Kazakhstan Capital

Thirteen people died in a fire at a hostel in Kazakhstan's biggest city, Almaty, on Thursday, the city's emergencies department said in a statement.

China's President Xi Jinping landed in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan Wednesday, AFP journalists in the capital Nur-Sultan said.

The ministry of energy in Kazakhstan identified 13 illegal crypto mining centres and busted their operations. The development comes after the government of Kazakhstan instructed all crypto mining centres to identify themselves with relevant paperwork before March 19. Crypto mining is overloading the power grids in the central Asian country.

The capitals of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as well as Kazakhstan's economic hub Almaty suffered power cuts Tuesday, AFP correspondents reported.

In a rare snub to "all-weather ally" Pakistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a customary meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakh capital Astana after the murder of two Chinese teachers in Balochistan.

In his first remarks after joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit as a member at Kazakhstan capital Astana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said connectivity projects among the eight-nation security bloc were a priority for India but underlined that such projects had to respect "territorial integrity and sovereignty" of countri...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif met briefly and exchanged pleasantries at a cultural gala in Kazakhstan capital Astana on Thursday, amid frosty ties and a sharp escalation of hostilities along the border.

On his second day in Kazakhstan capital Asthana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping this morning on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO - a consortium that focuses on security and trade. This was the first meeting of the two leaders to build on common interests in eight months; much of it spent und...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight greeted his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at a cultural gala in Kazakhstan's capital Astana, say sources. The two prime ministers are in Astana to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit where India and Pakistan will be inducted as full members of the bloc, in its first ever expansion sinc...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Kazakhstan capital today on a two-day visit to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit where India and Pakistan will be inducted as full members of the bloc, in the first ever expansion since its inception in 2001.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan after reaching Astana today. PM Modi is in the Kazakh capital to attend the two-day summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO - a consortium that focuses on security and trade. India and Pakistan - will be formally inducted in the six-n...

Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif find themselves in the same room in Kazakhstan capital Astana, India on Monday ruled out any meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the multilateral Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit later this week. "No meeting is scheduled either from their side...

Syrian rebels are sending more than a dozen representatives next week to the capital of Kazakhstan for talks with government representatives, the first such negotiations between the two sides in a year. But the loss of Aleppo, the election of Donald Trump and the pivot of Turkey toward Russia has left the opposition with very little room to maneuve...

The president of Kazakhstan on Friday declined a proposal by his parliament to rename the capital city after him, crimping the growing personality cult around the man who has run the Central Asian nation since 1989.

Suspected Islamist terrorists killed at least three policemen and a civilian in Kazakhstan's financial capital Almaty on Monday, security sources and witnesses said, and authorities said one gunman was still at large.

Thirteen people died in a fire at a hostel in Kazakhstan's biggest city, Almaty, on Thursday, the city's emergencies department said in a statement.

China's President Xi Jinping landed in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan Wednesday, AFP journalists in the capital Nur-Sultan said.

The ministry of energy in Kazakhstan identified 13 illegal crypto mining centres and busted their operations. The development comes after the government of Kazakhstan instructed all crypto mining centres to identify themselves with relevant paperwork before March 19. Crypto mining is overloading the power grids in the central Asian country.

The capitals of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as well as Kazakhstan's economic hub Almaty suffered power cuts Tuesday, AFP correspondents reported.

In a rare snub to "all-weather ally" Pakistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a customary meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakh capital Astana after the murder of two Chinese teachers in Balochistan.

In his first remarks after joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit as a member at Kazakhstan capital Astana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said connectivity projects among the eight-nation security bloc were a priority for India but underlined that such projects had to respect "territorial integrity and sovereignty" of countri...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif met briefly and exchanged pleasantries at a cultural gala in Kazakhstan capital Astana on Thursday, amid frosty ties and a sharp escalation of hostilities along the border.

On his second day in Kazakhstan capital Asthana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping this morning on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO - a consortium that focuses on security and trade. This was the first meeting of the two leaders to build on common interests in eight months; much of it spent und...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight greeted his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at a cultural gala in Kazakhstan's capital Astana, say sources. The two prime ministers are in Astana to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit where India and Pakistan will be inducted as full members of the bloc, in its first ever expansion sinc...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Kazakhstan capital today on a two-day visit to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit where India and Pakistan will be inducted as full members of the bloc, in the first ever expansion since its inception in 2001.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan after reaching Astana today. PM Modi is in the Kazakh capital to attend the two-day summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO - a consortium that focuses on security and trade. India and Pakistan - will be formally inducted in the six-n...

Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif find themselves in the same room in Kazakhstan capital Astana, India on Monday ruled out any meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the multilateral Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit later this week. "No meeting is scheduled either from their side...

Syrian rebels are sending more than a dozen representatives next week to the capital of Kazakhstan for talks with government representatives, the first such negotiations between the two sides in a year. But the loss of Aleppo, the election of Donald Trump and the pivot of Turkey toward Russia has left the opposition with very little room to maneuve...

The president of Kazakhstan on Friday declined a proposal by his parliament to rename the capital city after him, crimping the growing personality cult around the man who has run the Central Asian nation since 1989.

Suspected Islamist terrorists killed at least three policemen and a civilian in Kazakhstan's financial capital Almaty on Monday, security sources and witnesses said, and authorities said one gunman was still at large.