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The billionaire’s media investments are in the nature of insurance against bad publicity.

Talk to any Adani group executive and the recurring theme of the conversation is the Ahmedabad-headquartered conglomerate’s obsession with controlling costs. As most of its businesses are leveraged and the group continues to be highly indebted, the focus at all Adani units is to pare costs to the bone and curb unwanted expenditure.
In that light, it may be pertinent to ask why group chairman Gautam Adani is investing in the media business, which by any yardstick is not a fit in an empire that is largely focused on infrastructure and commodities.
Rough estimates suggest that the group will end …
A regulatory easing could see the billionaire’s conglomerate move from running airports to owning an airline—an idea he is warming up to, with multiple options open.
After a strong listing, Vedanta Aluminium Metal is running into some headwinds. Aluminium prices are easing, but the sharper challenge is rising competition from Kumar Mangalam Birla and Gautam Adani.
A proposed SEC settlement lifts the biggest overhang on the Adani Group—its access to US capital markets.