Kazakhstan Financial News

(Reuters) — Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday that Russia would create a simplified procedure for citizens and companies from «friendly» countries to invest there.

ALMATY (Reuters) -The death toll from a fire at a coal mine in Kazakhstan owned by ArcelorMittal (NYSE:MT) rose to 45 on Sunday, with emergency teams engaged in an operation to find one remaining miner believed to have been underground, emergency service officials were quoted as saying.

death toll from a fire at a mine owned by ArcelorMittal in Kazakhstan rose to 42 people on Sunday as a search for four miners continued, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said. «The search operation is hampered by the presence of destroyed mining equipment, as well as rubble in some places», the ministry said in a statement. Rescuers are searching for miners in two areas of the mine 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) apart, it said. On Saturday, operator ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the local unit of Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal, said 206 of 252 people at the Kostenko mine had been evacuated after what appeared to be a methane blast. The Ministry for Emergency Situations said it was still monitoring the gas situation at the mine.

Kazakhstan will begin on Monday a 13-day mega wargame in the Kazakh military base of Otar with a focus on boosting their counter- terror cooperation. The Indian contingent comprising 120 personnel from the Army and the Indian Air Force left for Kazakhstan on Sunday to participate in the seventh edition of the exercise 'Kazind-2023'. «In this edition of the exercise, both sides will practice conduct of counter terrorism operations in a sub-conventional environment under United Nations mandate,» the defence ministry said.

Kazakhstan has started the process of acquiring ArcelorMittal SA's local business after dozens died in a fire at the company's mine on Saturday. Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ordered the government to stop investment cooperation with ArcelorMittal Temirtau after the accident at the Kostenko mine near the city of Karaganda, Interfax reported. The government said on Saturday that it has reached a preliminary agreement with the shareholders of ArcelorMittal Temirtau and is preparing the transaction to transfer ownership of the enterprise in favor of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Jaishankar on Wednesday embarked on a two-day visit to Kyrgystan to attend the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG), to be held under the chairmanship of Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The October 25-October 26 meeting in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek will be attended by the heads of governments of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Vice-President of Iran, and the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan. «In Bishkek, the external affairs minister will also meet with his counterparts from other SCO member states and call on the country's top leadership,» the MEA statement read. SCO observer States including Belarus and Mongolia as well as guest state Turkmenistan will also attend the meeting. The CHG is the second-highest forum in SCO.

Prachi Yadav clinched a gold medal in the Canoe women's KL2 event to ensure the flurry of medals continued in the ongoing 4th Asian Para Games on Tuesday. After bagging a silver on Day 1 in the women's VL2 final, she topped the women's KL2 event with a timing of 54.962s. China's Shanshan Wang took away the silver medal with a timing of 55.674s.

Israel men's and women's national teams have been rescheduled for November, world soccer's governing body FIFA said on Monday. UEFA postponed all matches scheduled in the country earlier this month due to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The rescheduled games will be played as close as possible to the existing November international windows, FIFA said. The Kosovo v Israel and Israel v Switzerland Euro 2024 Group I qualifiers will now take place on Nov. 12 and Nov.

Inbound charter flights, which ferry hundreds of foreign travellers to the sunny beaches on India's western shores of Goa every winter, continue to stare at cloudy skies. The prolonged geopolitical turmoil in Russia and Ukraine, the economic chill in several parts of Europe and an escalating West Asia conflict are mainly to blame.

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By Katya Golubkova

A space station by 2035, and a manned mission to the moon by 2040 are among the objectives listed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) test flight for a first manned mission. This would put India into a very exclusive club. The Gaganyaan is due to start with the first of at least three un-crewed tests of the Human Rated Launch Vehicle, which will be launched on 21 October.

capacity-building mechanisms to Central Asian states to counter terror and, without naming the BRI, called for ensuring connectivity initiatives that are consultative, transparent and participatory in nature. Doval also proposed to set up an India-Central Asia Rare Earths Forum for possible partnerships in the domain of rare earth and strategic minerals. This will also facilitate the participation of Indian private companies in this region for investments and joint economic development. Terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, continues to constitute one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative looks to become smaller and greener after a decade of big projects that boosted trade but left big debts and raised environmental concerns

