Society
21 January 2006 [19:56]
One more member of organized criminal gang led by Haji Magomedov, who committed a number of grave crimes in Zagatala-Balaken region in 2000-2002, was arrested and taken to Zagatala.
21 January 2006 [19:49]
The second periodic report of Azerbaijani government on "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" was reviewed in framework of 41st session of UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
21 January 2006 [16:14]
Azerbaijanis living in the United States on the anniversary of Bloody January called on the international community to commemorate this tragedy.
21 January 2006 [16:05]
Health Minister will participate in the work of WHO session in Geneva
21 January 2006 [15:57]
The State Committee on Statistics with the assistance of the American NGO "Macro" will set in mid-2006 to conducting researches of the demographic social statistics in Azerbaijan.
21 January 2006 [14:31]
The UNO World Food Program (WFP) will allocate $ 21 million to Azerbaijan.
21 January 2006 [14:29]
Lithuanian Caunas became a rival of Azerbaijnai Neftchi in the final match of the Commonwealth Cup in Moscow.
21 January 2006 [14:09]
According to Baku residents the problems with eletricity supplies started on January 21.
21 January 2006 [13:47]
The United Nations, under pressure from Pakistani diplomats, barred an interview with a rape victim from Pakistan while the country's prime minister was at U.N. headquarters, her sponsors said on Friday.
21 January 2006 [13:36]
Rescue teams kept up the search on Friday night for two miners missing for about 30 hours after a fire broke out at a mine in West Virginia, where an accident at another mine three weeks ago killed 12 people.
21 January 2006 [13:20]
An Aston Martin car driven by James Bond in Goldfinger and Thunderball has been sold in auction for more than $2m.
21 January 2006 [13:02]
Representatives of the Hungarian mass media will visit Azerbaijan shortly.
21 January 2006 [12:40]
In Iraq, a deadline set by the kidnappers of American journalist Jill Carroll has passed with no word on her fate.
21 January 2006 [05:17]
The Head of the State Land and Cartography Commitee Garib Mammadov made statements on municipalities' activity and not demarked area in the borderland with Georgia.
21 January 2006 [05:00]
"This is one of regular trickeries of Armenians. We did not want to decline the match."
21 January 2006 [04:36]
Deputy Chief of the Supreme Court Ingilab Nasirov stated that consultations on forming the structure of courts and other technical issues were conducted in the Court-Law Council at present.
21 January 2006 [04:23]
Azerbaijan Trade and Culture Center in the US organized a conference called "Historical assessment of the January 20, 1990 events in Azerbaijan" today.
21 January 2006 [04:02]
Municipality of Sabayel district brought the newspapers "New Azerbaijan municipality", "Alternative", "Press Post", "Euro Times" and "Daily Azerbaijan" to court.
21 January 2006 [03:49]
State border regime was breached in all directions last year. Violations of the borders were mainly fixed at the border of Georgia with Iran.
21 January 2006 [03:41]
There were 153 mentally sick people in the asylum while the fire happened, 12 of them burned in different level.
21 January 2006 [00:37]
The European Union's top court has upheld new requirements for airlines flying into or out of the EU to compensate air passengers who suffer from delays or cancelled flights, or overbooking - with food, lodging, and, in some cases, cash.
21 January 2006 [00:33]
It is boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before!
21 January 2006 [00:30]
It has been described as Russia's coldest winter in a generation and it is continuing to take a heavy toll.
21 January 2006 [00:20]
A Slovak military plane with 45 people on board crashed in northeastern Hungary, killing at least 16 people, interior ministry spokesman Tibor Dobson told, revising down a previous toll of 44.
20 January 2006 [17:29]
Elchin Guliyev gave interview to Space TV
20 January 2006 [17:26]
The arrangement of control places, the improvement of the legal base on security standards and global computerization were attributed as the urgent tasks for the CIS customs services at the 42nd meeting of the CIS Council of Customs Heads held in Strelne under St.-Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
20 January 2006 [16:47]
President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday pardoned 95 prisoners.
