Friday, 29, March, 2024

National

The journalist of Ozodlik, the Uzbek service of Radio Liberty, Umid Bobomatov, was deported from Uzbekistan at Tashkent airport on 4 June, he said on his Facebook page.

The Ministry of Employment responded to the message on the Sizdan Telegram (transl. Telegram From You) channel, where it was reported about the case of forced of schoolchildren to sweep roads and irrigation ditches in Guzar district of Kashkadarya province.

Benoy has released its masterplan vision for a new capital city on a vast expanse of land immediately east of Tashkent, covering an area of 20,000 hectares. As a twin to the existing capital, the city has been designed to revitalise the Old City whilst bringing renewed strength, prosperity and identity to this growing nation in Central Asia.

The BBC Uzbek service journalist Avazbek Takhirov has been accredited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and now is able to perform activities within Uzbekistan.

Saida Mirziyoyeva, the elder daughter of the President Mirziyoyev, posted on her Facebook page a photo on which the President of Uzbekistan is cooking pilaf.

The Tashkent province governor Gulomjon Ibragimov left his job due to his being moved to another role, the presidential press service said.

The biggest problem is that the Uzbekistan education system cannot provide the labor market with qualified specialists, the Labor Minister Sherzod Kudbiyev said today at a press briefing.

The newly-made roof of the international arrivals terminal of the Islam Karimov Airport was clearly not impervious to heavy rain on Monday evening.

Ahead of the Eid al Fitr, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Pardoning A Group of Persons Serving Sentences, Who Have Sincerely Repented Their Deed Decree, a source in the government said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting in Tashkent province proposed dividing the Tashkent province into two provinces, the province governor's office said.

The first meeting of the Joint Commission at the level of heads of government of Russia and Uzbekistan was held in Urgench on May 30,as per the decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin 2019.

To meet growing demand for employment in rural areas and improve food security, Uzbekistan needs to strengthen the role of the private sector in its economy by accelerating reforms, improving institutional framework, and exploring opportunities for regional integration in Central Asia, according to the 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) launched today by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) at the International Conference on Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition in Central Asia in Tashkent.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the President of the European Council Donald Tusk. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, warmly welcoming the high guest, noted with satisfaction the enhanced political dialogue and productive cooperation with the European Union in the trade and economic, innovation, scientific, technical and cultural-humanitarian fields.

The area near the Lake Tuzkan of the Aydar-Arnasay lakes system in the Jizzakh province has been identified as the priority site for the nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, Uzatom agency reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on May 28 establishing new procedure for e-visas, the Committee for Tourism Development reported.

The agreement on mutual recognition of education and qualifications, degrees was signed by the governments of Uzbekistan and Russia at the meeting of the joint commission on May 30 in Urgench.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the interior ministries of the Commonwealth of Independent States attending the events of the Council of Interior Ministers of the CIS in Tashkent.

The initiative of a new economic corridor among Shymkent-Tashkent-Khujand and the surrounding oblasts can expand the regional dynamism and promote economic integration in the region, according to the inception workshop organized by the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC), for which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) serves as the secretariat.

The next meeting of the Council of Interior Ministers of the CIS Member States (CIM) will be held in Tashkent on May 30 - June 1, the CIS Executive Committee reported.

In the holy month of Ramadan, Uzbekistan authorities, as part of the “Goodness” humanitarian operation today by a special flight, brought back 156 Uzbekistan nationals, mostly women and children, from the zone of armed conflicts in the Middle East, the presidential press service said in a statement.