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One more cement plant has been launched into operation by Mohir Cement L. L. C. An official opening ceremony of the plant that took place in Khatlon’s Jaloliddini-Balkhi district yesterday was attended by President Emomali Rahmon. asiaplustj.info »
Officials at Russia's Ministry of Education say the return of Tajik students to universities in Russia remains on hold due to coronavirus restrictions. Deputy Director of the Department for International Cooperation at Russia’s Education Ministry, Mrs. asiaplustj.info »
Within the framework of its co-operation between Switzerland and Tajikistan, the Swiss Government represented by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (hereinafter referred to as SECO) provides financial assistance on a grant basis for the construction of transmission line Khorog-Sebzor, Component 1.4 of the Pamir Private Power Project III. asiaplustj.info »
The draft medium-term development program of Tajikistan designed for 2021-2025 was discussed at a roundtable in Dushanbe on March 18. According to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MoEDT), representatives of relevant ministries and agencies, development partners and experts as well as representatives of civil society participated in the discussion. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan’s budget has received more than 9 million U.S. dollars less than it was originally planned due to reduction in non-tax revenues. Over the reporting period, a total volume of the country’s budget has amounted to some 3.536 billion somonis (equivalent to 313 million U.S. asiaplustj.info »
The price of the most sought-after grade of gasoline in Tajikistan – 92-octane gasoline – is expected to rise to 9. 00 somonis (TJS) per liter in April. Since early March, prices have risen on average 16. asiaplustj.info »
Being in line with the strategic goal of the Republic of Tajikistan in ensuring energy security and development of internal and external energy infrastructure (electrical networks and substations) as one of its top priorities in the National Development Strategy 2030, JICA supported the construction and rehabilitation of two substations in Dushanbe, which are directly contributing to achieving asiaplustj.info »
“Tajikistan will not refuse the AstraZeneca vaccine, we welcome it,” Tajik Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Population, Samariddin Alizoda told reporters in Dushanbe on March 18. asiaplustj.info »
Police have detained a woman suspected of killing a 7-year-old boy. Muhsinjon Muhammadi, a spokesman for the Dushanbe Police Department, says a 53-year-old Muborak Abdurahmonova has been detained in Dushanbe after eight days of searching and she is now custody. Recall, the tragedy took place in Dushanbe on March 5. asiaplustj.info »
On March 17, 2021, a virtual trilateral meeting was held between Tajikistan, the United States and Afghanistan at the ministerial level, according to the Tajik MFA information department. asiaplustj.info »
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Only one Japanese company has expressed interest in participating in rehabilitation of the Qizilqala-Bokhtar section of the highway connecting Dushanbe and Bokhtar, the capital of the Khatlon province. asiaplustj.info »
The EastFruit team sums up the results of 2020 for Tajikistan regarding the prospects for developing the fruit and vegetable business. The year was reportedly very unusual: unprecedented price fluctuations, unpredictable logistics, closed borders even for goods, and unusual weather conditions created many problems for farmers and other market participants. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports say the report on the results of work carried out by the Accounts Chamber of Russia in 2020 states that Russia may face the risk of a repeat of the 2018 fuel crisis. The auditors reportedly note that the rise in fuel prices in May 2018 forced to take emergency measures. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan has lifted practically all restrictions related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-15), except limits for weddings. Meanwhile, some restaurants owners and wedding organizers consider that the Standing Committee on COVID-19 Response just forgot about it. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan’s electricity deliveries supplies to the neighboring have increased by 90. 2 percent compared to the same period last year. In January-February this year, Tajikistan has supplied US$7. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, inflation in Tajikistan’s consumer goods sector has stood at 1. 4 percent, which is 0. 4 percent higher than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Speaking at the media briefing on March 15, the World health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in particular, noted that since the last press conference on Friday (February 12), several more countries have suspended the use of AstraZeneca vaccines as a precautionary measure, after reports of blood clots in people who had received the vaccine from two batches asiaplustj.info »
The Vatican has said that priests cannot bless same-sex unions and that such blessings are not valid The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, the Vatican office responsible for doctrine said on March 15, according to the BBC . asiaplustj.info »
One more private insurance company – DS Sughurta LLC – has been granted to operate in Tajikistan, bringing a total number of insurance companies operating in the country to 19. According to the press center of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT), the company has got the right to engage in both compulsory and voluntary insurance in Tajikistan during five years. asiaplustj.info »
Co-chaired by Tajik Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Abdurahmon Abdurahmonzoda and Kazakh Deputy Minister of Trade and Integration Kairat Torebayev, a meeting of the Tajik-Kazakh Joint Working Group on Mutual Increase in Trade took place in Dushanbe on March 15. asiaplustj.info »
In addition to a sudden spike in gasoline prices, residents of regions in Tajikistan are currently experiencing an acute shortage of this petroleum product. Residents of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) and the Sughd province have complained about the lack of the most popular gasoline – a 92-octane gasoline. asiaplustj.info »
On the occasion of the Navrouz festival, which is marked on March 21, gushtingiri (traditional Tajik jacket wrestling). competitions will take place at the Navrouzgoh complex (Dushanbe hippodrome) on March 20 and 21. asiaplustj.info »
Co-chaired by Tajik First Deputy Prime Minister, Davlatali Said and Kazakh Vice-Premier, Roman Sklyar, the next meeting of the Tajik-Kazakh Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation will take place here on March 16, a source within the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview. asiaplustj.info »
The next meeting of the Tajik-Kyrgyz commission for delimitation and demarcation of the mutual border is expected to take place in the Tajik northern city of Guliston on March 16. asiaplustj.info »
