Digital media platform Newslaundry has moved the Delhi High Court, challenging a directive issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) that mandates digital news publishers to take down several articles and videos relating to the Adani Group of Companies.
Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day just an hour after convening on Monday as the presiding officers rejected demands from Opposition MPs to discuss the alleged bribery charges involving the Adani Group.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that industrialist Gautam Adani has broken both the Indian and American law, and wondered how is he still roaming scot-free, after the U.S. prosecutors charged the billionaire chairman of the Indian conglomerate with bribery and fraud.
US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged Saturday that SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband Dhaval Buch had stakes in “obscure offshore funds” used in “Adani money siphoning”, news agency PTI reported.
Climate groups, the Indian diaspora organization South Asia Solidarity Group, and pro-Palestinian organizations protested the opening of a new gallery sponsored by the Indian conglomerate Gautam Adani's Green Energy at the London Science Museum. The Adani-sponsored gallery, named Adani Green Energy Gallery, opened on Monday, aims to showcase how renewable energy can combat climate change.
The United States has widened its investigation of Adani Group to focus on the conduct of its founder, Gautam Adani, and whether the company may have engaged in bribery, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.