Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Business: Sterlite Industries (India) Limited announces files of annual report

Mumbai, India (BUSINESS WIRE) - Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (NYSE:SLT) ("Sterlite") today announced that its annual report on Form 20-F, containing its annual consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended 31 March, 2008 and the auditors' report thereon (the "Annual Report"), was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on 30 June, 2008.

The Annual Report is also available on Sterlite's corporate website at www.sterlite-industries.com.

Shareholders may also obtain a hard copy of the Annual Report, free of charge, by sending a written request to the Company's registered office or by sending an e-mail to comp.sect@vedanta.co.in, attention: Ms. Kavitha Pillai.

About Sterlite Industries Sterlite Industries is India's largest non-ferrous metals and mining company with interests and operations in aluminum, copper and zinc and lead. It is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, a London-based diversified FTSE 100 metals and mining group. Sterlite Industries' main operating subsidiaries are Hindustan Zinc Limited for its zinc and lead operations; Copper Mines of Tasmania Pty Limited for its copper operations in Australia; and Bharat Aluminium Company Limited for its aluminum operations. The company operates its own copper operations in India. The company has entered the commercial energy generation business and is in the process of setting up a 2,400MW independent power plant through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sterlite Energy Limited. Sterlite Industries is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange in India and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.

For more information, please visit www.sterlite-industries.com.

Disclaimer: This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as "expects,""anticipates,""intends,""plans,""believes,""seeks,""should" or "will."

Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us, uncertainties arise from the behaviour of financial and metals markets including the London Metal Exchange, fluctuations in interest and or exchange rates and metal prices; from future integration of acquired businesses; and from numerous other matters of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive or regulatory nature. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different that those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.

Sterlite Industries (India) Limited Sumanth Cidambi, +91 22 6646 1531 Associate Director Investor Relationssumanth.cidambi@vedanta.co.inSheetal Khanduja, +91 22 6646 1427 Manager Investor Relationssheetal.khanduja@vedanta.co.in

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