Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) should combine their "huge potential" to continue enhancing their coordination on major issues of common concern.

• April 12, 2011

The Kyrgyz government on Monday approved a plan to join a post-Soviet customs union and common economic space.

• April 11, 2011

The world's best-known institute for handling bad bugs — Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — will help India strengthen its laboratory and manpower capacity to better detect pathogens like NDM-1 and virus outbreaks.

• April 9, 2011

President of Hungary Pal Schmitt offered Kyrgyz counterpart Roza Otunbayeva to pay official visit to Hungary, as reported press-service of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.

• April 8, 2011

An Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday Iran's Majlis (Parliament) will set up a committee to investigate the delay in the launch of the country's first nuclear power plant, Mehr news agency reported.

• April 7, 2011

Turkey's chief European Union negotiator has urged French lawmakers to take action to ward off discussion of a so-called 'Armenian genocide' bill over the events of 1915 on the French Senate floor

• April 7, 2011

A representative delegation headed by Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar will visit Turkmenistan in the coming days, Deputy Iranian Interior Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mehdi Muhammadifar said, as reported by the Iranian news agency İRNA.

• April 7, 2011

A Chinese firm is looking at investing in Pakistan's hydel power projects that would add nearly 9,000 MW of electricity to the national grid, a media report said Wednesday.

• April 6, 2011