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  • Ansari to undertake four-day visit to Uzbekistan

    Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will undertake an official visit to Uzbekistan from May 21 to 24. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation. Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jayanti Natarajan and four Members of Parliament are likely to be part of the delegation. Vice-President Ansari will depart from Delhi on May 21 and reach Tashkent on the same day. On ...

  • Tajikistan president visits China

    /enpproperty--> China and Tajikistan established a strategic partnership on Monday, which observers said would benefit the two countries' economies and regional stability. ...

  • Milli Majlis dismisses reports on bill on Azerbaijan’s occupied lands

    A number of media have recently spread reports about the alleged preparation of a bill on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan in Milli Majlis. According to the press service for the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan, in line with the information in media, there is a plan to submit the bill for discussion in the parliament of Azerbaijan soon. The statement disseminated by the press service for the Milli ...

  • Baku expands role in Turkish economy

    By Vladimir Socor On March 22 in Copenhagen, the Danish and Turkish prime ministers, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Recep Tayyp Erdogan, witnessed the signing of agreements between subsidiaries of Danish Moeller-Maersk and Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) to develop a giant port near Izmir in Turkey. The petrochemicals holding Petrokimya (Petkim), majority-owned by SOCAR, is ...

  • The right fare in Azerbaijan

    importing of 1,000 London taxis to Baku, the construction of an international bus station, and a lucrative road-construction project. The group has received preferential treatment and the interlinked companies owned by the families have taken large shares or even monopolized certain transportation sectors like bus transport, taxis, road construction, and cargo-transportation services in the ...


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Billy Liar [DVD]

Billy Liar [DVD]

John Schlesinger's Billy Liar was released in 1963 at the tail end of the British New Cinema movement that had begun in the late 1950s with Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1958) and Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger (1959). This outpouring of social-realist dramas (sometimes referred to as "kitchen sink dramas"), all shot in black-and-white and usually taking placed in ind ... ...

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  • Azerbaijan queries Eurovision snub

    Azerbaijan says Eurovision made a mistake when it recorded 'nul votes' from the country for Russia's Dina Garipova, above, at the Eurovision Song Contest. Picture: ...

  • Flight recorders from crashed U.S. military plane found in Kyrgyzstan

    Searchers found flight recorders from a U.S. military plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan in early May, Kyrgyz's Transport and Communication Ministry said Monday. A ministry spokesman said the recorders were found in debris at the crash site and turned over to U.S. officials for analysis, RIA Novosti reported. The Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker with a three-member crew crashed into a gorge ...

  • Fakhriya Khalafova comments on “zero” points for Russia from Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijani member of jury Fakhriya Khalafova has commented on "zero" points for Russia from Azerbaijan. The statement made by Head of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev that Russia was to get a high score from Azerbaijan has caused a great resonance. Head of the Public Television made a statement on the fact of counting votes of Azerbaijani viewers in Russia's ...

  • Azerbaijan flag raised on Mount Everest

    19 May 2013 at 6:30 am Nepal time, Murad Ashurly as part of an international team climbed Mount Everest, the highest point of the world (8,848 meters) and set the flag of Azerbaijan there, 1news.az reports. In a telephone conversation Ashurly Murad said that the raging hurricane winds didn't leave the snow and firn in the key segments of the route above 8,600 meters, revealing sloping rock ...

  • Tech cooperation week between Guangdong Inner Mongolia planned

    /enpproperty--> The first technology cooperation week between Guangdong province and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region will take place in Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, from May 25 to 31. The annual event will be one of the biggest economic cooperative ventures between the two areas. About 1,000 delegates from Inner Mongolia will visit Guangzhou and several other cities in ...

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