Deputy Foreign Ministers of Tajikistan and India discuss issues of cooperation

AKIPRESS.COM - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan Farrukh Sharifzoda held a meeting with Deputy Minister of External Affairs of India Sibi George on the sidelines of the 3rd International Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security on...

Tajikistan and Qatar consider expanding cooperation in education sector

AKIPRESS.COM - Ambassador of Tajikistan to Qatar Nurmurod Mahmadali held a meeting with Minister of Education and Higher Education of Qatar Lulwa bint Rashid Al-Khater and Director General of the Qatar Fund for Development Fahad Hamad Al-Sulaiti...

India winds up presence at airbase in Tajikistan

New Delhi: The Indian military has wound up its presence at a strategic airbase in Tajikistan, where it first deployed personnel while supporting the erstwhile Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, after the lapse of a bilateral agreement, people...

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan finalize tri-border point agreement.

Members of the Legislative Chamber have passed a bill ratifying the treaty on the point where the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan meet. The document has been sent to the Senate for consideration. The treaty was signed on March 31,...

Tajikistan’s agricultural output grows by 8%: cotton booms, silk declines

Tajikistan's agriculture sector has posted significant growth over the first nine months of 2025, with a notable surge in cotton production and a downturn in silk output, according to official data released by the Agency for Statistics under the...

Tajikistan and Iran strengthen financial ties at ‘Bridge of Trust and Development’ forum in Dushanbe

Tajikistan hosted the international forum “Bridge of Trust and Development” on October 25, bringing together high-level delegations from Tajikistan and Iran to deepen cooperation in the financial sector and explore joint initiatives in sustainable...

Tajikistan to launch first national AI education initiative in partnership with UNICEF and zypl.ai

09:52, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus Tajikistan has announced the launch of Project Soro, the country’s first large-scale initiative to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its national education system. According to press release issued by Ai...

Tajikistan strengthens national response to online recruitment fraud targeting labor migrants

14:28, todayAuthor: Press release by IOM Tajikistan The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population of Tajikistan,...

India wraps up presence at Tajikistan's Ayni airbase

India has wrapped up its operation at a strategic air base in Tajikistan's Ayni following the lapse of a bilateral agreement, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The agreement between the Indian and Tajik governments for the...

Tajikistan to build first hydropower green data center in GBAO’s Darvoz district

10:59, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus Tajikistan is set to construct its first fully hydropower data center in the Darvoz district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), marking a major leap forward in sustainable AI infrastructure in Central...

Tajikistan launches Area AI — the world’s first special AI Zone

10:06, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus Tajikistan has officially launched Area AI, the world’s first Special Artificial Intelligence Zone, marking a major milestone in the country’s ambition to become a global hub for responsible AI innovation, says press...

Massive Glacier Collapse Reported on Mount Ismoil Somoni in Tajikistan

A large section of glacier broke away from Mount Ismoil Somoni in Tajikistan’s Tajikabad district on October 25, according to Asia-Plus, citing the Committee for Emergency Situations (CoES). The incident occurred around 11:00 a.m. near the village...

Tajikistan approves new land development program for 2026-2030

The Government of Tajikistan has approved a new state program aimed at the development of new agricultural lands and the restoration of degraded farmland for the period 2026-2030. The program envisions the reclamation of 11,800 hectares of new...

Russian Ombudsperson visits penal colony in Tajikistan, meets with jailed Russian citizens

14:55, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner, Ms. Tatyana Moskalkova, has visited a correctional facility in Tajikistan, where she met with Russian nationals serving prison sentences and assessed their conditions. According to...

Tajikistan Shapes A Course For The Future

UN missions attend "Threads of Tradition" a Immersive interactive event about Tajikistan in New York, May 2025 Melik Kaylan Readers of this column know that Central Asia has been a particular focus in recent years. The region took on added...

Iranian president and Tajik interior minister discuss security cooperation

10:29, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Tajikistan’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Ramazon Rahimzoda, yesterday held high-level talks in Tehran on strengthening bilateral cooperation in security, regional stability,...

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

New Delhi: India no longer operates the strategically important Ayni air base in Tajikistan that it had helped develop and run since 2002. While reports of its closure came out Tuesday, it is learnt that the development took place in 2022. Sources...

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Five years of deadly earthquakes in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Reuters 03 November, 2025, 11:05 am Last modified: 03 November, 2025, 11:37 am A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, just months...

Factbox-Afghanistan, Pakistan have been hit by a spate of quakes in recent years

(Reuters) -A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, just months after a quake and strong aftershocks killed more than 2,200 people at...