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Why is Kerala opposing the leasing out of Thiruvananthapuram Airport to Adani Enterprises?
A resolution has been passed by the Kerala Assembly with the demand for the withdrawal of the decision of the Union Cabinet to lease out the Thiruvananthapuram airport to Adani Enterprises. Earlier, the proposal for leasing out three airports i.e. Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram through the PPP model for 50 years has been approved by ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: AAI • Adani Group • airport authority of India • Kerala • PPP • Public Private Partenership models
Cabinet approves proposal to lease out Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports for 50 years
The proposal for leasing out three airports i.e. Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram through the PPP model for 50 years has been approved by the Union Cabinet. Key highlights Adani Enterprises Limited became the highest bidder for the project. This is not a case of permanent selling of airports. The Airport Authority of India still has ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Adani Group • airport authority of India • PPP in India • Privatization • Public Private Partenership models
Ahmedabad-based Adani group gets final approval for controversy-hit Carmichael coal mine project
Ahmedabad-based Adani group has recently got final approval for controversy-hit Carmichael coal mine project in Australia, after Queensland State authorities approved its groundwater management plan. The final approval for the Adani group’s long-delayed billion-dollar mega coal mine project came only weeks after a surprise election win of Australia’s pro-coal ruling coalition led by Prime Minister ..
Topics: Abbot Point • Adani Group • Black-throated finch • Carmichael coal mine • Charters Towers Region • Coal mining • Companies based in Ahmedabad • Galilee Basin • Gautam Adani • Isaac Region • Queensland • States and territories of Australia
Nileena MS wins 2018 ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism in print/online category
Journalist Nileena MS, a reporting fellow with The Caravan, has won the prestigious ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism in print/online category for the year 2018. She won the award for her story titled “Coalgate 2.0: The Adani Group reaps benefits worth thousands of crores of rupees as the coal scam continues under the Modi government”. ..
Topics: ACJ • Adani • Adani Group • Companies based in Ahmedabad • India • Indian coal allocation scam • Investigative journalism • Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam • States and union territories of India • Vidyut
India’s first private Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) factory opened in Hyderabad
India’s first private sector unit for manufacturing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has recently opened at Adani Aerospace Park near Shamshabad in Hyderabad. The 50,000-sq ft state-of-the-art facility facility is built by the Adani Group and Israel-based Elbit Systems. It will start operations with the manufacturing of complete carbon composite aero-structures for the Hermes 900 UAV, ..
Topics: Adani Group • Aerospace engineering • Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom • Aircraft • Aviation • Elbit Hermes 450 • Elbit Hermes 900 • Elbit Systems • Twin-boom aircraft