Six nations to meet in Kazakhstan on Iran`s N-programme

Last Updated: Sunday, February 3, 2013, 17:20

The sextet of international mediators - Britain, China, France, Russia, the US and Germany - will hold talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear prog.

Kazakhstan plane crash near Almaty kills 21 on board

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 14:38

Twenty one people aboard a passenger plane were on Tuesday killed in a crash near Kazakhstan’s commercial hub Almaty.

Kazakh man jailed for showing ‘middle finger’ to lawmaker

Last Updated: Monday, January 14, 2013, 21:22

A court in Kazakhstan has jailed a 22-year-old man for giving the finger to a lawmaker`s motorcade, in a ruling that put rude gestures outside the scope of freedom of expression.

27 die in Kazakhstan military plane crash

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 09:23

Twenty-seven people died in Kazakhstan Tuesday when a military plane in which they were travelling crashed, Xinhua reported.

China opens $962 mn border railway with Kazakhstan

Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 15:57

China has opened a USD 962 million second cross-border railway with Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan determined to eliminate nuclear threat: Nazarbayev

Last Updated: Monday, December 17, 2012, 18:42

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said his government supports the efforts of the international community to counter nuclear terrorism.

Kazakh border ex-guard gets life for mass murder

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 00:30

A Kazakhstan court Tuesday handed down a life sentence to a former border guard convicted of killing 15 people this summer.

Kazakhstan cyclist wins Tour de India

Last Updated: Monday, December 10, 2012, 17:06

Cyclist Pannasenko Nikita of Kazakhstan managed to edge past German Plarre Matthias in a photo-finish to win the final leg of the Tour de India at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) , also emerging the overall winner with 16 points.

`Gaddafi offered Kazakhstan billions for atom bombs`

Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 22:57

Kazakhstan, a Central Asian, Muslim majority state, broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991 and gave up its nuclear arsenal of 1,410 nuclear warheads shortly after.

8 believed dead in Kazakhstan helicopter crash

Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 21:41

Emergency service officials in Kazakhstan say they have found the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing earlier this week with eight people onboard.

Kazakh school expels HIV-positive pupils

Last Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 12:20

School doctors were the first to hear about the children`s HIV status during a BCG vaccination campaign.

Kazakhstan bans anti-Islam film

Last Updated: Friday, October 5, 2012, 08:44

A Kazakh court Thursday ruled that the anti-Islam US film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ was extremist and issued a nationwide ban on its distribution, Judge Kuanysh Zhaksybergenov said.