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.

The size of Uzbekistan-bound money remittances in Q1 of 2022 slightly increased, the Central Bank said in statement. In three months, the country received transfers worth $1.47 billion, which is $49 million or 3% more compared to the same period last year.

In 2021, the volume of money remittances to Uzbekistan topped $8.07 billion, which is by 34% more than in 2020 and 2019 (6 billion). Russia accounted for 70% of transfers last year — $5.67 billion. But due to the economic situation in the Russian Federation due to the war in Ukraine and sanctions, World Bank experts in early March predicted a decrease in transfers to Uzbekistan by 21% instead of the expected growth of 3%.

Auction for the land plot on which the Aggregate Plant was located on Usta Shirin Street in Almazar district of Tashkent was completed on the E-auksion trading platform.

In two months the export of pomegranates from Uzbekistan surpassed 5 thousand tons, the State Statistics Committee said in a report.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Cyber ​​Security Bill into Law. The draft was not posted on the portal for discussing draft regulations. The Law establishes that the State Security Service shall become responsible in the field of cybersecurity. It will conduct operational-search activities, pre-investigation checks and investigations on cybersecurity incidents, i.e. failures in the operation of information systems and (or) violations of the availability of information in them, integrity and its free use.