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The company had posted a consolidated net profit of ₹8,572.14 crore in the year-ago period, Coal India Ltd (CIL) said in a filing to BSE.

The filing said that total income during the January-March period rose to ₹41,761.76 crore from ₹40,457.59 crore a year ago.

The company said that Mahanadi Coalfields' (MCL) Ib Valley coal washery, with a capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), began operating in April last year and became the largest non-coking coal washery in the country.

The company has launched the drug in strengths of 200 mg, 400 mg, 600 mg, and 800 mg, following the approval of its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) from the US USFDA, Lupin said in a regulatory filing.

The company is one of the first ANDA applicants and is eligible for 180 days of shared generic exclusivity, it added.

Eslicarbazepine Acetate tablets, 200 mg, 400 mg, 600 mg, and 800 mg, are bioequivalent to Aptiom tablets in the same strengths of Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.

It had posted a net loss of ₹29.10 crore in the January-March period of the preceding 2023-24 fiscal year, the company said in an exchange filing.

The company's total income fell to ₹22.24 crore from ₹85.64 crore in the year-ago period.

EKI's expenses declined to ₹29.33 crore during the quarter under review from ₹114.73 crore a year ago.

Besides, the Godrej Industries Group also expects its profit to go up again once the palm oil prices, a key raw material for its soap business, come down, said Sitapati in a post-earnings media briefing.

GCPL termed the persistent inflation a "short-term blip", where it has passed on only 15–16 % of the palm oil price increase to customers.

The company, which owns brands such as Cinthol, Godrej Fair Glow, Godrej No. 1, Ezee, Goodknight, HITS, etc., has reported a consolidated net profit of ₹411.9 crore in the March quarter, along with an underlying volume growth of 6 %.

Vodafone Idea lost 5.41 lakh mobile users from its network, and its subscriber base shrank to 20.53 crore users.

As per the data, Jio's addition of 21.74 lakh wireless users during the month pushed up its subscriber count to 46.97 crore.

For Bharti Airtel, the mobile base expanded to 38.98 crore, with the addition of 12.50 lakh users in March.

UBL's revenue from operations dropped by 7.54% to ₹4,427.15 crore in the March quarter compared to ₹4,788.68 crore in the corresponding period a year ago, according to a regulatory filing by the company controlled by Dutch multinational brewing company Heineken NV.

Its total expenses were at ₹4,303.09 crore, down 8.54 % in the March quarter of FY25.

Its total income, which includes other income, in the March quarter, was down 7.9 % to ₹4,435.16 crore.

UBL's net profit for the financial year ended on March 31, 2025, was up 7.67 % to ₹442.41 crore. It was at ₹410.86 crore a year before.

The company had posted a profit of ₹341.22 crore in the same quarter previous fiscal year, Dabur India said in a regulatory filing.

Revenue from operations in the quarter under review stood at ₹2,830.14 crore as against ₹2,814.64 crore in the year-ago period, it added.

Total expenses were higher at ₹2,559.39 crore as compared to ₹2,490.43 crore.

FMCG demand trends remained subdued during the fourth quarter and full year 2024-25.

The company’s revenue from operations stood at ₹4,018.96 crore in Q4 FY25, jumping % YoY from ₹3,327.77 crore in the March quarter of the 2023-24 fiscal year (Q4 FY24).

Due to continued pricing pressure in all geographies, the company’s revenue marginally grew by 1% year-on-year (YoY) to ₹3,509 crore in the quarter under review, compared to ₹3,475 crore in Q4 FY24.

For the quarter under review, its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) stood at ₹327 crore, slipping 26% YoY from ₹443 crore in the year-ago period. Its margin shrank to 9.3% from 13.8%.