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News, The Morning Context

Adani’s ties with Adi group make convenient business sense

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Ostensibly competing suppliers of imported coal, the two business groups are joined at the hip and may actually be helping each other out. An investigation by The Morning Context lays out how the lines between client, supplier, investor, associate and proxy blur. The Adi group’s businesses range from coal and commodity trading to real estate development. Its founder, Utkarsh Shah, is described as a friend of Adani group chairman Gautam Adani for over 30 years.

News, The Probe

Pawan Hans Investigation Impact: Government Decides to Revamp Bidding Process for Disinvestment of Public Assets

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In a three-part series, the Probe’s Ravi Nair, Abir Dasgupta, and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta revealed the glaring discrepancies in selecting the winning bidder for the disinvestment of the government-owned helicopter service provider Pawan Hans Limited. The Probe has learnt that the government has decided to introduce stringent clauses to the due diligence process on qualified bidders in disinvestment deals of public assets.

News, News Laundry

How top Meta executive Shivnath Thukral has links with a firm that works for Modi and BJP

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The firm, Opalina Technologies, was involved in the #MainBhiChowkidar campaign. Shivnath Thukral owned stake in this firm, and his father continues to do so. Shivnath Thukral, a public policy director, India, at WhatsApp Inc (owned by Facebook, now known as Meta) since March 2020, had once owned a stake in Opalina Technologies – a company that has provided software solutions for India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the prime minister’s office, the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Caravan Magazine, News

An Unnamed IAS Officer Levels Serious Allegations of Corruption Against Big-Four Firm KPMG India

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An anonymous letter written by a civil servant, addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has levelled serious allegations against the multinational consulting firm KPMG’s India operations. In the letter, a senior bureaucrat who claims to be a member of the elite Indian Administrative Service accuses the group of exercising influence over key government officials by, among other means, recruiting their children and relatives.

News, The Wire

Modi Government’s Rs 500-Crore Bonanza to the Adani Group

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The government has quietly tweaked rules relating to special economic zones – and the new rules specifically favour the Adani Group. The government recently took a decision to quietly tweak the rules relating to special economic zones (SEZs) which has enabled a company in the Adani Group to reap a bonanza of around Rs 500 crore.

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