Officers of the State Security Service and the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor's Office curbed corruption offenses committed by officials in several provinces, the Uzbekistan 24 reported.

The Anti-Corruption Agency has developed a draft bill on income declaration, which is currently being coordinated with the relevant authorities, the Deputy director Umida Tukhtasheva announced at a press conference on January 7.

The Director General of Khorezm Territorial Electrical Networks Muratbay Bazarimbetov was arrested in his office on December 24 suspected of taking a bribe.

On the morning of January 8, two combined cycle plants with total capacity of 900 MW (450 MW each) at the Talimarjan Thermal Power Plant failed, the Kashkadarya Province Electric Networks said in a statement.

The Phase I of the $140 million business aviation airport project at Tashkent-Sharqiy (Eastern) airport will be completed before 2022.

185 cases of infant trafficking were identified in 2017-2020 in Uzbekistan, announced the spokeswoman to the Investigation Department under the Interior Ministry Nargiza Khodjiboeva at a briefing at the Agency of Information and Mass Communications.

Life was busy to say the least for Malika, an English teacher at a university in Tashkent and the mother of three children ages 10, 7, and 3. Then the pandemic hit, leaving everyone locked at home indefinitely. The whole world had slowed down, except for the deadly virus that was spreading rapidly.

In March, Uzbekistan will purchase a new Boeing-787-8. This will be the fourth Boeing-787-8 aircraft purchased in the last three years. As reported earlier, Uzbekistan Airways received the delivery of a new Airbus A320 Neo.

Today the Governments of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the United States of America and the Republic of Kazakhstan are announcing the launch of the Central Asia Investment Partnership. The participants welcome other countries to join this initiative to promote regional economic partnership and prosperity.

On January 6, the Ministry of Justice registered a branch of the U.S. non-governmental organization Winrock International of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development.

The list of world’s most powerful passports for the beginning of 2021 was recently released with Uzbekistan at the 86th rank. The Henley Passport Index 2021 showed Uzbekistan’s position unchanged. Nevertheless, Uzbek passport holders can still access 57 countries visa free.

In his address to parliament on December 29, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced that the concept of minimum consumer expenses would be introduced in Uzbekistan from March 1, 2021. The head of the department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Ilkhom Mamatkulov, spoke about what the minimum consumer expenses is and why this method of determining the level of poverty has been chosen.

The next daily information on ZF 2001 vaccine tests in Uzbekistan was provided. It was noted that as of January 6, 2021, the total number of citizens who participated in the phase III testing of the coronavirus ZF 2001 vaccine was 1,270 people.

During the eleventh plenary session, the senators discussed the Cultural Activities And Cultural Organizations Bill, the press servise of the Senate said. The Bill was reportedly earlier considered by the Senate Committee on Youth, Culture and Sports with the participation of experts.

On January 5, a number of thermal power plants in Uzbekistan experienced partial blackouts. The Ministry of Energy reported that the TPP's emergency control equipment was triggered due to unscheduled shutdowns on the power lines of the unified energy system connecting Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

The Deputy Minister of Transport Davron Dekhkanov was fired by a presidential decree, a source in the government told the Tashkent Times.

Tashkent State Economic University and Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland) have launched a joint undergraduate program "Information Technologies and Business Mangement", Dunyo news agency said.

The Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and the chief of the Presidential Administration Zainilobiddin Nizomiddinov, on the president's instruction, chaired a meeting in the Cabinet of Ministers on the results of 2020 and priority goals for 2021, a source in the government told the Tashkent Times.

The websites of the Surkhandarya province governor’s office, as well as mayor’s office of the cities and districts of the province (11 websites in total) were hacked on January 6.

Uzbekistan Airways has accepted the delivery of a new Airbus A320 Neo, CAPA Fleet Database said. It became the 12th Airbus in the company’s fleet.