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Ref: Akums/Exchange/2026-27/27 June 19, 2026 To, To, The Listing Department The Listing Department National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. BSE Limited Exchange Plaza, C-1, Block G, 25th Floor, New Trading Ring, Bandra Kurla Complex, Rotunda Building, Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Bandra (E), Mumbai – 400 051 Towers, Dalal Street, Mumbai – 400 001 Symbol: AKUMS Scrip Code: 544222 Sub: Newspaper Advertisements of the 22nd Annual General Meeting of the Company Respected Sir/Ma’am, Pursuant to Regulation 30 read with Schedule III of Part A of Para A of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, please find enclosed herewith copies of the newspaper advertisements published in Business Standard (English) and Business Standard (Hindi) on June 19, 2026, in connection with 22nd Annual General Meeting of Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited scheduled to be held on Friday, July 10, 2026 at 11:00 A.M. (IST), through Video Conferencing(“VC”)/ Other Audio-Visual Means (OAVM). A copy of this disclosure is being updated on website of the Company at www.akums.in This is for your information and records. Thanking you, For Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited Dharamvir Malik Company Secretary & Compliance Officer Encl.: As above We want to be part of India’s Medicover keeps IPO pulse steady amid KKR talks growth story: Meta executive anjali singh binding offers or agreements in remained at a preliminary stage Mumbai, 18 June place,” P Hari Krishna, execu- and there was nothing concrete &For Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s VP Infrastructure, global network. Infrastructure already significant capacity. tive director, Medicover Hospi- to disclose beyond the parent the latest data centre investment in Jamnagar is investments are massive—tens You first get the foundations Medicover Hospitals said its tals, told Business Standard. He company’s oicial statement. more than just another infrastructure project. Born of billions of dollars—and once right. You build the networks, planned initial public offering said the company remained He dismissed media reports in Mumbai and raised in Ahmedabad, the company’s global you commit, you’re commit- establish operations, and then (IPO) remains on track despite focused on pursuing a public on the valuation of the India infrastructure chief describes the move as “homecoming”. But ting for decades. India is doing you have the ability to scale. ongoing discussions between listing and that the discussions business being discussed at beyond the personal connection, Janardhan sees the invest- very well on those parameters. Reliance as a partner is not parent company Medicover AB with KKR had not altered its around $1.05 billion, saying the ment as part of a broader bet on India at a time when artificial At the same time, Meta’s com- exclusive by any means. Jam- and private equity firm KKR plans. “The IPO is our preferred company had no information on intelligence (AI) is driving one of the biggest technological shifts pute needs are exploding, and nagar is a natural place for us over a possible sale of the route and we are actively work- how such figures were arrived at. he has witnessed in his career. In an in-person interview with AI is a major catalyst. When to be. We also have the option Swedish healthcare group’s ing towards it,” Krishna said. “We have not yet finalised Shivani Shinde in Mumbai, he talks about India’s rising those two things come to scale the facility all the way Indian hospital operations. According to him, investment bankers for importance, changing data centre architecture and the latest together, India becomes a very up to 1 gigawatt if we choose to. The clarification comes a Medicover Hospitals the IPO. Once they are data centre investment. Edited excerpts: attractive place to invest. That was very much part of the day after Medicover AB dis- is targeting a market appointed, they will partnership discussions. closed that it had been debut around Sep- advise on the deal How significant is India n I don’t completely agree Will the new data centre approached by KKR and was in tember or October, size, valuation, and in Meta’s infrastructure that this is a radical shift where coming up in Jamnagar The buzz on sovereign AI has discussions regarding a poss- subject to market co- market capitalisa- road map? we suddenly decided India is cater to existing products, gathered momentum, ible sale of its Indian oper- nditions, and expects tion,” Krishna said. n While we’ve had a presence important. We’ve been on a or will it be dedicated to especially with the ban on ations. The company said there to file its draft red her- Medicover Hospitals in India for a long time, one of steady cadence for quite some AI workloads? Anthropic’s model by the US was no certainty that the talks ring prospectus within the currently operates around the bigger things we did last time. There are certain n Both. My job, as Mark government. How much of would lead to a transaction and next three to four months. 6,000 beds across Maharashtra, year was Project Waterworth. ingredients coming together (Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Plat- the investments we are reiterated that preparations for The executive declined to Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India is a huge part of it. The in India. forms) puts it, is to enable the seeing now is being driven an IPO of its India hospital comment on media reports and Karnataka. The company data centre is another substan- First, the ingredients future without knowing by this broader focus on sov- business were continuing. suggesting that Medicover AB plans to focus on consolidating tial financial commitment. within India itself. The demo- exactly what the future will be. ereign AI? “KKR approached Medi- may sell its entire 66.9 per cent its existing operations over the More than just a financial graphics are unique on the This is a 15-20 year investment. n I would not think about it cover and discussions are stake in the India business, next two years before entering a commitment, it’s a show of world stage. There’s deep The data centre is going to out- that way. The data centre ongoing. However, there are no saying the discussions fresh phase of expansion. faith in the ingredients that we digital penetration, strong last a lot of us in the company. investment did not happen think India is getting right. mobile adoption, and we We need to build flexibility and because of sovereign AI. This It’s also a little-known fact effectively leapfrogged an optionality into it. We want to has been under discussion for that a meaningful portion of entire generation of techno- ensure that almost anything quite some time. When you Meta’s revenue today runs on logical change. There’s a lot of and it also matched with can be done on it. What I can make investments of this mag- our own silicon. A big part of latent talent, and talent in what companies want to do. tell you is that we are not ruling nitude, you do not suddenly that work comes from our terms of engineering. Infrastructure investments anything out. Wheth er it’s train- change direction because of a teams in Bengaluru. They do a There’s also a technology- are made over 15 to 20 years. ing, inferenc e, agents, or future new sovereign AI conversation. lot of silicon work and founda- favoured government. You can You need confidence that workloads, we want the infra- India is a remarkable story, tional chip development. We buy train tickets on Whats- the environment will structure to support all of it. and I think all of us should be want to be part of India’s App, access government docu- remain stable. proud of it because the growth story, and I think all ments on WhatsApp, and From a technical perspec- Is there room for expansion ingredients are truly here. The the stars are aligned. engage with digital services in tive, we serve the world from in the future? Would data centre is here because ways that are unique. Also, our data [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]