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Indictment of the chairman and top executives of the Adani Group on bribery charges by a New York court, has set alarm bells ringing in India. Less than two years ago, a US short-seller, Hindenburg, had alleged massive financial impropriety by the Adani group, but after long drawn enquiries, SEBI gave the Adanis a clean chit ~ which was endorsed by the Supreme Court.

Degrees of failure

Today the war on intellect is no more confined to the authoritarian polities. Open societies are equally waging a war on academia. Big business houses and big tech companies in the US provide donations to academic institutions but these typically come with ideological blinders attached. The University of Utah accepted a $10 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish a free-market economics programme to counter the ostensibly Marxian bent of the university‘s economics department 

India, France, UAE launch trilateral initiative to promote cooperation

The objective of the initiative is to promote the design and execution of cooperation projects in the fields of energy, with a focus on solar and nuclear energy, as well as in the fight against climate change and the protection of biodiversity, particularly in the Indian Ocean region.