Society
09 October 2009 [14:11]
09 October 2009 [13:42]
The head of Baku and All-Caspian Eparchy Alexander notes the high level of tolerance in Azerbaijan.
09 October 2009 [13:26]
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources examined modern water-purification facilities in Yevlakh region on Oct. 9, press-service of the ministry said.
09 October 2009 [13:11]
Jacques Rogge has been re-elected president of the International Olympic Committee for a final four-year term, AP reported.
09 October 2009 [12:46]
Under the grant program "Grass Roots and Human Security", the Japanese government is funding other six projects in the social sphere in Azerbaijan.
09 October 2009 [12:25]
The embassy of Russia in Azerbaijan has announced the third competition for young journalists and students of journalism in in the country, the embassy said.
09 October 2009 [11:50]
A car bomb blew up on Friday next to a bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 30 people, a provincial government minister said, Reuters reported.
09 October 2009 [11:35]
In the children's prisons, those who have committed crimes are not divided into into orphans and young people who grew up in a family, Chief of Healthy Life Style Department of the Azerbaijan Youth and Sports Ministry Narmina Bagirova said.
09 October 2009 [11:13]
Korean Education Exhibition will be held in Baku at the initiative of the Embassy of Korea in Azerbaijan on Oct. 20, Azerbaijan Education Ministry said.
09 October 2009 [10:59]
Armenian Armed Forces began military exercises in Uzundara area of Azerbaijan’s Agdam region on Oct. 9.
09 October 2009 [09:58]
System of passenger transport in Baku will undergo changes soon, said Samir Hasanov, Spokesperson for Bakisarnishinnaqliyyat, responsible for passenger transport in the capital.
09 October 2009 [09:38]
The Geology Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences intends to announce intellectual competition for young researchers, named “Development of Science and new accomplishments”, the Geology Institute said.
09 October 2009 [08:53]
Caucasian Muslims Office clarified the reduction of the Hajj quota and application of the age limit.
08 October 2009 [17:25]
Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II will visit Azerbaijan on Nov.6-7 to attend the 60th anniversary of the Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office (CMO) Sheik-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade, which will be celebrated in Baku soon.
08 October 2009 [16:41]
Bursa-based Turkish non-governmental organizations are going to distribute as many as 15,000 Azerbaijani flags before the football match between Turkish and Armenian national teams on Oct. 14 in sign of support to Azerbaijan.
08 October 2009 [16:24]
Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed," the Swedish Academy said, AP reported.
08 October 2009 [15:59]
The competition for the best scientific-research work in Arabic philology has completed.
08 October 2009 [15:15]
Senior official of the Azerbaijan State Committee for Problems of Family, Women and Children Aynur Karimova spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
08 October 2009 [14:06]
Azerbaijan's national football squad is in Switzerland to prepare for the upcoming Oct. 10 match against Liechtenstein in the qualifying round at the World Championship 2010.
08 October 2009 [13:49]
It is difficult to ban smoking in public places, chairman of the committee social policy of the Azerbaijani parliament said.
08 October 2009 [13:19]
Heavy rains that began last night caused great damage in Oguz region of Azerbaijan.
08 October 2009 [12:51]
More than 1.5 million people watched gigantic puppets parade in the German capital at the weekend as part of celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, AFP reported.
08 October 2009 [12:17]
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan has issued a statement on flood disaster in Hajigabul region, public relations department of the ministry said.
08 October 2009 [11:39]
Ukrainian authorities will restore monument to Azerbaijanis desecrated by vandals in Crimea, Ukrainian embassy in Azerbaijan said.
08 October 2009 [11:23]
Heavy rains in the Azerbaijani Hajigabul region (110 km outside Baku) have flooded nearly 800 homes.
08 October 2009 [11:08]
The Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Minister considers it necessary to increase soccer schools to develop football in the country.
08 October 2009 [09:55]
08 October 2009 [09:32]
08 October 2009 [08:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev inspected complete overhaul in capital`s garden near the State Philharmonic Hall on Oct. 7.
07 October 2009 [16:34]
The National Television and Radio Council of Azerbaijan will discuss the situation in local radios in its next meeting, said Chairman of the Council Nushiravan Maharramli at the meeting dedicated on the article “Azerbaijani air space: problems and duties” by Ramiz Mehdiyev, Chief of the Presidential Administration.
07 October 2009 [16:29]
Sevastopol law-enforcement bodies arrested two persons suspected of destroying the monument erected to the Azerbaijanis who were killed while liberating Crimea from fascists, chairman of Crimea regional organization of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Congress Rahim Humbatov said.
07 October 2009 [16:12]
Azerbaijani Press Council will expand cooperation with the OSCE and Council of Europe.
07 October 2009 [14:42]
American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."
07 October 2009 [14:07]
Number of people who immigrated to Azerbaijan is under constant control of the State Migration Service.
07 October 2009 [12:53]
Vitrages for the palace of the Georgian King Irakli II in Telavi were damaged due to frequent rains and needs be replaced immediately.
07 October 2009 [12:41]
The Azerbaijani embassy to Ukraine sent a diplomatic note to Ukrainian authorities about destruction of the monument to Azerbaijanis fell victims while liberating Sevastopol from fascists, Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev said on Oct. 7.
07 October 2009 [12:29]
The first world media summit will be held in Beijing on Oct. 8-10.
