INDIAN BILLIONAIRE GAUTAM ADANI CHARGED IN U. S. FOR ALLEGED BRIBERY, FRAUD. (PHOTO).
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US for alleged bribery, fraud Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, whose business empire extends from ports and airports to renewable energy,has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, United States prosecutors have said. The authorities on Wednesday charged Adani and two other executives at Adani Green Energy, his nephew Sagar Adani and Vneet Jaain, with agreeing between 2020 and 2024 to pay more than $250m in bribes to Indian government officials to obtain solar energy supply contracts expected to yield $2bn in profits. Prosecutors said the renewable energy company also raised more than $3bn in loans and bonds during this period based on false and misleading statements. Shares of Adani Enterprises, the group's flagship firm, closed down 22% on Thursday. Other group firms also closed in the red. Adani Green Energy, which is the firm at the c
According to health officials,a woman has died of Ebola in Liberia,months after the West African nation was declared free of the virus and weeks after neighbouring Guinea also recorded a new flare-up.The woman was brought to a clinic in Paynesville,just east of the capital Monrovia after falling ill and was later transferred to a hospital in the city.She died on thursday.''A young lady in her early thirties died of Ebola yesterday at the Redemption Hospital''.Liberia was declared free of active Ebola transmission in January,having passed 42 days,twice the length of the virus's incubation period without a new case.While the World Health Organisation said this week that West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health risk,the region has continued to see small flare ups even after countries received the all clear.One more photo below. 
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