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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New application filed in SC against Adani group over US indictment
New Delhi: A fresh application has been submitted to the Supreme Court of India, seeking the inclusion of key documents related to the recent US indictment of the Adani Group. Filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, the petition aims to introduce two critical pieces of evidence into an ongoing case related to the Adani Group's financial practices.
The first document is a formal US court indictment accusing Gautam Adani, his relative Sagar Adani, and other company executives of orchestrating a massive bribery scheme to secure solar energy contracts worth billions of dollars in India. The indictment alleges that over $250 million in bribes were paid to Indian government officials to obtain these lucrative contracts.
The second document is a complaint from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which accuses the Adani Group of securities fraud. The SEC alleges that Adani executives misled investors to raise funds for these solar projects, despite knowing that part of the capital was linked to corrupt activities.
This development follows the US Attorney's Office's recent charges against the Adani executives, who are accused of masterminding a bribery scheme to secure power supply contracts with state-run utilities in India. The contracts were expected to yield up to $2 billion in profits over two decades.
These charges come amid an ongoing investigation by India's Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) into the Adani Group, after allegations of stock manipulation and market irregularities surfaced, particularly following the release of the Hindenburg Report in early 2023. The new US legal documents could play a crucial role in strengthening the investigation into the Adani Group's business operations.
