The Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has suspended certificate of registration of 40 registered retail pharmacies in Lusaka for breach of terms and conditions of the certificate of registration under which their licenses was granted. In a press statement made available to q-news, ZAMRA Public Relations Officer Ludovic Mwape says out of 64 pharmacies that were inspected, 40 where found ...

Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga has disclosed that trade between Zambia and India has exceeded One Billion United States Dollars target in the year 2018. Trade between Zambia and India improved from six hundred and fifty million US dollars in the year 2016 to nine hundred and eighty million us dollars for the year 2017 and further exceeded ...

Tottenham saw the gap to Premier League leaders Liverpool widen as Wolves fought back to defeat Mauricio Pochettino’s side. Harry Kane’s stunning strike from range had given Spurs a first-half lead, but goals from Willy Boly, Raul Jimenez and Helder Costa turned the game around. Liverpool then thrashed Arsenal in Saturday’s late kick-off to take advantage and go nine points ...

Third Test, Melbourne (day five) India 443-7 dec & 106-8 dec: Agarwal 42, Cummins 6-27 Australia 151 & 261: Cummins 63, Bumrah 3-53, Jadeja 3-82 India won by 137 runs; lead series 2-1 India saw off Australia by 137 runs in the third Test in Melbourne to take a 2-1 lead in the series. The hosts began the final day ...

Liverpool have had chances to win their first title since 1990 before – but they have never had a bigger or better opportunity than they will have this season. The clock can be turned back to Steven Gerrard’s catastrophic slip as Liverpool lost at home to Chelsea in 2014, a defeat that opened the door for Manchester City to rip ...

Dame June Whitfield – celebrated for her comic roles in BBC sitcom Terry and June and cult favourite Absolutely Fabulous – has died aged 93. The London-born actress was a regular fixture on TV and radio for six decades, starring in Carry On films, Hancock’s Half Hour, and even Friends. At 89, she appeared in EastEnders as Sister Ruth, a ...

Polls have opened in Africa’s second largest country in an election delayed for more than two years. Close to 40m people are eligible to vote in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where President Joseph Kabila – in power since 2001 – is standing down. But the run-up has been hit by violence and controversy over the decision to exclude almost ...

Bangladesh is voting in a general election, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her third consecutive term in office. Security forces are on high alert, with some 600,000 security personnel deployed across the nation. More than 100m people are eligible to vote. More than a dozen people have been killed in clashes between supporters of rival political parties. Ms Hasina ...

The International Plan Zambia has bemoaned the upsurge in teen pregnancies in africa. International Plan Zambia Regional Programme on ending child marriage in East and Southern Africa, Lazarous Mwale says consented efforts must be adopted to address the factors that lead to the pregnancies not only in Zambia but in africa as a whole. Mr. Mwale has noted the need ...

National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has challenged the teaching service commission to release the list for the recently recruited teachers. Early this month about 2,009 teachers have been selected for deployment in the 2018 recruitment exercise of whom 1265 are female and 744 are male. But NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa has expressed shock that the list ...