Incidents

KHOROG, February 13, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- One hundred years have passed since Lake Sarez formed in Gorno Badakhshan. “A strong tremor was felt...

DUSHANBE, February 12, 2011, Asia-Plus -- Four persons were killed and at least one other was injured on February 11 as two vehicles...

Four more avalanches hit the Maikhoura area Thursday night, blocking the Dushanbe-Khujand highway.

A series of avalanches have poured down on a stretch of the Dushanbe-Khujand highway in the Maikhoura area. 35 vehicles, mostly trucks, got trapped in the avalanches.

DUSHANBE, February 10, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- With earthquakes, heat waves, floods and snowstorms affecting 208 million people, killing nearly 300,000, and costing $110...

DUSHANBE, February 9, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Rescuers from the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) found the body of Sattor Aliyev,...

DUSHANBE, February 8, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Minister of Interiors Abdurahim Qahhorov and chief of the police department in Dushanbe’s Sino district have promised...

One person has been killed and two others have been reported missing after the car they were moving in fell over a precipice into a river in Sughd province.

Twelve Tajik nationals wounded in a January 24 bombing attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport have already been discharged from hospitals. Six other Tajik wounded in the Domodedovo are still in hospitals and doctors assess their condition as satisfactory.

DUSHANBE, February 7, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- The Interior Ministry press service reports that the Interior Ministry internal security department chief, Colonel Saydullo Pirov,...