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15 January 2006 [15:37]
Neftchi FC celebrated victory in the first game of "Commonwealth Cup" against Tajikistan representative Vaksh.
15 January 2006 [15:32]
15 January 2006 [15:24]
The ruler of U.S. ally Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, died on Sunday at the age of 78 after a long illness, and the country's ailing crown prince is set to take over as emir of this major Gulf oil producer.
15 January 2006 [15:08]
A capsule containing dust collected from stars and comets has landed on Earth after a seven-year space mission. A capsule containing dust collected from stars and comets has landed on Earth after a seven-year space mission.
14 January 2006 [20:54]
In accordance with the results of the laboratory research conducted by the Lankaran Veterinary Service, no signs of virus are observed in the region.
14 January 2006 [03:05]
Azerbaijani section will be opened in New York Museum of Natural History in 2006.
14 January 2006 [03:02]
The commission investigating the reasons of the crash of the AN-140-100 airplane taken off from Baku to Aktau is working at several versions.
14 January 2006 [02:58]
One more Azerbaijani pilgrims going on Hajj is in bad health.
14 January 2006 [02:56]
An airplane marked “Airbus A-319” of the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will be brought to Baku late in February, early in March this year.
14 January 2006 [02:46]
Construction of 13 new settlements for 3860 internally displaced families living in refugee townships and wagons which has been started since the beginning of the past year will be completed in April.
14 January 2006 [02:42]
Prophylactic measures are still taken against bird flu in Zagatala.
14 January 2006 [02:22]
A joint valuation mission consisting of the representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), “Vishnevskaya-Rastropovich” Foundation, UN Children’s Fund, US Agency for International Development (USAID) and US Center for Disease Control (CDC) will come to Azerbaijan on January 23.
14 January 2006 [02:20]
By the order of Minister of Culture Polad Bulbuloglu, chief and art director of Azerbaijan State National Academic Dram Theater Alabbas Gadirov was dismissed.
14 January 2006 [02:17]
Resident of Chayrud village of Lerik which is known as a land of long-livers Fazil Azim Rzayev celebrated his 108th birthday.
14 January 2006 [02:16]
14 January 2006 [02:02]
Republic Hygiene and Epidemiology Center (RHEC) will conduct unannounced investigations in the territory of the republic in order to strengthen the control over selling of fowl products in connection with “Bird Flu”.
13 January 2006 [19:01]
13 January 2006 [13:37]
An organ music party will be held at the Baku Music Academy on March 17 on the initiative of the Union of Azerbaijani Composers.
13 January 2006 [13:24]
Woman volleyball club AzerReyl arrived in Istanbul to hold final preparations for the forthcoming match of the 10th tournament of the group stage of the Champions League against Gunesh Vagifbank.
13 January 2006 [13:21]
There is no Azerbaijani among the victims died in a crush while implementing the rituals of Hajj in Mecca.
13 January 2006 [09:04]
Chirag oil production reached 7m tons in 2005
13 January 2006 [08:58]
25 representatives of tax authorities were dismissed in 2005 for giving way to irregularities, the Ministry of Taxes press-service said on Thursday.
13 January 2006 [05:27]
State Committee on Work with Azerbaijanis Living in Foreign Countries (SCALFC) plans to start Azerbaijani Days in Hungary together with Embassy of Azerbaijan in this country.
13 January 2006 [05:11]
As a result of confusion appeared in the ceremony of throwing stones at pillars representing Satan more than 300 people died.
13 January 2006 [05:05]
International conference on bird flue will be held in Beijing.
13 January 2006 [04:24]
The “AzEuroTel” Joint Enterprise (JE) is starting to provide Internet access services on ADSL technologies on speed from 64 Kbit to 512 Kbit in the unlimited access order.
13 January 2006 [04:21]
The price of the Internet in Baku is cheaper than elsewhere in the CIS, the chairman of the Azerbaijan Internet Society, Galib Gurbanov, told the “Internet in Azerbaijan: demise or development” news conference at the International Press Club Wednesday.
13 January 2006 [04:16]
The Azerbaijan Humanitarian Assistance Programme (AHAP) costing $57 million funded by the United States Agency for International Development since 1998 and administered by the Mercy Corps organization will draw to a close on January 13 this year.
13 January 2006 [04:13]
European Union has imposed a ban on fowl exports from Azerbaijan.
