Date: 16 February 2017

PRESS RELEASE

Replacements in Indices

The Index Maintenance Sub-Committee (IMSC) has decided to make the following replacement of stocks in various indices as part of its periodic review. These changes shall become effective from March 31, 2017 (close of March 30, 2017).

1) NIFTY 50 Index

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. BHEL 2 Idea Cellular Ltd. IDEA

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Housing Finance Ltd. IBULHSGFIN 2 Ltd. IOC

2) NIFTY 500 Index

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Alok Industries Ltd. ALOKTEXT 2 Bombay Rayon Fashions Ltd. BRFL 3 Brigade Enterprises Ltd. BRIGADE 4 Dynamatic Technologies Ltd. DYNAMATECH 5 Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd. FLFL 6 Ingersoll Rand () Ltd. INGERRAND 7 International Paper APPM Ltd. IPAPPM 8 Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd. JPPOWER 9 Jaypee Infratech Ltd. JPINFRATEC 10 JSW Holdings Ltd. JSWHL 11 KSB Pumps Ltd. KSBPUMPS 12 La Opala RG Ltd. LAOPALA 13 Lanco Infratech Ltd. LITL 14 Linde India Ltd. LINDEINDIA 1

15 Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. MAHLIFE 16 Mayur Uniquoters Ltd. MAYURUNIQ 17 Sequent Scientific Ltd. SEQUENT 18 Shoppers Stop Ltd. SHOPERSTOP 19 Simplex Infrastructures Ltd. SIMPLEXINF 20 Sintex Industries Ltd. SINTEX 21 Siti Networks Ltd. SITINET 22 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur Ltd. SBBJ 23 State Bank of Mysore MYSOREBANK 24 State Bank of Travancore SBT 25 Suprajit Engineering Ltd. SUPRAJIT

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Dilip Buildcon Ltd. DBL 2 Endurance Technologies Ltd. ENDURANCE 3 Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Ltd. FMGOETZE 4 Future Retail Ltd. FRETAIL 5 GHCL Ltd. GHCL 6 Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. GNFC 7 Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd. GUJALKALI 8 ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. ICICIPRULI 9 KNR Constructions Ltd. KNRCON 10 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. LTI 11 L&T Technology Services Ltd. LTTS 12 Max India Ltd. MAXINDIA 13 Ltd. MGL 14 Minda Corporation Ltd. MINDACORP 15 Minda Industries Ltd. MINDAIND 16 Navneet Education Ltd. NAVNETEDUL 17 Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd. NBVENTURES 18 Parag Milk Foods Ltd. PARAGMILK 19 Quess Corp Ltd. QUESS 20 Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd. RATNAMANI 21 Shilpi Cable Tech Ltd. SHILPI 22 Sterlite Technologies Ltd. STRTECH 23 Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd. SUDARSCHEM 24 Tata Investment Corporation Ltd. TATAINVEST 25 Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. THYROCARE

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3) NIFTY 100

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Enterprises Ltd. APOLLOHOSP 2 Ltd. BHARATFORG 3 India Ltd. CASTROLIND

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. ICICIPRULI 2 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 3 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD

The above replacements will also be applicable to NIFTY100 Equal Weight Index.

4) NIFTY Midcap 150

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Inox Wind Ltd. INOXWIND 2 Jet Airways (India) Ltd. JETAIRWAYS 3 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 4 Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. NETWORK18 5 Persistent Systems Ltd. PERSISTENT 6 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 7 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD 8 Sadbhav Engineering Ltd. SADBHAV 9 Tata Elxsi Ltd. TATAELXSI

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. APOLLOHOSP 2 Bharat Forge Ltd. BHARATFORG 3 Ltd. CASTROLIND 4 Endurance Technologies Ltd. ENDURANCE 5 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. LTI 6 L&T Technology Services Ltd. LTTS

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7 Manappuram Finance Ltd. MANAPPURAM 8 Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. MOTILALOFS 9 Quess Corp Ltd. QUESS

