Society
30 September 2009 [10:08]
29 September 2009 [16:51]
Kazakhstan has introduced a piece of legislation allowing transgender operations, Interfax reported.
29 September 2009 [14:44]
Buses advertising tourism potential of Azerbaijan run in Seoul, the capital of Korea.
29 September 2009 [13:39]
29 September 2009 [13:12]
Azerbaijani national Polad Sirajov is among 75 prisons to be released from Guantanamo soon, APA reports quoting the Associated Press.
29 September 2009 [12:11]
The tender commission of the Azerbaijani Committee on Architecture and Town Building is about to complete summing up results of the tender on development of the Regional Development Program of Greater Baku, committee's senior official Jahangir Gojayev said.
29 September 2009 [10:43]
The Health Ministry has issued more than 162,000 health-e-cards, Deputy Director of the Health Ministry Information Department Jabrayil Asadzade said.
29 September 2009 [09:52]
We present our readers a photo session of animals in the Baku Zoo.
29 September 2009 [09:18]
28 September 2009 [17:42]
Prospects of cooperation will be discussed at the second meeting of the joint tourism committee between Greece and Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism said.
28 September 2009 [13:27]
Heavy rains in south-western Azerbaijan have caused floods.
28 September 2009 [13:19]
Azerbaijani wrestlers are leading for all kinds of wrestling in the world championships in Herning, Denmark.
28 September 2009 [12:55]
Over 20 villages have been flooded in the Azerbaijani southern region of Masalli.
28 September 2009 [10:49]
Head of the Norway-Azerbaijan Youth Organization Ramil Aliyev spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
28 September 2009 [10:26]
Azerbaijan`s Greco-Roman wrestler Farid Mansurov weighing in at 66 kg has claimed gold medal in the world championship in Herning, Denmark, bringing the country`s medal haul to ten.
28 September 2009 [09:59]
The Islamic republic of Iran has successfully carried out the second stage of its military drill dubbed "The Great Prophet IV", Press TV reported.
26 September 2009 [12:12]
26 September 2009 [11:47]
Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry is holding a board meeting.
26 September 2009 [11:42]
A presentation ceremony of medallions dedicated to national leader Heydar Aliyev took place at the International Mugham Center on Sept. 25.
26 September 2009 [11:38]
The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held a community work day on shore of the Caspian Sea as part of the Caspian Week.
26 September 2009 [10:39]
Ertugrul Osman - the would-be sultan known in Turkey as the "last Ottoman" - has died in Istanbul at the age of 97, BBC reported.
26 September 2009 [09:56]
26 September 2009 [09:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva visited a newly-reconstructed Azerbaijan State Museum of Arts named after Rustam Mustafayev on Sept. 25.
26 September 2009 [08:51]
Work is underway to establish Inspectorate General of Armed Forces under Azerbaijani President, Azerbaijani President’s aide for military affairs Lieutenant-General Vahid Aliyev said.
25 September 2009 [15:44]
25 September 2009 [13:44]
Flood, caused by heavy rains in the Hajigabul region of Azerbaijan (110 km outside Baku) inflicted damage worth million manat to region's center.
25 September 2009 [13:33]
Chairman of the Czech Senate Přemysl Sobotka on Sept. 25 at the Baku Slavic University (BSU) presented awards to two Azerbaijani children for participation in the International Children's Exhibition of Fine Arts in Lidice.
25 September 2009 [12:37]
"We have received applications to provide security of educational institutions in Baku and other towns of the republic and this process will continue," Chief of the Central Security Department of Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry, Major-General Madat Guliyev said.
25 September 2009 [12:28]
Jews in Azerbaijan have always resided in peace and harmony with representatives of different nationalities and religions, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated in a meeting with the U.S. Jewish community, the Foreign Ministry said.
25 September 2009 [10:51]
The State Border Service of Azerbaijan has begun last round of large-scale maritime exercises.
25 September 2009 [10:35]
The Azerbaijani Transport Ministry has begun to impose fines (200 to 1,000 manat) on public buses that stop in a wrong place.
25 September 2009 [10:03]
25 September 2009 [09:39]
On Sept. 24, the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at Azerbaijani troops from areas in Khojavand region at 13:20-13:30 and near the Gulustan village of the Goranboy region at 16:50-17:15.
25 September 2009 [09:12]
An event on integration of emigrants into the German society was held in German Azerbaijanis’ Coordination Center in Berlin, the State Committee for Diaspora said.
24 September 2009 [17:41]
Universities of Azerbaijan and Germany will mull the prospects of cooperation in Baku on Oct. 1 to 3.
24 September 2009 [17:28]
Azerbaijan State Committee for Religious Associations Deputy Chairman Elchin Asgarov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
24 September 2009 [15:48]
The Muslims of Russia in the fateful moments have always been together, and there is unity among Muslims of the Caucasus in Russia and the CIS as a whole, Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board Sheikhulislam Allahshukur Pashazade said at the conference "Russia & Islamic world: partnership for stability" in Moscow.
24 September 2009 [15:32]
“I haven’t made any statement about closing of state-run newspapers at the meeting with Bengt Braun”, Ali Hasanov, Chief of the Public Policy Department of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, said.
