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The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat on Thursday told the state Assembly there was no tendering process to award a contract for the 'Adani Skill Development, Ahmedabad' facility meant to impart training to Scheduled Caste youths. Responding to query from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Hemant Ahir during Question Hour, state Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Bhanuben Babariya said the Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare had signed a contract with the entity to train SC youths in March 2019 and issued a work order in August 2019. As per the contract, the state government would pay Rs 13.98 crore to Adani Skill Development to train these youths, of which Rs 7.87 lakh had been paid in the last two years, as per the minister's written reply. In reply to a sub-question on whether a tender process was followed, Babariya replied in the negative, adding further not a single SC youth was imparted training in 2021 and 2022 by the entity. As per the official website, 'Adani Skill
Nathan Anderson, the founder of Hindenburg Research whose damning report led to a USD 100 billion-plus rout in Adani Group shares, has said that his firm has never been banned, its bank account never seized and that it is not under any investigation. Since it published a scathing 100-plus-page report alleging that Adani pulled "the largest con in corporate history" on January 24, there have been comments on social media that Hindenburg had "three criminal inquiries" in the US and that it was banned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), its bank accounts frozen and it has been barred from publishing any report on firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Anderson, in a tweet, attached a news report "debunking" such "lies" and said Hindenburg was neither banned nor is under any investigation. "We are banned by FINRA (never); Had bank accounts seized (no); Can't publish on NYSE-listed co's (this isn't a thing); Are under investigation (no)," he said. Hindenburg, .