IMEC) and India-Israel-USA-UAE projects, China has launched dialogue across the region seeking to align BRI with Turkiye's Middle Corridor Initiative. Turkiye had decried IMEC, which is aimed at rivaling BRI in the region and this week's BRI summit in China is expected to witness efforts to align Ankara's Middle Corridor Initiative with BRI. The two sides recently held a high-level dialogue on the issue, ET has learnt. IMEC was announced on the sidelines of the G20 summit here in the presence of leaders of the USA, Saudi Arabia, India and Europe. Trans-Caspian East-West-Middle Corridor Initiative shortly named as 'The Middle Corridor', begins in Turkiye and passes through the Caucasus region via Georgia, Azerbaijan, crosses the Caspian Sea, traverses Central Asia and reaches China, according to a Turkish foreign ministry document.

Take a look at the schedule for Team India today, October 4: 4:30 am: 35km Race Walk Mixed Team - Manju Rani, Ram Baboo 16:30 pm: Men’s High Jump Final - Sandesh Jesse, Sarvesh Kushare 16:35 pm: Men’s Javelin Throw Final - Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Kumar Jena 16:40 pm: Women’s Triple Jump Final - Sheena Nellickal Varkey 16:55 pm: Women’s 800m Final - Harmilan Bains, KM Chanda 17:10 pm: Men’s 5000m Final - Avinash Sable, Gulveer Singh 17:45 pm: Women’s 4 x 400m Relay Final - India 18:05 pm: Men’s 4 x 400m Relay Final - India (Muhammad Anas Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Nihal William, Mijo Kurian) 6:00 am: Men’s Team Group A match - India vs Thailand 1:30 pm: Women’s Team Group A match - India vs Thailand 6:10 am: Compound Mixed Team Quarterfinal - India vs Malaysia 11:50 am: Recurve Mixed Team Quarterfinal - India vs Indonesia 6:30 am: Jumping Individual and Team Qualifier Round 1 - Kirat Singh Nagra, Tejas Dhingra, Yash Nensee 11:30 pm: Jumping Individual Qualifier Round 2 and Team Final Round - Kirat Singh Nagra, Tejas Dhingra, Yash Nensee 6:30 am onwards: Men’s Team Semifinal Session 4, 5 and 6 7:30 am onwards: Men’s Greco Roman 67kg 1/8 final - Neeraj 7:30 am onwards: Men’s Greco Roman 87kg 1/8 final - Sunil Kumar 7:30 am onwards: Men’s Greco Roman 60kg 1/8 final - Gyanender Dahiya 7:30 am onwards: Men’s Greco Roman 77kg 1/4 final - Vikas 7:30 am: Women’s Singles Round of 16 - PV Sindhu vs Putri Wardani (Indonesia) 7:50 am: Men’s Singles Round of 16 - HS Prannoy vs Dmitriy Panarin (Kazakhstan) 8:10 am: Women’s Doubles Round of 16 - Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand vs H Kong/ S Kim (South Korea) 8:30 am: Mixed Doubles Round of 16 - Tanisha Crasto/SP Krishna Prasad vs Ew Too/TJ Chen (Malaysia) 9:10 am: Men’s Doubles Quarterfinal -

Track the Asian Games LIVE medal tally here.India's Neeraj crashed to a 3-5 defeat vs Uzbek Makhmud Bakhshilloev in the men's greco-roman 67kg 1/8 final. In Wrestling, India have Neeraj facing Uzbek Makhmud Bakhshilloev in the men's greco-roman 67kg 1/8 final.India win bronze medal in 35km race walk mixed team event at Asian Games.Indian archers Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Deotale held their nerves to beat Malaysia 158-155 and advance into the compound mixed team semifinals at the Asian Games here on Wednesday.Standing one win away from a medal, the top-seeded India will next take on fourth-seed Kazakhstan in the semifinals later in the day.

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