Four people were trapped in the rubble during the illegal gold prospecting in Galaorol district of Jizzakh region Tuesday, the press service of the provincial police department said. Two people died on the spot, two were taken to intensive care with fractures and other bodily injuries.

The Deputy Prime Minister/Chairman of the Tourism Development Committee Aziz Abdukhakimov held talks with a Kuwaiti delegation led by Vice President of Jazeera Airways Ravindran Bharathan.

On January 28, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held an online summit with the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in, the presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan climbs 7 places to rank 146 in Transparency International's corruption perception index 2020. The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.

The Cotton Campaign welcomes significant further progress toward ending forced labor of cotton pickers in the 2020 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. In a notable sign of change, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, the Cotton Campaign’s frontline partner, did not document any cases of forced labor in some cotton-growing districts for the first time in ten years of monitoring forced labor in the Uzbek cotton harvest, Cotton Campaign said.

 Innovative Development Ministry has signed a deal with the Turkish airport operator TAV on cooperation in the fields of joint investment and innovative projects, Anadolu said.

At the Jan. 27 government meeting, Shavkat Mirziyoyev warned government officials that those who hold "unnecessary meetings" will be fired.

Year-to-date, the officers of the Tashkent City Police Department have seized 655 cold arms or objects that can be used as edged weapons, the press service of the Department reported.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree approving the agreement between the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the government of the Federal Republic of Germany on the exchange and mutual protection of classified information.

The President of Uzbekistan, at the Jan. 27 government meeting, instructed the Prosecutor General Nigmatilla Yuldashev to identify the causes of corruption in each province of Uzbekistan.

Shortly, one governor and one minister will be dismissed from office, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at a government meeting on January 27. However, he did not elaborated on who exeactly will be sacked.

Online summit between the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in will take place on January 28, the Uzbek leader’s press service said.

In January–December 2020, the average monthly salary before tax of employees of legal entities, excluding small and agriculture businesses, topped 2.6 million soums, US$ 250 increasing by 14.8% to the last year, the Statistics Committee said in a report.

Uzbeks are offered jobs in Russian companies. Drivers, crane operators, fitters, electricians, bulldozer drivers, cooks are especially in demand.

The State-Owned Assets Management Agency (SOAMA) responded to the Anti-Corruption Agency's demand to suspend the privatization process of Coca-Cola Ichimligi Uzbekiston, Ltd.

The Minister of Labor Nozim Husanov hosted the visiting Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid al-Falih and exchanged views with on a number of issues.

The government, by its January 23 resolution, approved the Regulation on the Chegara Posbonlari (Frontier Guards) Assistance Units to Border Troops of the State Security Service, the Ministry of Justice said.

The Minister of Energy Alisher Sultanov on January 24 held talks with the Minister of Investment of Saudi Arabia Khaled Al-Falih, the Uzbek Ministry of Energy said.

On January 14, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law amending the Personal Data Law. The Law was supplemented with article 27−1 “Special conditions for processing personal data of citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It reads:

Today, on January 26, the republican anti-coronavirus commission issued a new decision. The decision notes that due to the stabilization of the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, the lockdown restrictions have been gradually lifted in Uzbekistan since November 2020.