5) NIFTY Smallcap 250

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Alok Industries Ltd. ALOKTEXT 2 Bombay Rayon Fashions Ltd. BRFL 3 Brigade Enterprises Ltd. BRIGADE 4 Dynamatic Technologies Ltd. DYNAMATECH 5 Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd. FLFL 6 Ingersoll Rand (India) Ltd. INGERRAND 7 International Paper APPM Ltd. IPAPPM 8 Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd. JPPOWER 9 Jaypee Infratech Ltd. JPINFRATEC 10 JSW Holdings Ltd. JSWHL 11 KSB Pumps Ltd. KSBPUMPS 12 La Opala RG Ltd. LAOPALA 13 Lanco Infratech Ltd. LITL 14 Linde India Ltd. LINDEINDIA 15 Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. MAHLIFE 16 Manappuram Finance Ltd. MANAPPURAM 17 Mayur Uniquoters Ltd. MAYURUNIQ 18 Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. MOTILALOFS 19 Sequent Scientific Ltd. SEQUENT 20 Shoppers Stop Ltd. SHOPERSTOP 21 Simplex Infrastructures Ltd. SIMPLEXINF 22 Sintex Industries Ltd. SINTEX 23 Siti Networks Ltd. SITINET 24 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur Ltd. SBBJ 25 State Bank of Mysore MYSOREBANK 26 State Bank of Travancore SBT 27 Suprajit Engineering Ltd. SUPRAJIT

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Dilip Buildcon Ltd. DBL 2 Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Ltd. FMGOETZE 3 Future Retail Ltd. FRETAIL 4 GHCL Ltd. GHCL 4

5 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. GNFC 6 Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd. GUJALKALI 7 Inox Wind Ltd. INOXWIND 8 Jet Airways (India) Ltd. JETAIRWAYS 9 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 10 KNR Constructions Ltd. KNRCON 11 Max India Ltd. MAXINDIA 12 Mahanagar Gas Ltd. MGL 13 Minda Corporation Ltd. MINDACORP 14 Minda Industries Ltd. MINDAIND 15 Navneet Education Ltd. NAVNETEDUL 16 Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd. NBVENTURES 17 Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. NETWORK18 18 Parag Milk Foods Ltd. PARAGMILK 19 Persistent Systems Ltd. PERSISTENT 20 Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd. RATNAMANI 21 Sadbhav Engineering Ltd. SADBHAV 22 Shilpi Cable Tech Ltd. SHILPI 23 Sterlite Technologies Ltd. STRTECH 24 Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd. SUDARSCHEM 25 Tata Elxsi Ltd. TATAELXSI 26 Tata Investment Corporation Ltd. TATAINVEST 27 Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. THYROCARE

6) NIFTY MidSmallcap 400

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Alok Industries Ltd. ALOKTEXT 2 Bombay Rayon Fashions Ltd. BRFL 3 Brigade Enterprises Ltd. BRIGADE 4 Dynamatic Technologies Ltd. DYNAMATECH 5 Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd. FLFL 6 India Ltd. HAVELLS 7 Ingersoll Rand (India) Ltd. INGERRAND 8 International Paper APPM Ltd. IPAPPM 9 Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd. JPPOWER 10 Jaypee Infratech Ltd. JPINFRATEC 11 JSW Holdings Ltd. JSWHL 12 KSB Pumps Ltd. KSBPUMPS 13 La Opala RG Ltd. LAOPALA 14 Lanco Infratech Ltd. LITL 15 Linde India Ltd. LINDEINDIA

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16 Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. MAHLIFE 17 Mayur Uniquoters Ltd. MAYURUNIQ 18 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 19 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD 20 Sequent Scientific Ltd. SEQUENT 21 Shoppers Stop Ltd. SHOPERSTOP 22 Simplex Infrastructures Ltd. SIMPLEXINF 23 Sintex Industries Ltd. SINTEX 24 Siti Networks Ltd. SITINET 25 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur Ltd. SBBJ 26 State Bank of Mysore MYSOREBANK 27 State Bank of Travancore SBT 28 Suprajit Engineering Ltd. SUPRAJIT

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. APOLLOHOSP 2 Bharat Forge Ltd. BHARATFORG 3 Castrol India Ltd. CASTROLIND 4 Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. CROMPTON 5 Dilip Buildcon Ltd. DBL 6 Endurance Technologies Ltd. ENDURANCE 7 Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Ltd. FMGOETZE 8 Future Retail Ltd. FRETAIL 9 GHCL Ltd. GHCL 10 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. GNFC 11 Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd. GUJALKALI 12 KNR Constructions Ltd. KNRCON 13 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. LTI 14 L&T Technology Services Ltd. LTTS 15 Max India Ltd. MAXINDIA 16 Mahanagar Gas Ltd. MGL 17 Minda Corporation Ltd. MINDACORP 18 Minda Industries Ltd. MINDAIND 19 Navneet Education Ltd. NAVNETEDUL 20 Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd. NBVENTURES 21 Parag Milk Foods Ltd. PARAGMILK 22 Quess Corp Ltd. QUESS 23 Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd. RATNAMANI 24 Shilpi Cable Tech Ltd. SHILPI 25 Sterlite Technologies Ltd. STRTECH 26 Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd. SUDARSCHEM 27 Tata Investment Corporation Ltd. TATAINVEST 6

