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Gautam Adani

The latest news on Gautam Adani, founder and chairman of the Adani Group, including Indian business news and updates.

Born

24 Jun 1962

Industry

Business

Job Title

Businessman

Attendees jostle for plates of puri and sabzi at the Madhya Pradesh Global Investors’ Summit food pavilion last month. Photo: X/muralitwit

India

Investors left hungry as summit in India devolves into viral food fight

Viral videos revealed a frenzy of jostling attendees, where the promise of corporate deals was drowned out by the clatter of dropped dishes.

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

22 Nov 2024 - 12:52AM

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

The four Adani heirs are set to inherit a US$213 billion empire from Gautam Adani. Photo: @PranavAdani/X

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

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 - 3:30PMvideocam

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 - 7:00AMvideocam

The US will provide US$553 million in financing for a port terminal in Sri Lanka’s capital being developed by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, as New Delhi and Washington look to curtail China’s influence in South Asia. Photo: Bloomberg

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

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

Gautam Adani speaks at an event in Mumbai in November. Photo: AFP

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 - 8:33AMvideocam

Chairman of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani. Photo: AFP

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

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

New revelations from Gautam Adani’s biography. Photos: @AdaniPriti/Twitter, Handout

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 - 7:21PMvideocam

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

Gautam Adani with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Twitter

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

Priti Adani, the wife of Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani, and chairperson of the Indian tycoon family’s Adani Foundation. Photo: Handout

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

Karan Adani is the son of billionaire Gautam Adani. Photos: @gautam_adani, @AdaniKaran/Twitter

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

Millionaires and billionaires

Birthday giveaway: Richest Asian pledges US$7.7 billion for social causes

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, who turns 60 on Friday, joins the ranks of global billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett who have committed large parts of their wealth for philanthropy.

24 Jun 2022 - 1:37PM

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