Special lecture by BITS Pilani director on June 22
Mangaluru, June 19: KK Birla Goa Campus Director of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, one of the prestigious higher education institutions of the country, Prof G Raghuram will give a special lecture at the St. Aloysius College here on June 22.
As Raghuram is the alumnus of the St. Aloysius College, the Physic Department of the college has decided to felicitate him during the programme. The special lecture would be held at the Fr. LS Rasmina auditorium at 9 am. Principal Dr Praveen Martis SJ would preside over it. Prof Raghuram would speak on ‘How youth should prepare to face the future?’, said convener Dr Narayan Bhat in a press statement.
Hailed from Gunaje of Elkana village in Kasaragod district, Raghuram has got his high school education from the High School division of the Perdala Mahajana Sanskrit College. Later, he got his PU education from Vivekananda College of Puttur and completed his BSc from St. Aloysius College of Mangaluru. He got his MSc degree from Madras IIT and PhD from Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) of Bengaluru. He was working in BITS Pilani as EEE Department professor from 1987. In 2010 he was promoted as Pilani Campus Director and since 2016, he has been working as Goa Campus Director, it is said.
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Magisterial probe ordered into Goa nightclub fire; FIR lodged against owner, GM
Panaji (PTI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the fire at a nightclub which claimed 25 lives.
Speaking to PTI, Sawant said an FIR has been lodged against the owner and the general manager of the nightclub and they would be arrested.
The fire broke out at Birch by Romeo Lane after midnight. The popular party venue at Arpora village, located around 25 km from the state capital Panaji, opened last year.
CM Sawant, in a post on X, said, "I am closely reviewing the situation arising from the tragic fire incident at Arpora, in which 25 people have lost their lives and six have been injured."
"All six injured persons are in a stable condition and are receiving the best medical care. I have ordered a magisterial inquiry into the entire incident to identify the cause and fix responsibility," he said.
Speaking to PTI, Sawant said the police have registered an FIR against the owner and the general manager of the nightclub, and they would be arrested.
He said this is the first time that such an incident has happened in Goa.
A preliminary inquiry has indicated that the fire started on the first floor of the club, and due to congestion and small doors, the customers could not move out, the CM said.
"Some of them rushed to the ground floor and got trapped there," he said.
