adminCouple jailed for ill-treating daughter
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau A Mutorashanga couple, which forced its 13-year-old disabled daughter to live with chickens since September last year, has been sentenced to two years in jail. The couple was…
Govt taps into UZ floods software
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Government is set to sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Zimbabwe after it developed a software to detect and predict floods to ensure that…
Command Agric: Provinces speak •Ministers unanimous on bumper crop •concerned about storage space
Lloyd Gumbo Senior Reporter— MOST provinces countrywide are expecting a bumper harvest largely due to Command Agriculture and the Presidential Inputs Support Scheme, with ministers of state for provincial affairs…
3 die in traffic accident
Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent Three people were killed, while 16 others were seriously injured when a commuter omnibus overturned and rolled several times before it plunged into a small bridge and…
Trump slips 220 spots on Forbes list
NEW YORK. – US President Donald Trump slipped 220 spots on Forbes 2017 Billionaires List, while Bill Gates topped the list for the forth straight year according to the list…
Two more Chiriseri corpse robbers die in freak accidents
Whinsley Masara Bulawayo Bureau TWO more people who allegedly robbed Apostle Charles Chiriseri’s corpse last year have died in freak accidents. This brings to three the known number of people who have…
Climate extremes in 2017
GENEVA. – Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic “heatwaves”, are continuing this year, after 2016 topped the global temperature charts and saw shrinking sea ice and surging sea levels. The…
Extremist had ISIS data in cuff link
LONDON. – A British court has disclosed that an Islamic State-linked extremist has pleaded guilty to five offences after being found with incriminating information stored in a cuff link.
Command water harvesting gets nod
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Government is set to construct weirs in all 10 provinces as part of its Command Rain Water Harvesting Programme aimed at harnessing water from floods and excessive…
US bans electronic devices on flights
WASHINGTON/LONDON. – The US has announced a ban on large electronic devices from cabin baggage on passenger flights from eight Muslim-majority countries. Bombs could be hidden in laptops, tablets, cameras, DVD…