India, Pakistan border guards trade fire on Kashmir border
Kashmir. — The border guards of India and Pakistan yesterday fired on each other’s position on international border in Kashmir, officials said. The two sides using light and heavy artillery…
50 families face Zimasco eviction
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau Nearly 50 families in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province, face eviction from Zimasco chrome compound after the Monday deadline they were given to vacate the houses to…
Liverpool swoop on Remy
LONDOn. – Liverpool have agreed an £8,5 million fee with QPR to sign the France international striker Loic Remy. The bid activated a release clause in the contract of the…
Bastia tipped to take over Germany captaincy
MUNICH. – German midfield general Bastian Schweinsteiger is favourite to become the World Cup soccer winners’ captain after the surprise international retirement of Philipp Lahm.
Ex-convicts launch 10-track album
Lovemore Meya Arts Correspondent Free Divine Choral Group on Saturday night serenaded a capella music lovers at the Anglican Cathedral Hall when they put up a top-notch act during the…
Israelis watch bombs drop on Gaza from front-row seats
Robert Mackey Correspondent Israelis gathered on a hilltop outside the town of Sderot on Monday to watch the bombardment of Gaza
IOM introduces new programmes
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has introduced community stabilisation intervention programmes in high migrant areas of Beitbridge district to address push factors in irregular migration,…
Bring back contract musicians
Fred Zindi Music Column From the 1950’s to the 1970’s, unemployment among musicians was not heard of as the majority of musicians were employed on “contracts” either in beerhalls or…
Aids forum pays tribute to MH17 crash victims
Melbourne. — A six-day world forum on Aids got underway yesterday to tributes to six campaigners killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and renewed vows to crush a disease that…
Zim name World Cup squad
Bulawayo Bureau THE Zimbabwe rugby team to face Russia at Central Stadium on August 2 in a 2015 World Cup qualifier has been named. Twenty-four players will make the trip…


