On the surface, no unsettling activity is known to be going on over the quota system of the University of Malawi selection but Malawi News can report subterranean official jostling on the matter.

A dense crowd of fear has gripped Blantyre Kabula constituency following reports about a series of unexplained murders that have taken place the past few weeks, Malawi News has established.

A new study's findings has raised hopes of a more effective way of tackling tuberculosis one of the diseases which continue to claim lots of lives in the world including Malawi.

People in villages under Traditional Authority Khwethemule in Thyolo Thava constituency are paying a heavy price for the area's geographical placement as they cannot afford to access public hospitals which are located some 30 kilometres away.

Twelve people were arrested in Lilongwe yesterday as authorities broke off light resistance from street vendors and successfully swept clean the nuisance.

In reaction to various concerns from the general public, government plans to crack a whip on illegal entrants by deporting them while relocating all bonafide refugees to Dzaleka Refugee Camp by June 2013.

Disappointed by low prices and finding no satisfying explanation for the situation, cotton farmers in Traditional Authority Mlumbe in Zomba suspect buying companies have colluded to offer low price for the crop this year.

Self-styled local business mogul Leston Mulli of Mulli Brothers Limited, who runs Flatland Timbers, has been stopped from plying his trade from South Viphya Forest Reserve following an ex-parte injunction granted by the Mzuzu High Court on Thursday, Malawi News can reveal.

President Joyce Banda yesterday celebrated her achievements in public life spanning 30 years and 100 days of presi-dency at a colourful sym-posium held at Comesa hall in Blantyre.

Cases of school vandalism by irate students which have been making headlines in recent times has drawn a tough stance from Ministry of Education which is trying to arrest the malpractice that has seen millions of kwachas worth of infrastructure destroyed.

Massive logging of a natural forest is going unabated in a mountain in Machinga but key players who should have helped to stop it have claimed they are not aware.

A Malawi Cancer Registry (MCR) database has indicated that Kaposi sarcoma is the most common type of cancer among men reaching up to 50 percent of the cases registered. The database collected between 1985 and 2010 has recorded 60,000 cases of cancer in Malawi in which 32,000 were women and 28,000 were men.

The abuse of sachets by school going children has stirred debate with contributors calling for strict regulation on the selling of alcohol and age limit on the consumers.

A Fiji consultant who was hired by the British firm which government licensed for oil exploration on Lake Malawi is demanding K64.2 million in unpaid consultancy fees, Malawi News can reveal.

...as she marks 100 days in office

Malawi's president Joyce Banda and her People's Party led government clock 100 days in office tomorrow amid calls from the civil society and political commentators for her to declare her assets to the public to ensure transparency and accountability in her administration.

Petitioners on Section 65 will have to wait until the next meeting of Parliament for the Speaker to make a ruling.

Internal correspondence between the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director, Alex Nampota, and Bureau Secretary, Tokha Manyungwa, shows Nampota obtained financial advice to keep the money until the trip to London for a course materilaised.

Nearly 67 percent of the money Malawi expects to get from donors for development projects in the 2012/13 financial year will not pass through the government's auditing and accounting systems, making it impossible for the government to control it. And Malawi News under¬stands this has been the trend in the past.

The new broom at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has started sweeping clean. After inheriting the public broadcast¬er under a heavy financial burden, the new management has declared that no client will be getting services from the broadcast¬er for free, Malawi News has established.

President Joyce Banda has promised to cut on her foreign trips, saying she would now be delegating vice president Khumbo Kachali after intense criticisms that she has undertaken six travels in a space of two months since ascending to the presidency in April.