{"id":52654,"date":"2023-02-16T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/feb\/15\/could-trouble-for-adani-trip-up-narendra-modi"},"modified":"2023-02-16T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:00:19","slug":"could-trouble-for-adani-trip-up-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52654","title":{"rendered":"Could trouble for Adani trip up Narendra Modi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repercussions from Hindenburg report reach into political sphere as spotlight falls on tight-knit relationship between India\u2019s prime minister and the billionaire<\/p>\n<p>Gautam Adani is a hard man to avoid in India. Whether it\u2019s electricity, ports, power plants, coalmines, airports, cement, solar panels, apples, edible oils, storage of data or grains or even a television news channel, the colossal empire of India\u2019s most powerful billionaire has reached into almost every corner of Indian life.<\/p>\n<p>According to Adani, his staggering rise from a nondescript diamond merchant in Gujarat to Asia\u2019s richest man \u2013 whose wealth at one stage surpassed Jeff Bezos \u2013 and with whom much of India\u2019s future development has been entrusted, is due only to \u201chard work, hard work, hard work\u201d. His own successes, he has said, are the successes of the \u201cIndia growth story\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/feb\/15\/could-trouble-for-adani-trip-up-narendra-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repercussions from Hindenburg report reach into political sphere as spotlight falls on tight-knit relationship between India\u2019s prime minister and the billionaireGautam Adani is a hard man to avoid in India. Whether it\u2019s electricity, ports, power plants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[630,6,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adani-group","category-business","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52655,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52654\/revisions\/52655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}