07 October 2009 [12:15]
Thanks to its user-driven translation program, Facebook, the largest global social networking website, is now available in Azerbaijani.
07 October 2009 [11:33]
The Azerbaijani Education Ministry plans to establish a Council on the evaluation of electronic educational resources.
07 October 2009 [09:33]
07 October 2009 [08:55]
Tunisians will not be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Muslim pilgrimage or Haj because of fears of the H1N1 virus, known also as swine flu, the government announced Tuesday, DPA reported.
06 October 2009 [17:54]
The Swiss Justice Ministry says it has rejected an appeal from Roman Polanski to be released from prison pending his possible extradition to the United States, AP reported.
06 October 2009 [17:16]
The admission to post-graduate studies has been stopped in Azerbaijan, President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Mahmud Karimov said.
06 October 2009 [15:45]
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith will share this year's Nobel Prize for physics, BBC reported.
06 October 2009 [13:42]
"The destruction of the monument to Azerbaijanis in Sevastopol is a very unexpected and sad event,” Chairman of the Congress of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Akif Gulmammadov said commenting on media reports claiming that the monument in the Crimea erected to Azerbaijanis who died for the liberation of the city in the Great Patriotic War had been destroyed.
06 October 2009 [13:28]
The International Islamic Culinary Festival kicked off in Baku as part of Baku –Islamic Culture Capital 2009.
06 October 2009 [11:53]
The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held a monitoring to study level of pollution of transboundary rivers.
06 October 2009 [09:55]
Caspian Sea Scientific Congress will he held in Iran soon.
06 October 2009 [09:43]
The Azerbaijani media will be provided with an opportunity to obtain information on courts' activities.
06 October 2009 [09:39]
05 October 2009 [16:30]
The German specialists hold workshops for the Azerbaijani football referees.
05 October 2009 [16:12]
Some 2, 710, 014 sq. m. of area was cleared from mines and unexploded ammunition in September, 2009.
05 October 2009 [15:58]
The Azerbaijani Serious Crimes Court has passed a sentence on persons charged with an attempt to blast Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan and Gabala Radar Station.
05 October 2009 [15:15]
U.S. scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Grader and Jack Szostak became laureates in medicine for research of telomerization - enzyme that can be a key for everlasting youth, Vesti reported.
05 October 2009 [14:14]
“We know that tuition fees have been increased in some private higher schools this year and unfortunately we cannot influence the size of tuition fees of private higher schools,” Education Minister Misir Mardanov told reporters.
05 October 2009 [13:58]
Number of AIDS patients increased in southern Lankaran, Astara, Masalli, Yardimli, Lerik, Jalilabad and Bilasuvar regions of Azerbaijan.
05 October 2009 [13:38]
Azerbaijani secondary and higher schools hold preparations for winter season, said Education Minister Misir Mardanov told reporters.
05 October 2009 [13:21]
October 5 is a World Day of Teachers.
05 October 2009 [12:49]
Chairman of the Social Policy Committee of the Azerbaijani parliament Musa Guliyev has arrived in Kyrgyzstan to take part in the 4th conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Working Group of the Central Asian Azerbaijan for Combating AIDS.
05 October 2009 [10:28]
Two Azerbaijanis were shot on head in Moscow, APA quotes gazeta.ru as reporting.
05 October 2009 [09:36]
03 October 2009 [10:44]
The first international television of Azerbaijan ATV International (ATV Int) will be on air on Oct. 5, editor-in-chief of news department of ATV Vagif Aydinoglu said.
03 October 2009 [09:56]
03 October 2009 [09:22]
US President Barack Obama congratulated Brazil for winning the bid Friday to hold the 2016 Summer Games shortly after returning from his failed effort in Copenhagen to convince Olympic officials that Chicago would have been the best host, dpa reported.
03 October 2009 [08:48]
Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach erupted in Samba dancing and joy on Friday after the Brazilian city won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games, bringing the world's biggest sporting event to South America for the first time, Reuters reported.
02 October 2009 [17:40]
Azerbaijan will pay compensation to local people in Hajigabul region for the damage caused by mudslides and floods after a heavy rainfall.
02 October 2009 [16:43]
Azerbaijani Press Council will debate granting transport privileges to journalists.
02 October 2009 [14:17]
Azerbaijan State University of Economics hosted the conference “Experience and prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijani and German universities” within the Azerbaijan-German Days of Higher Education.
02 October 2009 [13:04]
Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office (CMO) Sheik-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade will pay a visit to Tajikistan.
02 October 2009 [12:31]
A billionaire Canadian circus tycoon is on his way to the International Space Station, AP reported.
02 October 2009 [12:14]
The U.S. Army says an autopsy shows a soldier from Florida who died while at Fort Jackson in South Carolina passed away from pneumonia caused by the H1N1 flu virus, AP reported.
02 October 2009 [11:43]
The European Human Rights Court has passed two more resolutions on Azerbaijan.
02 October 2009 [11:27]
Unexploded shells were have been found in Hasangaya village of Azerbaijan’s Tartar region.
02 October 2009 [09:55]
02 October 2009 [09:33]
Sabayel district court has held hearing on case of imprisoned bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade.
Photo exhibition in Hague highlights Azerbaijani landmine victims
A war memorial in Wisconsin removed a tribute to General Douglas MacArthur
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