20 January 2006 [16:42]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev paid a tribute at the Cemetery of Martyrs in Baku on January 20.
20 January 2006 [16:36]
On January 20, people of Azerbaijan commemorate a tragedy, which became a turning point in the nation's struggle for independence from the former Soviet Union and one of the most tragic events in its recent history.
20 January 2006 [03:46]
The case of two students, former 4th-year student of History faculty of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University (ASPU) Namig Feyziyev and former 4th-year student of faculty of International Relations of Baku State University (BSU) Turan Aliyev, reported of being expelled from the universities for political conviction, was reviewed today.
20 January 2006 [03:06]
Delegation led by the head of State Commission on Student Admission Maleyka Abbaszade will be on visit to US from February 6 till February 17.
20 January 2006 [02:45]
Azerbaijani Delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov participates in the 41st session of the UN Committee on the Children's Rights started on January 9 in Geneva.
20 January 2006 [02:03]
Seventh round of monitoring conducted by Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources aimed at preventing spread of Bird flu in Azerbaijan has completed.
20 January 2006 [01:44]
A heavy fire happened in an asylum located in Suleyman Rustam Street 40 at about 20:15 yesterday.
20 January 2006 [00:56]
Specialists of hydrometeorology center of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources prepared atlas of flooding of littoral zones of Azerbaijan on scale 1: 25000.
20 January 2006 [00:11]
A US team of experts, currently investigating the deadly bird flu outbreak in Turkey, will also travel to neighboring Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, a US embassy spokesman said here on Thursday.
19 January 2006 [23:00]
RFU's official reaction to failure of match Neftchi-Pyunik
19 January 2006 [14:49]
The People of Azerbaijan mark the 16th anniversary of one of the most tragic events of modern history of Azerbaijan - the "Black January".
19 January 2006 [14:25]
Cooperation with the UN receives high estimation.
19 January 2006 [14:21]
Pyunik can be punished by the Commonwealth Cup Organizing Committee.
19 January 2006 [14:13]
According to the draw of the European Challenge Cup women’s handball tournament, in 1/8 final Azerbaijani "ABU" club will clash with Romanian "Tomis", Constantza, spokesman of the Azerbaijan Handball Federation announced.
19 January 2006 [13:39]
"Murad Aliyev, the resident of the Archivan village, the Astara region, who was wanted through Interpol, was arrested in Japan," Madat Guliyev, the head of the National Center of the organization.
19 January 2006 [05:16]
"It will stop snowing at the noontime tomorrow", - Umayra Taghiyeva, head of the Hydrological Forecasts Bureau of National Hydrometeorology Department, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources told.
19 January 2006 [05:11]
The Antimonopoly Policy Department of the Ministry of Economic Development began monitoring fulfillment of prohibitions fixed by the State Veterinary Service in connection with Bird flu danger in poultry and fowl sale stations.
19 January 2006 [04:32]
Level of the Kur has fallen by 5 cm in the territory of Sabirabad as the volume of water flowing from Mingechevir Water Reservoir was diminished.
19 January 2006 [04:26]
Newly formed commission members of Milli Majlis (MM) will renew the bill "On education".
19 January 2006 [03:43]
Measure dedicated to January 20 will be held in Azerbaijani embassy in Moscow on January 20.
19 January 2006 [03:30]
Some problems appeared due to first snow in Baku. Baku Mayor's Office has appealed to the residents with regard to it.
19 January 2006 [03:13]
Selling of fowl and feathers has been banned in Agdam region.
19 January 2006 [02:55]
Today trial of platoon deputy commander Chingiz Ismayilov was completed in the Military Court on Grave Crimes.
19 January 2006 [02:43]
The attestation of the officers working in the system of Defense Ministry (DM) will begin in early February.
19 January 2006 [02:24]
A meeting on conducting of prophylactic and anti-epidemic measures against Bird flu was held in Khanlar Execution Power.
18 January 2006 [21:28]
Preconceived opinions about Ramil Safarov, convicted of killing Armenian officer observed in several media organs manipulated by special services of foreign nations.