13 January 2006 [04:08]
The concerns over the bird flu threat are still high in Azerbaijan, although no cases have been registered so far, unlike neighboring countries.
12 January 2006 [22:15]
“Over 50 drivers of the Baku public transport were dismissed as a result of carried out check-up in Baku,” Khaleddin Namazov, the deputy chief of the Transport Department of the Baku Executive Power, told Trend.
12 January 2006 [22:01]
Holly Hajj pilgrimage is coming to an end.
12 January 2006 [21:40]
The aids will cover at least 30 per cent of Azeri population.
12 January 2006 [20:40]
Rudolf Ivanov presents “Defense of Bayazet: the truth and the lie” in Azerbaijan.
12 January 2006 [20:30]
The exhibition of posters entitled “Discover Japan through Contemporary Posters” will open on 16 January at the Art and Exhibition Salon of the Culture Ministry of Azerbaijan.
12 January 2006 [16:27]
On Wednesday the Health Ministry held a meeting dedicated to the preventive and the anti-epidemic measures in relation to prevention of penetration of bird flu to Azerbaijan.
12 January 2006 [11:24]
British Council holds Old New Baku photo competition on the occasion of Youth Day on 2 February.
12 January 2006 [11:12]
Weather is forecasted to be unstable and cold in the second ten-day of January.
12 January 2006 [10:54]
Arabian film festival will be held in Baku on the initiative of Cinema Department acting under auspicious of Baku Executive Power.
12 January 2006 [10:33]
Madat Guliyev, the head of the Bureau told Trend about it.
12 January 2006 [10:27]
Turkish megastar Tarkan is expected to visit Baku in June.
12 January 2006 [09:35]
In 2006 the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry intends to expand the area under the forest regeneration up to 10,000 hectares.
12 January 2006 [09:30]
A press-conference dedicated to the beginning of the “Netty-2006” Azerbaijan National Internet Prize was held yesterday.
12 January 2006 [09:15]
The US President George bush sent congratulation message to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the holy Gurban holiday.
12 January 2006 [09:05]
592.603 sq. meter territory was cleansed from mines and unexploded military supplies. 104 mines and unexploded supplies were found and rendered harmless.
06 January 2006 [12:11]
On Thursday at 00.40am [local time] the employees of the Coastguard Service of the Azerbaijani State Border Service (ASBS) saved a crewman of the fishing boat belonged to Astrakhan, Russia.
06 January 2006 [11:57]
“There is no Azerbaijani pilgrim among the victims of the building collapse in Mecca.
06 January 2006 [11:16]
International Chess Federation FIDE announced the first rating list of 2006.
28 December 2005 [10:09]
Divers of the frontier troops the day before yesterday managed to find the black box containing flight data recorder of the Azerbaijan Airlines’ (AZAL) AN-140 crashed on Saturday near Baku killing all 23 people including 8 foreign citizens on board, AZAL said.
28 December 2005 [09:49]
The frontier-guards found military supplies near Samur bridge of Russia-Azerbaijan frontier while checking the border this morning.
28 December 2005 [09:48]
230 medals were gained by Azerbaijani sportsmen at the international competitions in 2005.
28 December 2005 [09:47]
“The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry studies the impact of the Gabala Radio Location Station (RLS) on environment,” Husseyn Baghirov, the Ecology and Natural resources Minister, stated on Tuesday, Trend reports.
28 December 2005 [09:46]
2876 traffic accident were registered during 11 months this year. 942 people died and 3337 were injured in these accidents.
28 December 2005 [09:42]
?bout 354 kg narcotics, psychotropic matters and precursors as well as 27.144 kg heroin, 42.271 kg opium, 48.282 hashish, 227.345 kg marihuana, 11936 pills and 90 ampoules psychotropic matters and 8.822 kg acid anhydrides were removed from the illegal turnover within January-November this year.
28 December 2005 [09:40]
World heavy athletics champion Nizami Pashayev was recognized as the best Azerbaijani sportsman on the results of 2005.
24 December 2005 [14:06]
18 passengers and 5 members of the crew died as a result of a jet crash near Baku (Nardaran village, outskirts Baku) on Friday at 22:27pm [local hours].
24 December 2005 [09:53]
Lawyer Adil Ismayilov, representative of parents of officer of Azerbaijani Army Ramil Safarov who is accused of murdering Armenian officer Gurgen Markaryan held a press conference yesterday.
