Militants seize Anbar University campus in Iraq: police

RAMADI: Jihadists took staff and students hostage on Saturday at a university campus in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where security forces have been battling rebels for months, police said.

The militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, seized the Anbar University campus after killing its guards, they added.

1 killed, 3 injured in Seattle campus shooting

LOS ANGELES: A lone gunman killed one person and injured three others Thursday on a college campus in the northwestern US city of Seattle, where the mayor denounced America´s "epidemic of gun violence.

"The latest bloody rampage to shake the United States came just two weeks after an apparently mentally disturbed man opened fire at a California university and killed six people. Those wounded at Seattle Pacific University, including at least one who was critically hurt, were being treated in hospital. The dead victim was a 20-year-old man, according to police.

The Seattle Police Department described how the gunman opened fire in a lobby of a science building on the campus. "Police have one suspect in custody, an adult male who was subdued after being pepper-sprayed by a student security guard," the police statement added. Initial reports suggested there were two gunman, but police said that proved false.

Mayor Ed Murray expressed outrage that his city had fallen victim once more to the gun violence plaguing the United States. "Today should have been a day of celebration at the end of the school year. Instead it´s a day of tragedy and of loss," he told reporters. "Once again, the epidemic of gun violence has come to Seattle, the epidemic of gun violence that´s haunting this nation."

Witnesses described their fear as the shooting unfolded, and the bloody aftermath. One student recounted hearing a loud bang from next to the classroom he was in. His teacher initially thought it was a science experiment, but someone went out and came back saying: "I think someone´s been shot.""So we turn off the lights we lock the door and we close the blinds," the student, identified as Blake, told KIRO 7 TV."I was scared for about a minute," he added, recalling hearing shouting and someone running past the door.After a couple of minutes, "cops come in through another classroom which was connected to ours and they escorted us out."I just saw piles of blood on the ground, just scattered throughout the lobby. And I actually stepped in a puddle.... "I saw someone was on the ground. Someone was on top of them, their hands behind their head."Police spokesman Chris Fowler described how the young male gunman was taken into custody after opening fire in the lobby of a building on the campus.He began to reload when a student who was monitoring the building "confronted the shooter (and) was able to subdue the individual," Fowler told reporters, without directly confirming the death."Once on the ground, other students jumped on top of them and they were able to pin the shooter to the ground until police arrived."Less than two weeks ago, a reportedly mentally unstable 22-year-old man killed six people before turning the gun on himself at a college campus in Santa Barbara, California.School shootings have become a tragic periodic occurrence in the United States in recent years.They include the December 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 small children dead, and the Virginia Tech shooting in April 2007 in which 33 died, including the gunman.mt

LUMS to Become Cashless Campus with MCB Lite

MCB Bank Ltd (MCB) and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) have signed MoU to transform LUMS into a ‘cashless’ campus.
This project will showcase MCB Lite – the world’s 1^st socially connected mobile wallet – specially designed to provide digital payments convenience in socially connected groups of people such as the LUMS student body, faculty and staff on campus.
Together MCB and LUMS intend to make LUMS the first completely cashless campus in Pakistan where students, faculty and various other stakeholders will be able to carry out transactions using their mobile phones or the accompanying MCB Lite Visa Card. 
During the course of this project, MCB will pilot various cutting edge technologies such as Near-Filed-Communications and Mobile Point-of-Sale terminals.
On the occasion of signing the MOU, LUMS Vice Chancellor Dr. Sohail Naqvi stated that, “We are excited about this partnership with MCB. This is an excellent opportunity for our students to carry out research and development on a live banking platform.  We want LUMS to be a hotbed of innovation in mobile banking and technology to help define the future of consumer financial platforms for Pakistan as well as the rest of the world.”
About this new initiative, Head of Digital Banking at MCB, Qasif Shahid, expressed that “MCB sees LUMS as a driver of innovation and behavior change in the Pakistani society.  The university is full of bright and intelligent people open to adopting new, innovative technologies and payment types.” He further added, “We want students and faculty to experience the convenience of digital money and adopt these new payments types and business models in other aspects of their lives as well. Ultimately, we would love to see some of these intelligent individuals innovating and taking this concept further in directions not imaginable as yet.”
Sohail Malik, Head of Alliances & Loyalty added “MCB Lite is the most innovative and convenient financial product in the world, and LUMS is the 1st school of Pakistan getting their premises completely digitized and cashless through this unique and innovative product”