Online authorizations will be issued for certain procedural actions within the framework of criminal cases. According to the draft 2024 state program, this is about tapping talks through telephones and other telecommunication devices, conducting searches, intercepting postal and telegraphic parcels, and other procedural actions.

The government of Uzbekistan unveiled the plan to announce a standstill for the construction of cement factories, the Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change Aziz Abdukhakimov said in his report at the Legislative Chamber on Tuesday.

Average population density in Uzbekistan as of January 1, 2024 was 82 people per sq.km. This is 1.8 people more than a year earlier – 80.2 people, the Statistical Agency said in a report.

Uzbekistan climbs 5 places to rank 121th out of 180 countries in the 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and was named one of the best improvers in the fight against corruption over the past 5-10 years, Transparency International said in a report on Tuesday.

On January 4, the Tashkent city’s Uchtepa district criminal court issued a ruling against the driver of a Captiva SUV, Zh. M., who killed a pedestrian in Tashkent.

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev laid flowers at the foot of the monument to the late president Islam Karimov in Tashkent, the presidential press service said.

According to the results of 2023, the average monthly salary before tax in Uzbekistan topped 4 million 551 thousand soums, growing by 17.2 percent to the previous year, the Statistics Agency said in a report.

Uzgidromet announced the weather forecast for Tashkent city on Wednesday, January 31. The weather in Tashkent will be slightly cloudy, with occasional snow. Fog may fall at night and in the morning. The temperature will be -1...-3 degrees at night, +1...+3 degrees during the day.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) signed memorandums of understanding on co-financing transport projects with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as the Development Bank of Kazakhstan worth total of 1.47 billion euros, the press service of the Delegation of the European Union to Uzbekistan said.

Director of the Water Resources Authority of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Sokeev spoke about what the country received in return for water supplies to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

The Global Gateway Investors Forum for EU-Central Asia Transport Connectivity opened today in Brussels, bringing together governments, financing institutions, businesses and civil society from Europe, Central Asia and beyond. European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announced that European and international financial institutions present at the Forum will commit €10 billion in support and investments towards sustainable transport connectivity in Central Asia.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed PM Abdulla Aripov to address the fully abandonning of AI-80 gasoline from 2025, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Uzgidromet unveiled the weather forecast for Tashkent city. There will be some rain on Monday, with 5−10 m/s westward wind and daytime air temperatures e within +5…+7 degrees Celsius range.

At today’s government meeting, Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed senior officials to prepare and submit to him proposals to solve the problem of traffic jams in Tashkent city, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Conflict of Interest Bill is being reviewed by experts from the Presidential Administration (PA), the Senate speaker Tanzila Narbaeva tol the Uzbek BBC service in London.

President chaired a government meeting on the works and priorities in the areas of housing, construction, utilities, transport and environmental protection.

Six people died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Margilan city, Fergana province, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Tashkent city public buses were used 241.7 million times in 2023. Toshshahartranskhizmat said. Public buses served an average of over 662.3 thousand passengers per day, which is 62% more than in 2022 (an average of 404.4 thousand passengers were transported in 2022).

Uzgidromet announced weather forecast for Tashkent city. No precipitation is expected on Saturday, January 27. Fog is possible at night and in the morning, with 3−8 m/s eastward wind and temperature at night within 0...-2 degrees range, during the day between +8...+10 degrees.

At 23:30, the Emergency Situations Service received a call about a fire near make-shift clothing market in a parking lot in the Shahrikhan district. Accordingly, 20 fire and rescue crews arrived on the scene at 23:32, the fire was localized was extinguished at 01:53.