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Azerbaijan GP: Lando Norris handed three-place grid drop
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], June 5 (ANI): McLaren's Lando Norris on Saturday was handed a three-place grid penalty for Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix after the stewards in Baku concluded that he had continued on track under red flag conditions, rather than returning to the pits.
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Azerbaijan GP: Ferrari's Charles Leclerc takes pole position
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], June 5 (ANI): Ferrari's Charles Leclerc delivered impressive pace and benefitted from a tow from Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to take a sensational pole position for Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix in what was a thrilling qualifying session that saw five crashes and four red fl
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Formula 2: Shwartzman surges to dominant first win of season in Baku
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], June 5 (ANI): Robert Shwartzman produced a controlled performance around the streets of Baku for his first win of the year, bouncing back from a difficult start to the season to kickstart his title challenge, beating out Dan Ticktum by five seconds, with Guanyu Zhou taking
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Six Armenian soldiers detained after attempt to cross border, claims Azerb
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], May 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Thursday a new border provocation by the Armenian armed forces, noting that six Armenian servicemen were captured.
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Azerbaijan takes steps to stabilise situation on Armenian border
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
eBaku [Azerbaijan], May 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Baku has been taking appropriate measures to normalize the situation on the border with Armenia, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lyla Abdullayeva told Sputnik on Sunday.
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COVID-19: ISSF World Cup in Baku cancelled
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], April 26 (ANI): The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Baku has been cancelled due to surge in COVID-19 cases in Azerbaijan.
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Bangladesh: Hardline Hefazat-e-Islam supporters attack Hindu village over
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 17 (ANI): Thousands of hardline Islamist organisation Hefazat-e-Islam supporters on Wednesday attacked a Hindu village in Shalla upazila of Sunamgan district, after a Hindu man criticised the group joint-secretary general Mawlana Mufti Mamunul's speech in social med
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Azerbaijan's Parliament lifts martial law
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani parliament voted on Friday to enact a presidential decree to lift the martial law, which was imposed on September 28 due to escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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Baku to summon French ambassador over Karabakh resolution backed by French
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on Friday denounced the approval by the French lower house of the resolution on the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and said it would summon the French ambassador in Baku to express its stance on the matter to Paris
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Armenian President seeks Putin's help to bring Armenian servicemen held by
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Yerevan [Armenia], November 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Armenian President Armen Sargsyan has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to assist the return of Armenian captives who are held in Azerbaijan since the escalation of the Karabakh conflict, Sargsyan's office said on Monday.
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Armenia to be held responsible for infrastructure destruction in Nagorno-K
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], November 17 (ANI/Sputnik): Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Armenia would be held responsible for the destruction of infrastructure in territories in unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh that had come under the control of Azerbaijan.
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Leh airport to expand passenger handling capacity fourfold amid rising tou
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Leh (Ladakh) [India], November 13 (ANI): Situated in the Himalayas at an altitude of over 10,000 feet, Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport in Leh connects Ladakh with the rest of the country. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided to scale up the passenger handling capacity of the air
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