A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS). Shortly after taking off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin reported a problem with the rocket’s booster. The men were forced into a “ballistic descent”, with their capsule ...

Barclays Bank Zambia says it has in the past 3-years invested about K43 million in technologies aimed at digitalizing financial services to scale up client acquisition and patronage. And Barclays bank Zambia, MTN Zambia and JUMO, a technology company have launched a new savings product aimed at growing financial inclusion and bringing banking services to the unbanked. Speaking during the ...

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya says government in collaboration cooperating partners has invested a total of K3million in the training of Rapid Response teams countrywide in readiness for any disease outbreak and epidemics. Dr. Chilufya is confident that with the trainings that government has invested in with cooperating partners, Lusaka and the country at large is safe from any disease outbreak. ...

Palestine Ambassador to Zambia Walid Hasan says his Country still relies on the support of Countries like Zambia in the realization of a two state solution with Israel. Dr. Hasan says Palestine believes that the attainment of a two state solution and stability in the Middle East region will not happen without the help of African countries like Zambia. Speaking ...

Ministry of commerce, trade and industry permanent secretary Kayula Siame is hopeful that the three countries involved in the development of the Lobito corridor will soon come up with a road map for developing the corridor in order to increase port usage from 25 to 50 percent. The Lobito corridor which traverses four provinces in Angola, four provinces in DRC ...

The Zambia National Students’ Union (ZANASU) has called on the government to hold accountable the Police officers responsible for the death of Vespers Shimuzhila and compensates her family. ZANASU Chairperson Linda Mumba has told a media briefing that government should also ensure that meal allowances are paid in good time to avoid a repeat of what happened last week on ...

The Bio Fuels Association of Zambia (BAZ) has advised government to use cassava growing as a mode of implementing development in rural areas. BAZ President Professor Thomson Sinkala has told QTV News that Cassava is a raw material in the production of bio fuels and that enhanced production of the crop will result in the empowerment of rural communities. Professor ...

Minister of Justice Given Lubinda has been challenged to explain to the nation what is delaying the publication of the Constitution Amendment Bill. Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) governance advisor Isaac Mwanza says Mr. Lubinda should also tell the nation when exactly this Bill will be tabled in Parliament. Mr. Mwanza says his organization supports calls for the enactment of ...

Constitutional lawyer Sakwiba Sikota says the use of teargas by Police during last week’s riot at the University of Zambia (UNZA) is prosecutable under the Zambian laws. Mr. Sikota says this is if indeed police officers fired teargas in confined hostel rooms at the university during the fracas. In an interview with Q-News, Mr. Sikota states that there will be ...