28 Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. THYROCARE

7) NIFTY Next 50

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. APOLLOHOSP 2 Bharat Forge Ltd. BHARATFORG 3 Castrol India Ltd. CASTROLIND 4 Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. IBULHSGFIN 5 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. IOC

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. BHEL 2 ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. ICICIPRULI 3 Idea Cellular Ltd. IDEA 4 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 5 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD

8) NIFTY Midcap 50

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Hexaware Technologies Ltd. HEXAWARE 2 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 3 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. APOLLOHOSP 2 Bharat Forge Ltd. BHARATFORG 3 Castrol India Ltd. CASTROLIND

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9) NIFTY Full Midcap 100

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. GUJFLUORO 2 IOB 3 Inox Wind Ltd. INOXWIND 4 Jet Airways (India) Ltd. JETAIRWAYS 5 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 6 Persistent Systems Ltd. PERSISTENT 7 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 8 Ltd. PFIZER 9 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD 10 Tata Elxsi Ltd. TATAELXSI

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. APOLLOHOSP 2 Bharat Forge Ltd. BHARATFORG 3 Castrol India Ltd. CASTROLIND 4 Dalmia Bharat Ltd. DALMIABHA 5 Dr. Lal Path Labs Ltd. LALPATHLAB 6 Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. EDELWEISS 7 Endurance Technologies Ltd. ENDURANCE 8 L&T Technology Services Ltd. LTTS 9 Manappuram Finance Ltd. MANAPPURAM 10 Quess Corp Ltd. QUESS

10) NIFTY 200

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. GUJFLUORO 2 Indian Overseas Bank IOB 3 Inox Wind Ltd. INOXWIND 4 Jet Airways (India) Ltd. JETAIRWAYS 5 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 6 Persistent Systems Ltd. PERSISTENT 7 Pfizer Ltd. PFIZER 8 Tata Elxsi Ltd. TATAELXSI 8

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Dalmia Bharat Ltd. DALMIABHA 2 Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. EDELWEISS 3 Endurance Technologies Ltd. ENDURANCE 5 Dr. Lal Path Labs Ltd. LALPATHLAB 4 ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. ICICIPRULI 6 L&T Technology Services Ltd. LTTS 7 Manappuram Finance Ltd. MANAPPURAM 8 Quess Corp Ltd. QUESS

11) NIFTY Smallcap 50

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 AstraZenca Pharma India Ltd. ASTRAZEN 2 Granules India Ltd. GRANULES 3 KPIT Technologies Ltd. KPIT 4 Manappuram Finance Ltd. MANAPPURAM 5 NIIT Technologies Ltd. NIITTECH 6 Sintex Industries Ltd. SINTEX 7 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur Ltd. SBBJ 8 State Bank of Travancore SBT 9 Suven Life Sciences Ltd. SUVEN 10 Texmaco Rail & Eng. Ltd. TEXRAIL

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Advanced Enzyme Tech Ltd. ADVENZYMES 2 Can Fin Homes Ltd. CANFINHOME 3 Escorts Ltd. ESCORTS 4 Jet Airways (India) Ltd. JETAIRWAYS 5 Mahanagar Gas Ltd. MGL 6 MMTC Ltd. MMTC 7 MOIL Ltd. MOIL 8 Tata Elxsi Ltd. TATAELXSI 9 Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. UJJIVAN 10 V-Guard Industries Ltd. VGUARD

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12) NIFTY Full Smallcap 100

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 AstraZenca Pharma India Ltd. ASTRAZEN 2 BF Utilities Ltd. BFUTILITIE 3 Himachal Fut Com Ltd. HFCL 4 Intellect Design Arena Ltd. INTELLECT 5 Kitex Garments Ltd. KITEX 6 Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. MAHLIFE 7 Manappuram Finance Ltd. MANAPPURAM 8 Marksans Pharma Ltd. MARKSANS 9 McLeod Russel India Ltd. MCLEODRUSS 10 PTC India Fin Serv Ltd. PFS 11 Sintex Industries Ltd. SINTEX 12 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur Ltd. SBBJ 13 State Bank of Mysore MYSOREBANK 14 State Bank of Travancore SBT 15 Ltd. WELCORP

