Copy of Newspaper Publication

Date: 24/8/2026 The Secretary NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE OF INDIA LIMITED BSE LIMITED Listing Department P J Towers Exchange Plaza, 5th Floor, Bandra-kurla Complex, Dalal Street, Fort, Bandra (East), Mumbai 400 001 Mumbai – 400 051. Company Code No. : 530699 Company Code : RAJRILTD Dear Sir/Madam, Sub.: Newspaper Advertisement - Disclosure under Regulations 30 read with 47 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 Pursuant to the provisions of Regulation 30 read with Regulation 47 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and in compliance with all applicable circulars issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the Securities and Exchange Board of India, please find enclosed the copies of newspaper advertisement published in newspapers on 22nd August, 2026 i.e. Free Press Gujarat (English) and Lokmitra (Gujarati) intimating the members that ensuing 33rd Annual General Meeting of the members of the Company for the year 2025-26 is to be held through Video Conferencing (“VC”)/ Other Audio-Visual Means (“OAVM”), without physical presence of the members at a common venue. Kindly place the same in your records. Thanking you, FOR RAJ RAYON INDUSTRIES LIMITED RAJKUMAR SATYANARAYAN AGARWAL MANAGING DIRECTOR DIN: 00395370 Encl.: A/a 22-08-2026 Saturday Beyond broad pledges: India’s tech sovereignty Editorial A litmus test push in Africa and ASEAN In these days of extreme weather events, it seems odd to say that the United States of America needs a big landslide. The Union government Middle-Income Countries But a landslide defeat for President Donald Trump in November’s announced last week in Lok (LMICs). Pluses and mid-term elections is exactly what is required if the country is Sabha that it had signed Challenges in the Global South to start reversing his deliberate and rapid erosion of its Memorandums of India’s global south digital democracy. The respected Varieties of Democracy Institute at Understanding (MoUs) with 24 diplomacy push enables Gothenburg University argues that in 2025 the US saw one of countries marking a significant member country tech the most rapid declines in liberal democracy on record. shift in its foreign policy, sovereignty. Unlike proprietary “Democracy in the USA,” says its Democracy Report 2026, “is moving from broad digital vendor software, DPI now at its worst in 60 years.” As the imperial republic marks cooperation pledges to platforms like MOSIP are the 250th anniversary of its founding, the danger seen at the tangible technology exports. open-source and modular. very beginning of its constitutional order by anti-federalists By leveraging its domestic Host nations retain full legal such as Patrick Henry — that of an overmighty president abusing success with the “India Stack”, and administrative control over his executive power in an attempt to become a new king — the government is attempting their data, completely has come closer than ever before. to establish “global digital avoiding "vendor lock-in". In V-Dem analysts note that in 2025 Trump issued no fewer commons” through Digital addition, the cost factor comes carries risks of state laws are not in place in the host than 225 executive orders whereas the Republican-controlled Public Infrastructure (DPI) into play since building upon surveillance and exclusion if nation. DPI also requires Congress passed just 49 laws, most of them on minor issues leveraging its “Modular Open pre-existing, tested open- robust constitutional privacy foundational. such as “To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify Source Identity Platform source rails is vastly cheaper the rules for postponing certain deadlines by reason of disaster.” (MOSIP)”. for developing nations than The Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’, crafted to advance Expanding India’s digital building digital infrastructure the so-called ‘unitary executive theory’, is, according to the diplomacy from Africa to from scratch or buying project’s own tracker, more than halfway to completion — Southeast Asia introduces a Western enterprise solutions. helped by rulings from the Supreme Court. An important completely different The systems are designed to chapter in any would-be autocrat’s playbook is fixing the next geopolitical and economic talk to each other (e.g., election. It seems Trump is hard at work on this one too. dynamic. While Africa identity links to payments, Besides outrageous levels of partisan gerrymandering represents a landscape where which links to welfare (responded to in kind by the Democrats in some places), there India is helping build distribution), acting as a are multiple attempts to deny the vote to groups more likely to foundational infrastructure, "development accelerator" for vote Democrat, whether by restricting mail-in ballots, Southeast Asia is a highly economic growth. demanding on-the-spot documentary proof of US citizenship, digitized, rapidly growing There are, however, exist or other legal and procedural devices. If the November 3 election market. challenges of Privacy and result were to be close in a number of congressional districts The Africa Focus: Building Surveillance Risks since DPI that might swing control of the House of Representatives, Foundational DPI relies on centralized databases Trump and the Republicans would pull out every stop to Focus Africa in India’s (often biometric). Critics note disqualify or exclude Democrat victors. Hence the imperative digital diplomacy marks a that exporting centralized of a landslide. As I saw in Hungary this spring, if the popular pivot from traditional capacity- identity frameworks inherently revulsion towards an incumbent is sufficiently widespread and building to proactive channelled into turning out to vote, it sweeps away all the technological integration. It obstacles that the would-be autocrat puts in place — and those was during India's 2023 G20 obstacles were, taking all in all, larger in the Hungarian case Presidency, which enshrined than they are in the US. The election may not be fair; it may DPI in the New Delhi Leaders' not even be entirely free; but the result is still irrefutably plain Declaration as a global for all to see. Now, if you ask who is doing most to bring about standard, that Africa an anti-Trump landslide, the answer is clear: Donald Trump. witnessed a renewed After he campaigned on bread-and-butter issues for ordinary attention. Africa is now the Americans, the combination of his tariffs and his war of choice epicentre of India's DPI in the Middle East has actually increased the cost of living — deployment marking a most visibly, in petrol prices for motorists. There is, to put it reinforcement of India’s global mildly, no obvious path to a victorious peace in a war against south push. The Africa focus Iran which, according to official figures, has cost $37.5 billion, in India’s digital diplomacy with the new administration already requesting another enables countries to build a $67.1bn for this purpose. Popular opposition to the war is common digital framework approaching 60% in opinion polls, as is the president’s based on shared stewardship disapproval rating. The blatant corruption of his regime adds rather than lording over by to his unpopularity. According to one estimate, he has so far foreign tech monopolies. enriched himself and his family to the tune of roughly $2bn. Ultimately, India is positioning The latest revelation is the attempt by the Fifa president and itself as the technological Trump crony, Gianni Infantino, to sell stakes in running the champion of the Global South, World Cup to an investment fund led by Joshua Kushner, the offering a middle path brother-in-law of Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. Satire wilts at the between Western corporate pairing of Fifa and Trump. All this adds up to the electoral monopolies and China's equivalent of an open goal for the Democrats. But where’s the hardware-heavy, proprietary Lio [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]