Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over $1.4 million worth of modern energy sector management equipment and software to the Coordinating Dispatch Center (CDC) Energia in Tashkent. The official handover ceremony showcased cutting-edge technology which will allow CDC Energia’s dispatchers to display relevant information for maintaining the region’s energy regime.

Uzbek law enforcement launched two criminal cases against Kyrgyz MP Emil Zhamgyrchiev, today announced the chief of the Kyrgyz State National Security Committee, Kamchybek Tashiev at a meeting of the Kyrgyz parliament.

Uzbek Ambassador to the UK, Ravshan Usmanov met with the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, Leo Docherty.

6.6 million foreign nationals visited Uzbekistan in 2023, the Statistics Agency said in a report. The purposes of travel of foreign nationals were reportedly the following:

Flight operations at the Bukhara International Airport were suspended briefly today as a dust storm hit the city, Uzbekistan Airports said.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a government meeting on January 8 dedicated to job creation and easing doing business, the presidential press service said.

Man brutally beat his 13-year-old son In Urgench, the spokesman to the Ministry of Internal Affairs Shokhrukh Giyasov said, commenting the footage that surfaced on social networks.

Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change deployed first electric vehicles for waste collection, the ministry’s press service said.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree scrapping 16 types of licenses and permits for business entities as of March 1, the Ministry of Justice said.

Turkish law enforcement agencies arrested Uzbek national Alisher Tursunov, AKA Mubashshir Akhmad, on the morning of December 28, Azon Global portal, which he founded, said.

Talks took place at Highways Committee with executives of Saudi-based Al Bawani and Sajco companies. They discussed the 38-km length Syrdarya-Bakht bypass road project on M39 Tashkent-Termez highway.

Drugs were found and seized from a resident of Jambay district in Samarkand province in an operation, UzA said. The search in the house and outbuildings in the yard of A.A., 40,, 31.8 kg of marijuana, 2 grams of opium and 2 tablets of a psychotropic drug.

Two people in Nukus city got poisoned with a substance of unknown etiology, the mayor’s Jan. 6 decision to study the causes of the accident said.

Average price of 1 liter of premium (AI-95) gasoline in the world was at 16,028 soums on January 1, 2024, Globalpetrolprices said in a study.

Uzgidromet announced the Tashkent city weather forecast for Tuesday, January 9. The weather will be slightly cloudy, with no precipitation expected, a fog in the morning and 3-8 m/s eastward wind. The temperature will be +2...+4 degrees at night, +12...+14 degrees during the day.

Minister of Investment Laziz Qudratov and the visiting Kazakh Minister of Trade and Integration Arman Shakkaliev held talks and agreed to set up a joint working group to lift trade barriers on Friday.

Tashkent public transport will get two hydrogen buses (hydrobuses) as part of a pilot project with the Saudi company ACWA Power, the Ministry of Energy said.

President signed decree on January 4 allowing businesses, that own cameras for recording traffic violations will be entitled to record environmental violations.

The State Asset Management Agency announced the approval of the sale of the government stake in Uzbekistan Champagne.

The Tashkent city council of deputies by its Dec.28, 2023 resolution approved the Tashkent city's 2024 budget. The council meeting was not broadcast live. Prior to the adoption of the budget, its draft was not published for public input.