Presidential elections in Kazakhstan are being held on April 26, over a year ahead of schedule, and that nation’s embassy, which is located in the posh Vasant Vihar area of South Delhi, is going all out to make the event…

ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev received visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Akorda presidential residence on April 13, emphasising that Kazakhstan sees Iran as a close political and economic partner. Source: http://www.astanatimes.com

More than 230,000 entrepreneurs receive AID under business roadmap-2020 program Source: kazakh-tv.kz

The waters of the Syr-Darya river are highly polluted and should not be used for irrigating crops, let alone for drinking, scientists from Kazakhstan have concluded. Tests of the waters of Cent Source: http://www.eurasianet.org

Israel, US raise hackles over Russian sale of S-300 missiles to Tehran, but Moscow says move won’t threaten Israel; US negotiator defends accord as best shot at stopping Iranian bomb Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com

Nursultan Nazarbayev & Patrick Pouyanne at KAZAKHSTAN-TOTAL-POLITICS-BUSINESS http://t.co/xaRWlqVtZi Source: newzcard.com

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday told visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that he considered the Islamic republic a political and economic ally. I had trust-based working relationships with all Iranian leaders. Source: latino.foxnews.com

Consumer market of Kazakhstan Source: kazakh-tv.kz

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif says Tehran sets no limits to ties with the Caucasian and Central Asian states. Source: http://www.presstv.ir

Former Kazakh intelligence chief Alnur Musaev and ex-presidential bodyguard Vadim Koshlyak are accused of aiding the abduction and murder of two managers of Kazakhstan’s Nurbank in 2007. Source: http://www.rferl.org