On March 11, 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Tajikistan hosted a Comprehensive Dialogue between the United Nations and the Government of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
The U.S. death rate increased by 15 percent last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the deadliest year in recorded U.S. history, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will announce, according to two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter. asiaplustj.info »
From March 15 through March 25, members of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) will go to the regions to meet with their voters to explain them president’s address to the parliament. asiaplustj.info »
Afghan high-ranking politician Mohammad Mirza Katawazai, who found himself at the center of a scandal in Tajikistan involving US$15 million in cash and some 90 kilograms of gold bars seized from smugglers at the Dushanbe airport in November last year, was relieved of his post of Vice-Speaker of the Wolosi Jirga (Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament). asiaplustj.info »
Members of Tajikistan’s lower chamber (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament have unanimously voted for ratification of an agreement between the Government of Tajikistan and the World Bank on providing additional 36. asiaplustj.info »
New garbage removal rates have been introduced in Dushanbe. Beginning on March 1, the garbage removal rates in the Tajik capital rose on average 20 percent. New garbage removal rates in Dushanbe’s districts differ from each other depending on remoteness from the city dump. In Firdavsi district : new garbage removal rates are 3. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan marks the Tajik Press Day today. On this occasion, a ceremonial meeting is currently taking place at the National Library of Tajikistan in Dushanbe. The event is organized by Tajik Journalist’s Union and the Ministry of Culture of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
By government’s decrees all deputy heads of the Emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan were replaced, according to the Tajik president’s official website. Perspective young specialists were reportedly appointed to these positions. asiaplustj.info »
The Associated Press ( AP ) says the U.N. human rights office expressed dismay on March 9 that Switzerland is set to join a few other countries where “actively discriminating against Muslim women” is legal, after Swiss voters approved a ban on face coverings like burqas and niqabs that some Muslim women wear. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon yesterday signed a decree on drafting young Tajiks into the country’s armed forces from April through March 2021, the Tajik president’s official website reports. The draft affects able-bodied male citizens in the age bracket of 18 years old to 27 years old, who are not members of the armed forces reserve. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) notes that the current state of most of the regional and rural highways in the country, which have low traffic capacity, does not meet the requirements of the norms being in force in the country. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are expected to electrify a rail link connecting the Uzbek cities of Bekobod and Kokand though the Tajik city of Konibodom. asiaplustj.info »
A spike in fuel prices has led to increase in taxi and marshrutka fares in the northern Sughd province. Thus, the fuel price hike has led to increase in fare for marshrutka (a form of public transportation such as share taxi, which originated in the Soviet Union and is still present in the CIS nations) in Khujand, the capital of the Sughd province, from 1.30 somonis to 1. asiaplustj.info »
Police are looking for a woman, who is suspected of killing a 7-year-old boy. The tragedy took place in Dushanbe on March 5. A 53-year-old woman, who is the wife of the uncle of the boy’s father, is suspected of committing this crime, according to the Dushanbe Police Directorate Police are reportedly looking for the woman and an investigation is under way. asiaplustj.info »
Fuel prices have significantly risen in Tajikistan, and most likely, this trend will continue in the near future as well. The growth in fuel prices at gas stations in the country has been observed since the beginning of the year, but over the past week, the price increase has become more noticeable. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik grand mufti Sayeedmukarram Abduqodirzoda will visit the Uzbek city of Samarkand on March 15 at the invitation of the Uzbek Government for participation in an international conference dedicated to known Islamic scholar Imam al-Bukhari, a source within the Shuroi Ulamo (Council of Ulema -- an Islamic council that issues fatwas (religious rulings) and religious guidance to Islamic religious asiaplustj.info »
This year, the holy month of Ramadan will probably start in Tajikistan on April 13, Tajikistan grand mufti Sayeedmukarram Abduqodirzoda told Asia-plus in an interview. According to him, to him, to determine the exact start date of Ramadan, hey are currently collaborating with the Institute of Astrophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
The European Union (EU) Delegation to Tajikistan and partners welcome the first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in Dushanbe International Airport, according to the EU delegation to Tajikistan. H. E. asiaplustj.info »
Experts believe that Tajikistan could be leader in mining cryptocurrency. This requires liberal legislation and intellectual resources. Tajik authorities have announced the arrest of a group of persons engaged in mining cryptocurrency. asiaplustj.info »
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Tajikistan is making preparations for vaccination of the population against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). asiaplustj.info »
On the occasion of the Day of the Mother, Asia-Plus Media Group and water bottling plant Obi-Zulol have held a festive action “Modaroni Dushanbe” (Mothers of Dushanbe). A festively decorated bus carried women along the Roudaki Street free of charge. Besides, various gifts and surprises were waiting for them. asiaplustj.info »
As in the previous year, Tajikistan is rated Not Free in Freedom in the World , Freedom House's annual study of political rights and civil liberties worldwide. In the “civil freedoms” category, Tajikistan got only 8 out of 100 maximum possible scores; while in the “political freedoms” category, Tajikistan awarded zero scores (the worst possible rate). asiaplustj.info »
Gasoline prices have risen sharply in Tajikistan over the past week. The price of one liter of 92-octane gasoline in Dushanbe has risen nearly 10 percent over the past week – from 7. 20 somonis on February 25 to 7. asiaplustj.info »
On Thursday March 4, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tajikistan jointly hosted the first meeting of the newly-established E-commerce Development Council, designed to promote the development of e-commerce in Tajikistan. According to the U.S. asiaplustj.info »
