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Lightning strikes kill 50 in Bangladesh

Ligh May 14, 2016- More than 50 people across Bangladesh have died after being struck by lightning in the past two days, police say. Many of the dead were farmers who were killed as they worked in their paddy fields. Bangladesh is prone to electrical storms but this year they have been particularly severe. Experts suggest a general rise in temperatures and deforestation may be factors. Other victims included two students in the capital, Dhaka, who were struck as they played football, and a teenage boy who died when he went to collect mangoes. About 90 people have been killed by lightning since March, compared to a total of 51 people in the whole of 2015, Voice of America (VoA) reported. The head of Bangladesh's disaster management body Mohammad Riaz Ahmed told VoA he was "indeed concerned" by the rise in the number of deaths. He said further thunderstorms were predicted for later this month. Strong tropical storms regularly hit Bangladesh ahead of and during the monsoon season, which runs from June to September.

Bangladesh Bank heist similar to Sony hack; second bank hit by malware

- Reuters

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May 13, 2016- Investigators probing the cyber heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank connected it on Friday to the hack at Sony Corp's film studio in 2014, while global financial network SWIFT disclosed a previously unreported attack on a commercial bank.

SWIFT did not say which commercial bank it was or whether it had lost money, but cyber-security firm BAE Systems said a Vietnamese bank, which it did not name, had been a target. It was not clear if they were referring to the same attack and there was no immediate comment from authorities in Hanoi.

SWIFT, the linchpin of the global financial system, said forensic experts believed the second case showed that the Bangladesh heist was not a single occurrence, but part of a wider campaign targeting banks.

In both cases, SWIFT said, insiders or cyber attackers had succeeded in penetrating the targeted banks' systems, obtaining user credentials and submitting fraudulent SWIFT messages that correspond with transfers of money.

CTEVT to provide free education to 500 quake-affected children

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May 11, 2016- The Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) will take under its wing a total 500 students of 14 districts affected by the April 25 earthquake.

The CTEVT will provide free education to the quake-affected children, said CTEVT spokesperson Shiva Shankar Ghimire.

The information was shared at a press conference in the CTEVT premises today.

Ghimire said that only those children who have obtained identity cards of 'A' category provided to quake survivors will be able to avail of the facility and that they will be selected under the special technical education.

He added that the classes will be conducted from June 2. The beneficiaries will be from quake-affected districts including Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Kavrepalanchok, Rasuwa, Dhading, Nuwakot, Gorkha, Makawanpur, Ramechhap, Dolakha, Sindhuli and Okhaldhunga.

The students provided freeship will be given living allowance of Rs 3,500 per month, transport allowance of Rs 1,500 annually, Rs 2,500 as dress allowance and cost-free tuition and hostel facility as well.

CTEVT member-secretary Ramhari Lamichhane said that Rs 650 million would be spent in providing scholarship to the students from the impoverished communities.
"Annually Rs 1.02 billion would be spent in the scholarship for 88 students," he said. RSS

Private medical colleges seek revision to medical education bill

- Post Report, Kathmandu

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May 13, 2016- The Association of Private Medical and Dental Colleges of Nepal has expressed its reservation over the final draft of the amended bill on National Medical Education Act submitted by Health Profession Education Commission (HPEC) to PM KP Oli on Thursday.

Issuing a statement on Friday, the Association claimed that most of the points in the bill should be reviewed. The Association claims that Nepali students will be deprived of their birth right to study in the country, if the final draft of the bill is not revised.

“The regressive draft that promotes closure of domestic medical colleges and encourages foreign medical colleges in the country is not acceptable to us,” said Association’s President Dr. Bhola Rijal in the statement.