Social card will be implemented in Uzbekistan from October 1 to finance all social assistance to the public. The president Shavkat Mirziyoyev stated this at a meeting on Tuesday, according to his press secretary Sherzod Asadov.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of Russian president Vladimir Putin and will pay a working visit to Kazan today to attend the opening ceremony of the Future Games.

The Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev hosted the Foreign Minister of Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov. Greeting the minister Saidov, President Tokayev commended the high upward trend of the Kazakh-Uzbek ties. According to him, Kazakhstan attached priority to further advancing the ties with brotherly Uzbekistan. 

Over 12 thousand parents were brought to administrative liability for failure to perform their duties in raising and educating their children. The director of the department of the Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MPSE) Azamat Kamalov said.

The Prosecutor General's Office confirmed the incident Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine. According to provisional information, 3 people were killed and 45 were injured.

Uzbekistan Airways will launch Nukus to Istanbul regular flights from April 1. This is stipulated by the Feb. 9 presidential decree on the comprehensive development of Karakalpakstan autonomy.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted Russian Deputy PM/Minister of Industry and Trade/Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation, Denis Manturov.

Uzbek Ambassador Nodir Ganiev held talks with the director of the Swedish Aral Sea Society, Bo Liebert. According to Dunyo, during the talks, the parties exchanged views on the current state of affairs and prospects of the 25-year cooperation between Uzbekistan's universities and the Swedish Aral Sea Society.

The public became aware that ex-officials who raped the inmates of an orphanage in Urgench were serving their sentences in a prison colony. The press service of the Tashkent City Courts explained why this decision was made.

Uzbek Ambassador Amirsaid Azamkhozhaev visited the Collegium Humanum University in Warsaw and held a meeting with the rector of the higher education institution, Pavel Charnetskш, Honorary Consul of Uzbekistan in Poland.

Parliamentary delegation led by the Speaker of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan Nuriddin Ismailov will visit the Russian Federation on February 19-20.

LOT Polish Airlines will launch Warsaw to Tashkent regular flight from March 13, 2024. According to Dunyo, the number of Polish tourists who visited Uzbekistan in 2023 was фе 8 thousand. At the promotional event dedicated to the launch of the flight, it is planned to bring this figure to 25 thousand in 2024.

UK medical institutions will hire Uzbek nurses, the Foreign Labor Migration Agency said. Reportedly, the agency reached an agreement with the UK employers' union on this matter.

The memory of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last Friday in the Polar Wolf colony, was honored on Saturday at the Shahidlar Khotirasi (Memory of the Victims of Repression) alley in Tashkent.

World Bank Global Director for Environment Valeria Hickey, attending the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals in Samarkand, noted that large-scale events are being held in Uzbekistan on environmental protection were being highly commended by world organizations. She emphasized that the organization supported Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s initiatives.

Shavkat Mirziyoev signed the Privatization of State-owned property Bill into Law, the Legal Information channel said in a statement.

Uzgidromet announced the Tashkent city weather forecast. On Friday afternoon there will be occasional precipitation (rain, snow), with no precipitation on weekends. Fog is possible at night and in the morning.

On February 13 in Tashkent, the Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change Aziz Abdukhakimov and the chief of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Carlos Rodriguez discussed the implementation of the fund’s projects in Uzbekistan, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology said in a statement.

Uzbekistan climbed 1 place to rank 149th out of 167 in the Democracy Index 2022, the Economist Intelligence Units Democracy Index 2023 said in its released report on Thursday.

Uzgidromet announced the weather forecast on Friday for the Tashkent city. The weather in Tashkent will be slightly cloudy, with occasional rain, which may turn to snow in the evening. The temperature will be +9...+11 degrees Celsius range at night and in the morning, and will drop to +2...+4 degrees during the day.