Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said India may impose additional safeguards for its nuclear power projects in the wake of the damage caused to Japan's atomic facilities by Friday's earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed.

• March 16, 2011

Russian delegation, headed by Director of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation Anatoly Kuznetsov, will arrive in the capital of Kyrgyzstan on a working visit. During two-day visit, Kyrgyz and Russian parties are going to discuss topical issues, related to labour migration from Kyrgyzstan to Russia, reported press-service of Ministry of Labor, Employment and Migration.

• March 16, 2011

President of Swiss Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey on Sunday arrived in Azerbaijan on official visit.

• March 14, 2011

The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordyuzha, will visit Tajikistan on March 14-18, the Central Asian country's Foreign Ministry said.

• March 14, 2011

After it was hit by a catastrophic tsunami in 2004, the Indian government has put in place an effective system to issue tsunami alerts.

• March 14, 2011

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will send observers to the presidential elections in Kazakhstan to be held in April.

• March 12, 2011

With the price of oil climbing to more than $100 a barrel, Russia has a little more weight to throw around on the world stage, and it is doing just that.

• March 11, 2011

The United States is using the recent uprisings in the Middle East to make the case to authoritarian Central Asian states to undertake democratic reform.

• March 11, 2011