{"id":389610,"date":"2020-12-15T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389610"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:30:36","slug":"from-terror-attack-survivor-to-mukesh-ambanis-rival-the-story-of-gautam-adani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/from-terror-attack-survivor-to-mukesh-ambanis-rival-the-story-of-gautam-adani\/","title":{"rendered":"From terror attack survivor to Mukesh Ambani&#8217;s rival: The story of Gautam Adani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani has a knack for surviving crisis. He was held for ransom more than two decades ago and in 2008 was among the hostages of Mumbai\u2019s Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the terror attacks that killed more than 160 people. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, his business acumen and ability to overcome obstacles have propelled him to the ranks of India\u2019s richest. And while the coronavirus outbreak sank the nation into an unprecedented recession this year, Adani\u2019s group has kept growing. His conglomerate secured global partners, investments and pushed into new sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of most of his firms have surged, including those of his mining, gas and ports units. Adani Green Energy Ltd has jumped more than sixfold this year as it received a record $6 billion solar-power deal, another step toward the company\u2019s goal of becoming the world\u2019s largest renewable-energy maker by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani has a knack for surviving crisis. He was held for ransom more than two decades ago and in 2008 was among the hostages of Mumbai\u2019s Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the terror attacks that killed more than 160 people. Since then, his business acumen and ability to overcome obstacles have propelled him to the ranks of India\u2019s richest. And while the coronavirus outbreak sank the nation into an unprecedented recession this year, Adani\u2019s group has kept growing. His conglomerate secured global partners, investments and pushed into new sectors. Shares of most of his firms have surged, including those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}