President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the visiting Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, the presidential press service said in a statement.

The chief of the Main Office of Patrol-Guard Service and Public Safety Protection under the Ministry of Internal Affairs , Lieutenant-Colonel Dilshod Akramov was found dead on August 4 at approximately 9:10 am with signs of violent death in his office at Taras Shevchenko street in Tashkent, the Prosecutor General's Office reported. Dilshod Akramov headed this department since July.

Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov today met with the visiting Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to Create Modern Business City Districts in Uzbekistan Decree. The "Business Cities" will be built in the districts and cities of Karakalpakstan, provinces and the Tashkent city.

As part of the visit to France, the Uzbek delegation led by Foreign Trade Minister Jamshid Khodjaev held talks with the leadership of the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the French Department of Phytosanitary and the Institute of Agronomy, Veterinary and Forestry, in order to study the ways to enhance bilateral cooperation, discuss the current state of bilateral trade relations and the ways to expand bilateral trade.

On August 2, a footage was posted on the Internet and went viral on the social networks in which shopkeepers of a market in the Beruni district of Karakalpakstan caught a guy, suspected of theft and decided to take the law into their own hands.

The Institute of Problems of Legislation and Parliamentary Studies under the Oliy Majlis and representative office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Germany) in Uzbekistan signed a memorandum of understanding.

On August 4, the Foreign Minister of India Sushma Swaraj will pay an official visit to Tashkent, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov today met with his visiting Palestinian counterpart Riad Malki on August 1, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday signed the Countering Extremism Bill into Law. It was passed by the Legislative Chamber on June 12 and was approved by the Senate on June 28 and was published tody in Xalq So’zi newspaper.

Dilmurod Nabiyev has been appointed as new Minister of Sports replacing Shoakrom Isroilov, who was moved to another role last week, a source in the government told The Tashkent Times.

Uzbekistan Railways will raise ticket prices for Afrosiyob high-speed trains by 35% as of August 15, the company said in a statement today: 

The Prosecutor General's Office announced that the ex-chief of the Investigation Department of the National Security Service (now - the State Security Service) Oleg Vladimirovich Busygin now wanted for extortion of particularly large sums of money, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

The Uzbek Ministry of Public Education is inviting foreign investors to open private schools in the country, the ministry said.

Delegation of the State of Palestine, led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riad Malki, will arrive in Tashkent on Wednesday, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Webster University (USA) is launching its academic programs in Uzbekistan, the Foreign Ministry said. As part of the visit of the Uzbek delegation including the rectors of several universities  In St. Louis, Missouri, cooperation agreements were signed with Webster University, providing for the opening of its branch in Tashkent, including the launch of the TESL ​​(Teaching English as Second Language ) program with the Uzbek State University of World Languages as of September.

Procedure for Ensuring Safety in Courts, Trials and Their Participants has been amended Saturday and now attorneys for defense are allowed to bring computers, mobile and other communication devices into courts save for closed court proceedings, Norma.uz reported.

The State Security Service (DXX) of Uzbekistan arrested the first deputy mayor of Navbakhor district of Navoi province, Oybek Hayyrov red-handedly when he was taking a bribe.

Urgench airport, closed since 16 July for technical reasons, is expected to re-open on August 10, the acting Khorezm governor Farkhod Ermanov said in his Facebook page.

Over the past two and a half decades, Uzbekistan has undergone a steady demographic transition. Fertility levels and child mortality have reached low and steady levels. The country’s population, although still growing, has stabilized while remaining youthful. And the share of dependents (children under 15 years of age and people over 65 years of age) in the total population has declined over previous decades.