1 / 7Hindustan Zinc | The company said its board has cleared the setting up of a 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) tailings reprocessing plant, with a planned capital expenditure of up to ₹3,823 crore. The facility, which the company said will be India’s first of its kind, is designed to recover metals from accumulated tailing dumps. The move forms part of the miner’s broader “2X growth plan,” aimed at doubling capacity.
2 / 7Vedanta | Metals and mining company said that a meeting of its board of directors is scheduled for Thursday, August 21, 2025, to consider and approve the second interim dividend on equity shares, if any, for the financial year 2025-26. The company further stated that the record date for determining the entitlement of equity shareholders for the dividend, if declared, has been fixed as Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
3 / 7Vodafone Idea | Debt-laden company is actively exploring non-banking funding options to sustain its capital expenditure (capex) plans, as uncertainty around adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues continues to delay negotiations with traditional lenders. Outgoing CEO Akshaya Moondra revealed these details during the company’s June quarter earnings call on Monday, August 18.
4 / 7Airtel | Telecom major on Monday faced a widespread outage, leaving thousands of subscribers unable to make calls or access mobile data services. According to outage-tracking platform Downdetector, complaints began spiking around 3 pm and peaked at over 3,600 reports by 4.29 pm. Typically, Airtel’s baseline reports remain in the low double digits, highlighting the scale of the disruption.
5 / 7GMR Airports | The company informed that it has served notice for the voluntary redemption of its non-convertible bonds (NCBs) in line with the provisions of the bond trust deed dated November 17, 2023. The redemption covers three sets of bonds — one worth ₹1,950 crore, another worth ₹800 crore, and a third worth ₹2,250 crore. Together, these add up to ₹5,000 crore.
6 / 7Escorts Kubota | Farm and construction equipment firm said the Excise & Taxation Officer, Faridabad (East), Haryana, has sanctioned a refund of ₹46.37 crore out of the total refund claim of ₹46.67 crore filed by the company under Rule 89(1) of the Haryana GST Act, 2017. The refund claim was made on account of input tax credit (ITC) accumulated under the inverted duty structure.
7 / 7Reliance Industries | Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL) announced its entry into the healthy functional beverage category with a majority stake acquisition in a joint venture with Naturedge Beverages. Naturedge Beverages, founded in 2018 by Siddhesh Sharma of the Baidyanath Group, is known for its flagship brand Shunya, a zero-calorie, zero-sugar functional drink infused with Ayurvedic herbs such as Ashwagandha, Brahmi, Khus, Kokum and Green Tea.