24 September 2009 [14:21]
Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) has identified a list of referees of the international category to be sent to FIFA.
24 September 2009 [13:23]
President of Czech Republic`s Senate Premysl Sobotka has visited today the Alley of Honors to revere memory of the national leader, founder of the modern Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev.
24 September 2009 [12:17]
Azerbaijan and Estonia have signed an agreement on cooperation in the sphere of information and communication technologies (ICT).
24 September 2009 [11:48]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of a new road junction on the Babak Avenue in Baku on Sept. 24.
24 September 2009 [11:33]
Azerbaijani female wrestler Maria Stadnik (48 kg) has won a gold medal in the world championship in Denmark after beating Russian Larisa Goryak in the final.
24 September 2009 [10:57]
On Sept. 24, six tanks of the train with black oil, heading from the Dubendi port to the Georgian port of Poti, derailed in the Keshla town of Baku, said Nadir Azmammadov, the Spokesman of the Azerbaijan Railways.
24 September 2009 [10:31]
24 September 2009 [08:57]
24 September 2009 [08:44]
Azermarka company of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies has introduced a postage stamp dedicated to 100th anniversary of the first Azerbaijani female pilot Leyla Mammadbayova, the ministry said.
23 September 2009 [17:53]
Saudi Arabia opened its first co-educational university on Wednesday, a high-tech campus with massive funds which reformers hope will spearhead change in the Islamic state.
23 September 2009 [14:31]
Iranian police have warned shopkeepers not to display female mannequins without a hijab, or showing bodily curves, Irna news agency reports.
23 September 2009 [13:28]
An Azerbaijani court has held a preparatory meeting on the case of the chief editor who is charged with hooliganism and blackmail.
23 September 2009 [12:38]
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) President, academician Mahmoud Karimov will leave for Antalya, Turkey on Sept. 24, ANAS official Web site said.
23 September 2009 [12:17]
The products labeled in the Armenian language were revealed in the southern region of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Patents said.
23 September 2009 [11:59]
A total of 35 chess players are leading at the "Baku Open-2009" chess tournament after the two rounds.
23 September 2009 [11:05]
Baku is considered a city of winds. But recently it became also a city of fountains.
We offer our readers enjoy the fountains of Baku.
23 September 2009 [10:42]
Azerbaijani wrestlers won two more medals - Zelimkhan Huseynov (60 kg) took silver, and Sharif Sharif ov (84 kg) - bronze.
23 September 2009 [09:58]
Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board Allahshukur Pashazade will participate in the international conference “Russia and Islamic World: Cooperation for Development” to be held in Moscow on Sept. 24, the Caucasus Muslims Board said in a statement.
23 September 2009 [09:49]
23 September 2009 [09:15]
The military plane crash during the parade in Tehran killed two people, Al Jazeera website reported.
23 September 2009 [08:21]
The board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has elected Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova as the agency's new director, VOA news reported.
22 September 2009 [11:32]
Azerbaijani Member of Parliament and historian Fazail Ibrahimli spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
22 September 2009 [11:10]
Railway traffic from Azerbaijan to Russia, which had been suspended due to erosion of rail as a result of torrential rains, was restored, Azerbaijan Railways JSC Spokesman, Nadir Azmammadov told Trend Capital on Sept. 22.
21 September 2009 [12:43]
21 September 2009 [12:28]
The member of the Azerbaijani Parliament Ganira Pashayeva and Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova visited a military unit in the Tovuz region of the country on the occasion of Ramadan holiday.
21 September 2009 [10:59]
The bodies of Ukrainian and Azerbaijani citizens with stab wounds were found in Moscow yesterday, the law enforcement agencies told Interfax.
21 September 2009 [10:34]
Secret tapes have emerged of Michael Jackson describing his brothers as "lazy moaners" and angrily criticising other members of his close family, sky.com reported.
21 September 2009 [09:22]
Heavy rains have flooded hundreds of homes and streets in central southern regions in Azerbaijan.
21 September 2009 [08:57]
President Barack Obama says the first family will follow the rules like every one else on the swine flu vaccine.
19 September 2009 [12:32]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev ends a trip to country's Guba, Gusar regions on Sept. 18.
19 September 2009 [10:25]
19 September 2009 [09:37]
Grain is being purchased from local farmers for the State Grain Fund, Azerbaijani Emergency Situations Ministry Kamaladdin Heydarov said.
19 September 2009 [08:47]
Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan held "Caspian-2009" exercises in the territory of Sabail district of Baku on Sept. 18.
18 September 2009 [15:25]
A shooting took place between Azerbaijani National Security Ministry officers and smugglers on border of Azerbaijan-Russia border on Sept. 18.
18 September 2009 [13:07]
Visa visa should be simplified for EU partners, but it should not be canceled fully, European Neighborhood Policy Office Administrator Giovanni Cremonini said in a news conference in Baku on Sept, 18.
18 September 2009 [12:39]
The conference of the heads of the emergency situations agencies of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Baku has adopted a declaration.
18 September 2009 [12:07]
The Caucasus Muslims Board Chairman Sheik-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan on Ramadan holiday, the Board said.
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