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Khanna bought a fresh stake in edible oils manufacturer Ajanta Soya as she held 1,78,500 equity shares or 1.11 per cent stake in the company, as of December 31, 2021.

UltraTech Cement Ltd., incorporated in the year 2000, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 218956.72 Crore) operating in Cement sector.

As of 30-Sep-2021, promoters held 50.0 per cent stake in the company, while FIIs held 32.13 per cent and domestic institutional investors had 4.39 per cent.

The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.23 per cent down at 11474.7.

A total of 203,331 shares changed hands on the counter till time (IST).

Avenue Supermarts on Saturday reported a 23.62 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 552.53 crore for the third quarter ended December 31. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 446.95 crore in the same quarter a year ago.

Analysts are largely mixed on Paytm shares with most targets not seeing the scrip revisiting its IPO issue price anytime soon.

"Our order book continues to grow against the backdrop of orders secured across all our business verticals,” KEC International MD and CEO Vimal Kejriwal, was quoted as saying in PTI’s report.

"Continuing with our focus on capital light growth, we have entered into JDA for six additional new projects during the quarter (October-December) having ~4.8 million square feet of saleable area with GDV (gross development value) of Rs ~10,000 crores," the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday evening.

"In the case of technology companies, most of them have guided for the fact that 80% to 90% of the surplus will be distributed to shareholders, so there are two ways. One is to give out a dividend. The second is to do a buyback."