New Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood watched from the stands as his side reached the FA Cup quarter-finals at the expense of Leicester City. Leandro Bacuna’s curled strike put Villa ahead after a flat first half, before Scott Sinclair scored late on to seemingly secure the victory. The home side’s nerve was tested after Andrej Kramaric grabbed one back for ...

Wes Anderson’s off-beat comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel has won the top film prize at the Writers Guild Awards. The film, which is nominated for nine Oscars, won the award for best original screenplay – for a script co-authored by Anderson and Hugo Guinness. Graham Moore picked up best adapted screenplay award for his work on The Imitation Game, about ...

A building in northern India has collapsed, killing 13 people believed to be from the same family. The three-storey building in Uttar Pradesh state was near completion when it fell on a family of weavers asleep on the ground floor, police said. At least three escaped unhurt when the structure came down in Dulhipur village near the city of Varanasi. ...

Alliance for better Zambia president father frank Bwalya says he is surprised by the statement issued by t the grand coalition spokesperson MacDonald Chipenzi countering his party’s alleged suggestion that having a referendum as means of adopting the country’s new constitution will be waste of time and resources. Father Bwalya has told Qfm news that he feels that the statement ...

Patriotic Front Shibuyunji District has commended President Edgar Lungu for appointing opposition leaders in governing the country. Chairman Joseph Kasonde has told Qfm news in a statement that President Lungu has demonstrated continuity of the late president Michael Sata’s legacy thereby shaming all his critics that have been underrating his regime. Mr. Kasonde District is appealing to president Lungu to ...

The Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) has expressed concern at the poor performance of grade 12s that sat for the 2014 examinations. ZNUT Director for Research Christopher Yalukanda says that the poor performance of the 2014 Grade 12’s was as a result of the Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) decision to ban extra tuitions in schools. Mr. Yalukanda had ...

Veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga has observed that the excluding of representation for two provinces is what he finds most disturbing in the country’s newly constituted Cabinet. Dr. Mwaanga, who has not named the provinces, says his hope is that as part of the national inclusive government President Edgar Lungu has promised to come up with, there will be an attempt ...

US based Zambian academician Henry Kyambalesa has advised that in order to circumvent the costs associated with Parliamentary and local government by-elections some additional amendments must be made to the final draft constitution. Mr. Kyambalesa has proposed the inclusion of a constitutional clause providing for a political party that loses a Member of Parliament or elected local government official due ...

The COMESA Court of Justice has defined the extent of immunities and privileges accorded to the COMESA Institutions. In a landmark Advisory Opinion delivered by the Appellate Division of the Court on the 5th of February 2015 sitting in Lusaka, it stated that the immunities and privileges granted to COMESA Institutions did not extend to commercial transactions between individuals or ...

The opposition MMD has been cautioned to seriously conduct an introspection of itself if it is to evade its impending extinction. The opposition political party is being advised to do a postmortem of itself by way of its current leadership examining itself. The Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) thinks that the manner in which the current leadership has been running ...