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Sun Pharma to be watched after clarification on fire accident

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Last Updated : Dec 30 2016 | 9:13 AM IST

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Sun Pharma) clarified after market hours yesterday, 29 December 2016, with respect to news suggesting blast at the company's unit on 28 December 2016. A fire broke out at its Ahmednagar factory during excavation work, causing burn injuries to four workmen at the excavation site. All the four injured workmen were immediately rushed to a nearby Hospital.

Two of the injured workmen succumbed to burn injuries and other two are being treated at the hospital. According to preliminary updates, both of them are responding well to treatment. The company is currently investigating the matter with the help of local law enforcement. There is no loss of production at Ahmednagar factory on account of this incident. This is not a material event nor would have any bearing on the operations/performance of the company, Sun Pharma added.

Jagran Prakashan announced that the meeting of the board of directors of company is scheduled to be held on 5 January 2017, inter-alia, to consider the proposal for buy-back of shares. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 29 December 2016.

Godrej Properties announced that it has entered into a partnership to develop a residential group housing project in the prime locality of Bavdhan, West Pune. This project will be developed under the profit share arrangement. The announcement was made before market hours today, 30 December 2016.

GE Power India announced that it has been awarded a contract worth about Rs 271.1 crore by Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) to supply components and services for the supercritical steam generator island packages for 2x800 megawatts (MW) coal-based Uppur thermal power project (contract value about Rs 162.6 crore) and 1x800 MW coal-based North Chennai supercritical thermal power project stage-III (contract value about Rs 108.5 crore). Both the thermal power projects are located in Tamil Nadu. This is in line with the government's focus on upgrading the power infrastructure in the country. The announcement was made before market hours today, 30 December 2016.

Shriram Transport Finance Company announced that the allotment committee-non-convertible debentures (NCDs) of the company in a meeting held yesterday, 29 December 2016, allotted debentures aggregating to Rs 75 crore on private placement basis. The debentures have tenure of 10 years and carry coupon rate of 8.5% per annum. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 29 December 2016.

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R S Software (India) announced that the company has made further investment of Rs 5.9 crore in Paypermint, its subsidiary, for allotment of 59 lakh equity shares of Rs 10 each. The company is no longer holding the entire shareholdings of Paypermint. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 29 December 2016.

Paypermint is into its first year of operations and is operating in the field of online payment facilitation. The acquisition is made to effect growth of subsidiary. The company will hold 75% and 25% will be held by Rajnit Rai Jain in Paypermint.

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First Published: Dec 30 2016 | 8:10 AM IST

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