The number of attempts to smuggle drugs through the transport infrastructure of Uzbekistan is growing, stated the director of the National Information and Analytical Center for Drug Control (NIACCN) Olim Narzullaev at a meeting of the heads of the relevant authorities of the SCO member states today in Tashkent, Dunyo news agency reported.

The twenty-fifth plenary session of the Senate will be convened on April 28 this year, the Senate said. Reportedly, during the two-day plenary session, which will be held via conference call, a number of issues will be considered.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) rejected all media reports and social media rumors regarding firing of rockets from Afghanistan’s soil on Termez, Uzbekistan. The situation along the Afghan-Uzbek border is normal with nothing to be concerned about,” the spokesperson to the ministry Abdul Qahar Balkhi said.

April 20, 2022, Tashkent, Uzbekistan- U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum presented 50 Toyota Hilux and Fortuner SUVs to the Border Troops of the State Security Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

On April 19, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev fired dozens of senior officials and issued a warning to the Tashkent mayor at a government meeting on improving the effectiveness of the system of work in mahallas and ensuring employment, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

On April 18, Minister for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications Sherzod Shermatov held a meeting with executives of Microsoft, the Ministry said in a statement.

Uzbekistan Airways increases the frequency of Tashkent to Seoul flights, the company said. Flights are currently regularly being operated on Thursdays and Sundays, from May 3 this year they will also be operated on Tuesdays.

The 56th International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad, organized by the Presidential Agency for Educational Institutions, will be held in Tashkent on May 9-16.

Chairman of Uzbekneftegaz Mekhriddin Abdullayev chaired a meeting on the new approach in the processes of production and processing, financial recovery and collection of receivables, the company said.

MPs of the Legislative Chamber passed the bill expanding the powers of the National Guard officers in the first reading. This was announced today by the UzLiDeP MP Rasul Kusherbaev.

The government has approved new traffic rules. According to the document, from May 1, front-seat passengers will have to wear their seat belts.

The Center for the Development of Clinical Trials of Medicines in the form of a state-owned enterprise was set up by a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated April 14. The center is being founded by the Agency for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry under the Ministry of Health.

The Tashkent International Animation Forum (TIAF) will be held on April 18-22. The animation forum was organized by the Uzbek Cinematography Agency in cooperation with the embassies of Switzerland and Israel, the Goethe Institute in Tashkent, Bazelevs Film Company, the National Center for Cinematography Development, the National Film Fund of Uzbekistan and DRF community independent filmmakers of Uzbekistan.

The IT company EPAM Systems, founded by Belarussians, relocated up to a thousand of its workers from Russia and Belarus to Uzbekistan, Forbes reported with reference to local entrepreneurs and EPAM specialists.

Story which surfaced on some Telegram channels that a rocket attack launched from the territory of Afghanistan on units of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan in Termez province “are absolute fakes,” said the President’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

The press service of the Tashkent city courts published the details of the administrative case against the renowned political scientist Kamoliddin Rabbimov.

446 kg of animal meat of unknown origin without sanitary documents was found in a Nexia car at the Syrdarya road patrol post on April 11, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

10th-grader of school No. 68 of the Sergeli district of Tashkent died in a fight in a gaming club, the General Prosecutor's Office said.

The Uzbekistan combined team of military personnel were third in the Sayan March competition, which is as part of the International Army Games in Russia, the Ministry of Defense said.

Today, April 18, after a long period of dry weather, a humid air mass due to a high-altitude cyclone over Turkmenistan will begin to spread to the southwestern provinces of Uzbekistan, Uzhydromet said.