Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan received Indian President Kovind, first ever presidential visit by an Indian head of state; a memorandum of understanding has been signed on the issue of financial intelligence

The start of the spring planting campaign was launched in recent days with the participation of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, an event with a high value in the country's tradition

Early presidential elections will be held today; Central Election Commission confirmed that the order to hold the elections came from the president

A briefing on the adoption of the "National Programme for Transforming Turkmenistan into a Tobacco-Free Country for 2022-2025" and the action plan for its implementation was held Ashgabat

A new technology for the use of liquorice root in food products has been developed in the laboratory of the Technology Centre of the Turkmenistan Academy of Sciences; bread was the first product enriched with glycyrrhizic acid

The development programme for 2022-2052 sets out a number of goals, including the further active development and strengthening of the sphere of statehood and the promotion of greater public confidence in governmental and social institutions

The country is ready to resume the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project after a high-ranking national delegation discussed it in Kabul

The international scientific and practical conference 'Turkmen land - the centre of cultural values of world popularity' and an exhibition of objects, pottery, carpets, jewellery opened in the capital

The flames burning for over 50 years in a remote crater of the Karakum desert, a destination for the few local tourists, will be put out by presidential order to save the natural gas that fuels them and to avoid pointless impact on the environment

The WHO Country Office in Turkmenistan and the Government have prepared a list of activities for 2022, with a number of measures aimed at preventing infectious diseases, in the frame of the systematic development of cooperation

The UN Development Program together with national partners evaluated the recently launched project for the conservation and sustainable management of land resources and high nature value ecosystems in the Aral Sea basin

The country has been recognised as having the world's slowest internet, with users needing almost a full day to download a movie according to Cable.co.uk

A lifeline for many people is about to be cut: family members of Turkmen migrant workers and prisoners will lose access to subsidized food amid growing poverty, inflation and food shortages in the country