengthened,withannual Startups (PW SoS), the reporteda68percentyear-on- purchasefrequencyreaching entrepreneurship wing of year(Y-o-Y)declineinitsnet 10.4transactionsperuser. education company Phy- loss to ~132.4 crore in the Annual transacting users sicsWallah,hasenteredinto second quarter of 2026-27 previousquarter. ontheplatformincreased21 a strategic collaboration (Q2FY27), compared with Orders placed rose 17 per percentY-o-Yto284million. withStartupIndia,Depart- ~411.4croreinthecorrespond- centY-o-Yto819million,while First-timebuyersgrew16per ment for Promotion of ingperiodayearearlier.The netmerchandisevalue(NMV) centquarter-on-quarter(Q-o- IndustryandInternalTrade companyhadreportedanet grew23percentto~12,911crore. Q),whileannualtransacting (DPIIT), Ministry of Com- lossof~132.8croreinthepre- MeeshosaidNMVgrew33 sellersrose60percentY-o-Yto merceandIndustry. viousquarter,accordingtoan percentY-o-Yonacomparable 1.13million,thecompanysaid. The two-year partner- exchangefiling. basisoverthe90dayspreced- Meesho’s total expenses ship aims to accelerate TheBengaluru-basedcom- ingDussehra,reflectingunder- rose 24 per cent to ~4,382.3 grassroots entrepreneur- pany reported revenue from lying consumer demand croreinthequarterendedSep- ship,deep-techinnovation operationsof~4,131.6crore,up acrossfestivalperiods. tember, compared with and venture incubation 34percentY-o-Yfrom~3,073.7 Thecompanysaidthecom- ~3,540.4croreayearearlierand across Tier-II and Tier-III croreayearearlier.Revenue parisonaccountsfortheshiftof ~3,959.2 crore in the citiesandruralpartsofthe stoodat~3,712.8croreinthe itsMegaBlockbusterSalefrom previousquarter. country. udishasrivastav bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv B TECHNOLOGY 3 KOLKATA | THURSDAY,29OCTOBER2026 bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb Fund inflow nSarvamgot$345mnofthe $399mnoffunding receivedbyAIstartups nInlastfiveyears,IndicAI ecosystemfirmsraised $657mnac [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]