18 January 2006 [21:18]
The opposition students expelled from High Schools stopped their hunger strike action on the 21 day of the strike.
18 January 2006 [20:30]
Azeri club in the semifinal of Commonwealth Cup in Moscow will face Pyunik, Armenian champ.
18 January 2006 [17:37]
On the 19th of January the Government of Azerbaijan will report to UN about the rights of children in our country.
18 January 2006 [17:05]
The M.F.Akhundov Azerbaijan National Library hosted the international seminar on the subject Application of Informational Technologies in Librarianship, and Automation co-organized by the UNESCO National Commission on Azerbaijan and the country’s Ministry of Culture.
18 January 2006 [16:59]
The Azerbaijan vessel PTS-201, which got aground in the area of the Urdyuk cape, 25 km away from Bautino settlement, is owned by the private company, therefore, the Caspian Shipping Company (CSC) is not responsible for the incident.
18 January 2006 [15:17]
The bus with the Azerbaijani pilgrims got into the road accident tonight on the territory of Syria.
18 January 2006 [14:10]
The educational complex consisting of three buildings and covering the area of 10,300 square meters located in Ankara’s Batikend district was named after the Azerbaijan leader Heydar Aliyev.
18 January 2006 [04:40]
Azerbaijani Diasporas in foreign countries will commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 20 January tragedy by different ceremonies.
18 January 2006 [04:23]
Azerbaijani residents of Damya Gorarkhi village of Marneuli region of Georgia who are dissatisfied with land ownership have rallied to the center of region today.
18 January 2006 [04:09]
Bronze medallist in pneumatic pistol shooting in the Olympic Games in Athens Irada Ashumova succeeded in the first competition she contested in 2006. Our shooter won a silver medal in the first day of the international tournament in Luxembourg.
18 January 2006 [03:55]
The environmental hygiene mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) will pay a visit to Azerbaijan in February.
18 January 2006 [03:45]
Construction of 17 kilometers of the road has already been completed in the territory of Tovuz in the framework of the project of reconstruction of the Baku-Georgia border highway. Construction of rest 9 kilometers will be completed late in this year.
18 January 2006 [03:38]
90 Azerbaijani military men having served in the Peacekeeping Forces in Iraq and ended their military services returned to Azerbaijan last night.
18 January 2006 [03:33]
About 1000 residents of Khatinli, Chilovdaghli, Garakhanli and Gadirli villages of Tovuz marched towards the region center due to gas and electricity problems.
18 January 2006 [03:20]
48,8% or 592 thousand hectares of forests of our country are in the territory of Great Caucasus, 14,5% or 176 thousand hectares of Small Caucasus, 2,5% or 30 thousand hectares of Kur-Araz lowland, and 0,5% or 6 thousand hectares of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan.
18 January 2006 [02:59]
The 220 kilovolt "Mushfig" substation supplying a big part of the capital of the republic with electric energy and to be repaired at the expense of funds of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will be completely commissioned in 2007.
18 January 2006 [02:32]
A meeting was held on the initiative of head of Ganja Executive Power Eldar Azizov in connection with prophylactic and anti-epidemic measures against Bird flu pandemic.
18 January 2006 [02:23]
Appeal will be made on the decision of Nasimi district court for elongating arrest measure on Akif Muradverdiyev, ex-director of the administrative department of President’s Office for 4 more months.
18 January 2006 [02:03]
Officials of Binagadi Police Department arrested a resident of Shamakhi trying to rob the apartment of Canadian citizen.
17 January 2006 [22:10]
Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism in a statement made early today notes that numerous appeals received by the Ministry expressing concern with the "politicization" of the action and "the use of it by opposition media and some human rights activists against Azerbaijan."
17 January 2006 [19:58]
Azeri champion claimed the first place in Group B.
17 January 2006 [17:38]
"People can buy poultry products of the large local enterprises without any fear," Ismayil Hasanov, the head of the State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry, said to journalists on Tuesday.
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