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24 Jun 1962
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India
India’s Adani visits China in strategic push for renewables amid US legal woes
The visit to a solar module manufacturer highlights Adani’s efforts to sustain momentum in renewable energy despite increased international scrutiny.
11 Jun 2025 - 7:29PM
India
Investors left hungry as summit in India devolves into viral food fight
5 Mar 2025 - 1:55PM
Sri Lanka
Adani denies Sri Lanka cancelled wind power purchase deal
25 Jan 2025 - 11:30PM
United States
US charges India’s Gautam Adani, one of world’s richest people, with bribery
The billionaire and 7 others are accused of agreeing to pay US$265 million to Indian officials to obtain solar energy supply contracts.
22 Nov 2024 - 12:52AM
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Millionaires and billionaires
Meet the 4 heirs poised to inherit Gautam Adani’s US$213 billion empire
Karan, Jeet, Pranav and Sagar Adani are already making their mark, from redeveloping Asia’s largest slum in Mumbai, India, to building a renewable energy park that can be seen from space
9 Oct 2024 - 12:13PM
India
India’s Gautam Adani finally has a succession plan for his company
Gautam Adani announced that his sons and nephews will take over the family conglomerate following his retirement – but not for a while.
6 Aug 2024 - 4:29PM
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India
India’s Adani suffers US$25 billion wipeout after Modi’s poor poll showing
It was the biggest single-day rout the US$189 billion Adani Group conglomerate has faced, dwarfing the hit it took from a US short seller’s allegations of corporate misconduct over a year ago.
5 Jun 2024 - 3:30PM
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Sri Lanka
US invests US$553 million in Adani’s Sri Lanka port to curb China’s influence
The deepwater West Container Terminal in Colombo is the US government agency’s largest infrastructure investment in Asia, and among its biggest globally.
10 Nov 2023 - 7:00AM
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Millionaires and billionaires
10 most powerful billionaires in Asia – net worths, ranked
From India’s energy magnates Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani to China’s Zhong Shanshan and Pony Ma Huateng, which billionaires in Asia are giving back big?
22 May 2023 - 10:30AM
India
India PM Modi under fire for Adani links, silence over fraud allegations
Congress, India’s main opposition party, staged protests to highlight the billionaire tycoon’s close links with India’s prime minister.
6 Feb 2023 - 6:04PM
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India
Stock wipeout knocks Asia’s richest man Adani out of world’s top 10 wealthiest
Gautam Adani was the fourth richest person in the world last week, but is now 11th. And the losses in Indian markets have spilled over to his fellow billionaires.
31 Jan 2023 - 4:19PM
India
Can India’s ‘survivor’ Gautam Adani ride out Hindenburg fraud report?
US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research accuses the Adani Group of pulling ‘the largest con in corporate history’ through accounting fraud, share-price manipulation and money-laundering.
31 Jan 2023 - 8:33AM
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Millionaires and billionaires
Move over Ambanis: meet India’s richest woman, Savitri Jindal
She was put in charge of Jindal Group after her husband’s tragic death in 2005 … but who exactly is India’s new richest woman, Savitri Jindal?
8 Dec 2022 - 8:00AM
India
India’s economy will expand to US$30 trillion by 2050, tycoon Adani says
The nation’s GDP could expand by US$1 trillion every 12 to 18 months in the next decade, which will mean energy consumption will rise by 400 per cent by 2050, and the country will undertake ‘an unparalleled’ transition to cater for this demand, he said.
19 Nov 2022 - 7:43PM
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Millionaires and billionaires
5 Gautam Adani book bombshells: the story behind Asia’s richest man
A new Gautam Adani biography reveals juicy details about the world’s most private billionaire, but the book’s author R.N. Bhaskar didn’t get permission to write it initially – so what did we learn?
8 Nov 2022 - 11:42AM
Mukesh Ambani and family
India’s richest billionaire wives, compared: Nita Ambani and Priti Adani
Being a billionaire’s wife certainly has its perks, but how much do India’s Nita Ambani and Priti Adani actually have in common, from their family lives to senses of style?
29 Sep 2022 - 8:00AM
India
China risks being ‘isolated’ from rest of world, says Asia’s richest person
Speaking at a conference in Singapore, Gautam Adani said China’s “increasing nationalism, supply chain risk mitigation and technology restrictions” would likely affect its connectivity with other economies.
27 Sep 2022 - 7:21PM
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Celebrity children
Meet Jeet Adani, son of the world’s second richest billionaire
From his role in the family’s billion-dollar business to his passion for flying and supercars, here’s everything you need to know about Gautam Adani’s son, Jeet Adani
26 Sep 2022 - 3:44PM
Mukesh Ambani and family
India’s billionaire heirs, compared: Karan Adani and Akash Ambani
Karan Adani and Akash Ambani are the eldest sons of Indian tycoons Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, but how do their opulent lives compare?
20 Sep 2022 - 8:00AM
India
India’s Gautam Adani now richer than Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Gautam Adani is now the second richest person in the world, after the Indian’s fortune of US$146.9 billion surpassed Jeff Bezos’ net worth of US$145.8 billion.
18 Sep 2022 - 2:37PM
Millionaires and billionaires
Dropout to diamonds: 4 major events that shaped billionaire Gautam Adani
After his wealth soared in recent years, Adani has become the world’s third richest person, a mere few billion behind Jeff Bezos – here are some of the major milestones on his journey
2 Sep 2022 - 8:00AM
India
Asia’s richest man, his leg-up from Modi, and why the good times may not last
Indian tycoon Gautam Adani is already the third richest man on Earth and his aggressive empire-building spree shows no signs of stopping. But is the Adani Group’s debt-fuelled rise sustainable?
12 Sep 2022 - 9:50AM
Crazy Rich Asians
Gautam Adani vs Mukesh Ambani: their opulent lives, compared
As Asia’s two wealthiest men go head-to-head in the business world for the first time, we look at how the tycoons’ business empires, spending habits and family lives compare
11 Aug 2022 - 8:00AM
India
Asia’s richest men prepare to battle in India as Adani enters Ambani’s turf
Guatam Adani – worth more than US$115 billion – made his riches in power, green energy, gas, and ports, but may venture into telecommunications, where Mukesh Ambani – who is worth US$87 billion – has the leading company in India’s mobile market.
2 Aug 2022 - 8:10AM
Millionaires and billionaires
Who is Paridhi Shroff, daughter-in-law to Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani?
She may have married into a family worth billions, but how has Shroff gone her own way with her law career and property investments?
18 Jul 2022 - 8:00AM
Crazy Rich Asians
Who is Gautam Adani’s wife? Meet Priti – spouse of Asia’s richest man
The wife of Asia’s new richest man leads the charitable Adani Foundation, is a qualified dentist, and loves gardening and start-ups
6 Jul 2022 - 8:00AM
Crazy Rich Asians
Meet Karan Adani, son of Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani
Gautam is currently the richest man in Asia with US$99.9 billion in the bank, but what do we know about his son, who’s been groomed since 2009 to take over Adani Group’s multi-business empire?
4 Jul 2022 - 1:52PM
Millionaires and billionaires
Gautam Adani at 60: is Asia’s richest man also India’s most generous?
The Ambanis are famously extravagant but, in contrast, Adani opted to serve up cake to his employees and donate billions to charity, focusing on healthcare and education
29 Jun 2022 - 3:35PM
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