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Advanced Enzyme Tech Ltd. ADVENZYMES 2 Can Fin Homes Ltd. CANFINHOME 3 Dilip Buildcon Ltd. DBL 4 GHCL Ltd. GHCL 5 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. GNFC 6 Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd. HCC 7 Jet Airways (India) Ltd. JETAIRWAYS 8 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 9 Mahanagar Gas Ltd. MGL 10 MMTC Ltd. MMTC 11 MOIL Ltd. MOIL 12 Swan Energy Ltd. SWANENERGY 13 Tata Elxsi Ltd. TATAELXSI 14 Trident Ltd. TRIDENT 15 Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. UJJIVAN

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13) NIFTY Free float Midcap 100

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Adani Enterprises Ltd. ADANIENT 2 Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd. HDIL 3 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 4 Piramal Enterprises Ltd. PEL 5 Sintex Industries Ltd. SINTEX

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. IBREALEST 2 ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. ICICIPRULI 3 IDFC Bank Ltd. IDFCBANK 4 India Cements Ltd. INDIACEM 5 RBL Bank Ltd. RBLBANK

14) NIFTY Free float Smallcap 100

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Ltd. ALKEM 2 Corporation Bank CORPBANK 3 Den Networks Ltd. DEN 4 Eros Intl Media Ltd. EROSMEDIA 5 Escorts Ltd. ESCORTS 6 GHCL Ltd. GHCL 7 GVK Power & Infrastructures Ltd. GVKPIL 8 Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. IBREALEST 9 Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd. LAKSHVILAS 10 NBCC (India) Ltd. NBCC 11 Punj Lloyd Ltd. PUNJLLOYD 12 Rolta India Ltd. ROLTA 13 Shoppers Stop Ltd. SHOPERSTOP 14 Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. RENUKA 15 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur Ltd. SBBJ

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The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Adani Enterprises Ltd. ADANIENT 2 Advanced Enzyme Tech Ltd. ADVENZYMES 3 Aegis Logistics Ltd. AEGISCHEM 4 Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Ltd. BBTC 5 Endurance Technologies Ltd. ENDURANCE 6 Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd. HDIL 7 Hexaware Technologies Ltd. HEXAWARE 8 Infibeam Incorporation Ltd. INFIBEAM 9 Justdial Ltd. JUSTDIAL 10 KPIT Technologies Ltd. KPIT 11 Mahanagar Gas Ltd. MGL 12 NIIT Technologies Ltd. NIITTECH 13 Sterlite Technologies Ltd. STRTECH 14 V-Guard Industries Ltd. VGUARD 15 Welspun India Ltd. WELSPUNIND

15) NIFTY Bank

The following company is being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 BANKINDIA

The following company is being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 IDFC Bank Ltd. IDFCBANK

16) NIFTY Media

The following company is being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Siti Networks Ltd. SITINET

The following company is being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Navneet Education Ltd. NAVNETEDUL

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17) NIFTY Metal

The following company is being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Bhushan Steel Ltd. BHUSANSTL

The following company is being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd. RATNAMANI

18) NIFTY Private Bank

It has been decided to revise the stock selection criteria of NIFTY Private Bank index. At the time of final selection of 10 companies in NIFTY Private Bank index, a preference shall be given to companies that are available for trading in NSE’s Futures & Options segment.

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Ltd. CUB 2 Karur Vysya Bank Ltd. KARURVYSYA

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Karnataka Bank Ltd. KTKBANK 2 South Ltd. SOUTHBANK

19) NIFTY Commodities

The following company is being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. JINDALSTEL

The following company is being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 PI Industries Ltd. PIIND

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20) NIFTY100 Liquid 15

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Lupin Ltd. LUPIN 2 Ltd. TATAMOTORS

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. IOC 2 Vedanta Ltd. VEDL

21) NIFTY Midcap Liquid 15

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Havells India Ltd. HAVELLS 2 Petronet LNG Ltd. PETRONET 3 Reliance Power Ltd. RPOWER 4 Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. RECLTD

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Bharat Forge Ltd. BHARATFORG 2 Castrol India Ltd. CASTROLIND 3 MRF Ltd. MRF 4 Ltd. TATACHEM

22) NIFTY100 Low Volatility 30 Index

The following company is being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Divi's Laboratories Ltd. DIVISLAB

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The following company is being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Ltd. INFY

23) NIFTY Growth Sectors 15 Index

The following companies are being excluded:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Ltd. ASIANPAINT 2 HCL Technologies Ltd. HCLTECH 3 Infosys Ltd. INFY 4 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. TCS 5 Ltd. WIPRO

The following companies are being included:

Sr. Company Name Symbol No. 1 Ltd. BRITANNIA 2 Ltd. GODREJCP 3 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. M&M 4 Ltd. MARICO 5 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. ZEEL

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