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MFSL/SEC/EQ/2026/74 August 10, 2026 To, To, The Manager, General Manager BSE Limited National Stock Exchange of India Limited Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers Exchange Plaza Dalal Street Plot No. C/1, G Block Mumbai – 400001 Bandra-Kurla Complex Bandra (East) Mumbai – 400051 Scrip Code: 540749, 947381 Trading Symbol: MASFIN Dear Sir, Sub.: Newspaper Advertisement – Notice of 31st Annual General Meeting, Record Date and Remote E-Voting Information Pursuant to Regulation 30 and Regulation 47 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, the Company has given Newspaper Advertisement in One (1) English - FREE PRESS GUJARAT and One (1) Regional Language Newspaper - Gujarati - LOKMITRA on August 10, 2026 in respect of Notice of 31st Annual General Meeting of the Company alongwith the details of remote E-voting, Record date etc., made to the shareholders. The same has been made available on the Company's website i.e. https://mas.co.in/investors-corner/annual-reports/. 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Thanking you, Yours faithfully, For, MAS Financial Services Limited Riddhi Bhaveshbhai Bhayani Company Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer ACS No.: A41206 Encl: As above 10-08-2026 Monday Why India must write its own AI rulebook Zhipu’s founder, Jie Tang, put automatically censor content pitch is by far the easier sell. way” beyond the American and alignment, updated for the the pitch plainly: “Advanced AI embracing liberal norms such Which is exactly why the first Chinese models — AI age of the algorithm, is not should be open to anyone, not as the right to protest, cannot be India’s only reply. anchored in digital public fence-sitting — it is keeping the belong to a small group, or be regardless of where the model But abstention is not a infrastructure, the Aadhaar- pen. pulled back at will.” For a was deployed.” policy and-UPI template that has Fourth, use the BRICS finance ministry in Dakar or a This is where India’s And this is the already shown the developing chair; don’t apologise for it. start-up in Jakarta, that is not instinct to stay out looks less uncomfortable half of the world how to build population- Beijing is already working to propaganda. It is a price list. like timidity and more like calculus. Staying out keeps scale digital systems it actually thread WAICO’s standards The catch buried in the judgement. India clear of Chinese rule- owns. Narendra Modi’s into BRICS and the Shanghai gift A body whose founding making — but it also means framing — “AI for All,” artificial Cooperation Organisation — Yet a rulebook is never charter was signed for the rules get drafted without intelligence as “a medium to forums where India sits as a neutral, and this one least of Pakistan in Shanghai by its an Indian pen in the room. As enhance human values and full member — so New Delhi’s all. Deputy Prime Minister, Ishaq India prepares to chair the potential” — is precisely the task is twofold: block Standards are the quiet Dar, and convened to codify a BRICS summit in September, language a Global South consensus on restrictive infrastructure of power — state-centric model of it faces the awkward optics of audience wants to hear, minus Chinese mandates from within whoever sets them decides technological control is not an leading a grouping in which the surveillance-state and turn September’s summit what “safe”, “trusted”, and easy room for New Delhi to every other founding member undertow. from a trap into a microphone. “compliant” AI will mean for enter on someone else’s has already signed on to That is a genuine third India should walk into its own On July 16, in a Shanghai defining technology- meteorological early-warning the next generation, and terms. India’s former Beijing’s AI architecture. pole, and it is India’s to lose. gathering not defending an conference hall lit for a sovereignty question of the system, for some thirty whose systems clear the bar. Permanent Representative to To make it real, four moves absence but tabling an coronation, Xi Jinping stepped year for New Delhi: should nations. WAICO is the institutional the UN warned that WAICO The rhetorical high ground, are urgent. alternative — and inviting the on stage to do something the India join Beijing’s AI rulebook, The subtext was machinery to make those could end up defining the too, is being conceded. First, ship a rulebook, not very Global South Beijing is People’s Republic of China has actively counter it, or write one unmistakable. definitions permanent. “new global AI order”, and At the Shanghai gathering, a slogan. India should convert courting to help write it. seldom attempted seriously of its own? “China will not let America Beijing is already laying the that “India must be vigilant.” the UN Secretary-General, the Summit’s goodwill into a China has done India an before: not merely to build the The seduction is real monopolise AI technology,” pipework. Vigilance, here, began António Guterres, warned that standing Global South AI inadvertent favour. By moving world’s most-used artificial It is tempting to dismiss George Chen of The Asia Alongside WAICO, it with declining the invitation. “technology that will shape the compact — a lightweight, first and moving boldly, it has intelligence, but to write the WAICO as choreography — Group told Fortune, reading announced international AI Two rulebooks, opposite future of humanity must be treaty-adjacent body offering ended the era in which New rules that govern it. By the another Chinese acronym Xi’s remarks as a promise of cooperation centres linking foundations shaped by all humanity” — the shared standards for safety, Delhi could treat AI time the World Artificial destined for the graveyard of reliability to a Global South the new body to ASEAN, the The deeper reason New very language of inclusion data governance and content governance as a seminar Intelligence Conference grand initiatives. That would tired of being told what chips African Union, the Arab Delhi hesitates is that the two India has spent years making authenticity, built on open topic. The rulebook is being (WAIC) closed, twenty-nine be a mistake. Beijing has read and models it may not have. League, CELAC and the emerging rulebooks are built its own, now amplified from a protocols rather than a single written now, in Shanghai, countries had put their names the developing world’s The economics reinforce Shanghai Cooperation on incompatible foundations. stage Beijing built. vendor’s stack. Beijing has built with or without an Indian to a founding agreement grievance with precision, and the diplomacy. Organisation — the connective The Western-aligned An empty chair persuades a chartered institution; India signature. establishing the World it is selling the antidote. While Silicon Valley locks tissue of a parallel order. tracks — the European Union’s no one in Nairobi or Hanoi. If cannot answer with another The answer is not to sign, Artificial Intelligence “The development of its most powerful models Writing for the Carnegie risk-based AI Act, the network the choice on offer is a declaration. and not to sulk. Cooperation Organization — artificial intelligence should not behind subscriptions and Endowment for International of AI Safety Institutes in the generous Chinese “yes” or a Second, export the DPI It is to publish a better WAICO — an be a solo performance by any Washington debates who may Peace, the governance scholar United States and Britain, the silent Indian shrug, the Global advantage aggressively. The rulebook — open where intergovernmental body single country,” Xi told the download them, China is doing Arindrajit Basu warns that Global Partnership on Artificial South will take the models that world’s most credible non- Beijing is closed, citizen- headquartered in Shanghai. delegates, “but rather a the opposite — giving its Beijing “views the governance Intelligence, which India itself are free today and worry about Western model [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]