KABUL (TCA) — India and Afghanistan have signed agreements to implement 26 projects worth $9.5 million in Afghanistan amid a changing geopolitical scenario in the region. While the US has been urging India to send its armed forces to the war-torn nation, India has reiterated its commitment to complete infrastructure projects it has promised to Afghanistan, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Power supply in south Uzbekistan will be significantly improved thanks to the creation of additional generation capacity at the existing Talimarjan power plant (TPP) with the help of a sovereign loan of up to US$ 240 million provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to JSC Uzbekenergo. The project will be the largest EBRD investment in Uzbekistan to date, the Bank said on January 14.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s short-term and medium-term outlooks are positive, as growth in the Russian economy, elevated prices for major export commodities—cotton and aluminum—and growing regional cooperation will support external proceeds, the World Bank says in its latest issue of the Country Economic Update for Tajikistan, entitled “Rogun HPP – Potential Resource for Building Human Capital”.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Embassy of Uzbekistan in the Netherlands held negotiations with Erika den Daas, the CEO of Meijer, one of the world’s leading companies and supplier of seed potatoes, the Jahon information agency reported with reference to the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani said at the India-Central Asia Dialogue in Uzbekistan on January 13 that Afghanistan can provide the most cost-effective transit routes as he highlighted the country’s importance for connecting the region, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A prominent Tajik journalist has been sentenced to eight months in prison for breaching a court order and illegally leaving the country, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported citing his lawyer.

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