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Ravi Nair

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The Wire columnist Ravi Nair lied, made baseless allegations and failed to substantiate them: Read how the Gandhinagar court verdict busts Leftist claims of...

Shraddha Pandey - 11 February, 2026

Through its counsels S V Thakkar and K P Raichura, the AEL alleged that between October 2020 and July 2021, accused Ravi Nair published defamatory content, particularly a series of tweets against the complainant on his X handle @t_d_h-nair, in addition to articles published on the anti-Adani website “Adani Watch”.

Law

Gujarat: Gandhinagar court convicts The Wire columnist Ravi Nair in Adani defamation case, sentences him to one year in jail

OpIndia Staff - 10 February, 2026

Filed in 2021 by Adani Enterprises Limited, the case concerned posts published between 2020 and 2021. The court cited their frequency and continuity to conclude a deliberate attempt to malign the complainant rather than bona fide journalism.

News Reports

WaPo tries to pull off a Hindenburg, misleads about LIC’s publicly known investment in Adani Group through dubious ‘journalists’, ‘experts’ and non-existent ‘internal documents’

Dibakar Dutta - 25 October, 2025

LIC has invested heavily in several private companies. Its top holdings include Reliance Industries (₹1.38 lakh crore), ITC Ltd (₹82,342 crore), HDFC Bank, TCS, IDBI Bank, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, SBI, L&T, and Infosys. As such, it is not unusual for LIC to invest in Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) and that too an amount of ₹5000 crores.

News Reports

The Wire columnist compares Afghanistan’s currency with INR to insinuate its economy is stronger than India’s, becomes the butt of all jokes

OpIndia Staff - 18 November, 2024

Currency comparison is not a comprehensive or universally effective yardstick for measuring economic performance. But athe Wire's Ravi Nair insinuated that the Afghan economy is stronger because 1 Afghan Afghani is equivalent to Rs 1.26.