24 December 2005 [09:31]
The roundtable has been held on 23 December in Baku on mechanisms for funding the initial medical services.
24 December 2005 [09:27]
Radiation problems Institute of National Academy of Science launched examination to study the influence of Gabala Radar Station on the environment.
24 December 2005 [09:15]
Distribution of social aids to families of scanty means will be delayed. APA was given this information by the director of the addressed social aid sector of the Ministry of Labour and Social protection of Population (MLSPP) Vafa Mutallibova.
20 December 2005 [10:36]
In 2005 - around 3,500 students from 41 countries of the world study at the Azerbaijani universities against 1,500 students from 35 countries in 2004.
20 December 2005 [10:34]
Follow-up meeting on the implementation of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities was held in Baku yesterday.
19 December 2005 [18:04]
Construction of a fiber optic cable from Ali Bayramli to Sabirabad will be completed till the end of this year.
19 December 2005 [10:49]
Elmira Suleymanova, the Azerbaijani Ombudsman, received on Saturday the Director of the UNESCO Department for education policy and strategy, Mirasgar Husseyn, and a specialist on education, Dendev Badarchi.
17 December 2005 [16:03]
The international Jazz-Mugam festival dedicated to the memory of Vagif Mustafazade, the Azerbaijani pianist, will be held at "Mir" concert hall in Moscow on December 15-19.
17 December 2005 [10:17]
President Ilham Aliyev signed yesterday a decree establishing Ministry of Emergency Situations. The State Control over Safety in Industry and Mining Control Committee, Committee of Material Resources at the Cabinet of Ministers have been cancelled, their functions , their offices and subordinate organizations were transfered under the new ministry.
16 December 2005 [18:45]
Today at 11:21 a.m. a private German Cessna-525 jet aircraft flying on Frankfurt- Istanbul- Yerevan- Ashgabat- Kabul route made an emergency landing at the Baku Heydar Aliyev airport.
16 December 2005 [18:39]
The Azerbaijani Economic Development Ministry and the Asian Development Bank signed $500,000 grant agreement "Towns alliance". The program is jointly financed by the UNDP and Israeli embassy, the UNDP Baku Office told Trend.
16 December 2005 [18:11]
The Cabinet of Ministers is about to issue a decision on licensing of alcoholic drinks and tobacco products. The minister Ismat Abbasov reminding that from now on the Ministry of Agriculture will engage in licensing of alcoholic drinks and tobacco noted that this decision will allow clearing the market off fake goods with poor quality.
16 December 2005 [11:05]
The operator of the energy distribution networks of Baku and Sumgayit "Barmek Azerbaijan" on Thursday started measures against debtors in northeastern regions.
16 December 2005 [10:47]
The term of investigation conducted on Haji Mammadov, ex-chief of Main Crime Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and members of his gang was prolonged again.
16 December 2005 [10:27]
Yesterday in Budapest a court heard judgment of the third medical examination of Ramil Safarov. Experts unanimously declared that Azerbaijani officer unconsciously committed the crime under an influence of stress he had in childhood due to the Karabakh war.
15 December 2005 [19:32]
"The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural resources Ministry addressed to the State Veterinary Service to consider raising of the ban imposed on fowling due to bird flu," said Sadagat Mammadova, head of a division in the Ministry of Ecology.
15 December 2005 [10:31]
Sheikh of All Caucasus Allahshukur Pashazadeh has been receiving congratulations on 25th anniversary of holding the post for some months already. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexei II visited Baku to congratulate Sheikh and Cardinal of Catholic Church visited Baku and congratulated Allahshukur Pashazadeh on behalf of Rome Pope Benedict XVI.
14 December 2005 [16:59]
State Committee on work with Internally Displaced People and Refugees appealed to local health organization to take precaution measures to prevent jaundice spread among IDPs settled in Barda.
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense holds ceremony dedicated to memory of martyrs
President Ilham Aliyev inaugurates Zangilan & Shayifli hydroelectric power plants [PHOTOS]
First VP Mehriban Aliyeva shares Instagram post on Zangilan trip [PHOTOS / VIDEO]
Deputy PM: Russia Collaborates with Azerbaijan&Central Asia on North-South Transit Corridor
Access to Kirants village of Tavush province in Armenia temporarily restricted
Foundation stone was laid for Karkhulu village in Jabrayil [PHOTOS]
Digital state land cadastre development advances in Turkmenistan