President Shavkat Mirziyoyev By the of of October 4 decree scarpped the visa requirement for French citizens as of October 5, 2018 for a stay not exceeding 30 days, the Committee for Tourism said.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations has prepared the draft of the so-called Hydrometeorological Authority’s Innovative Development Concept for 2019-2025.

In July-August of 2018, the National Scientific Center for Employment under the Ministry of Employment conducted a sociological study, the center reported.

According to the October 4 presidential decree, information technologies will be introduced in the Uzbekistan elections, the Foreign Ministry said.

The Ministries of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan signed a protocol on cooperation in the law enforcement and on the fight against crime for 2019-2020, the Uzbek Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Uzbekistan and India may create technology parks for software and innovative products. Uzbekistan is repoterdly planning to cooperate with the Indian Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) to set up platforms for the development of software products.

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are actively working on creation of the “Central Asian Schengen zone”, an area foreigners could visit on a single visa.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a meeting on Wednesday on the state of affairs in the energy sector, the presidential press service said.

Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of the late President Islam Karimov, is currently in Uzbekistan and is serving her 5-year sentence, a source in the government said.

Komil Allamjonov has been sacked as deputy chief of the presidential administration — press secretary to the President of Uzbekistan, a source in the presidential administration said, with reasons for firing not known.

First Deputy Interior Minister of Uzbekistan, Major-General Davron Nazarmuhamedov hosted the Vice President of Interpol Major-General Alexander Prokopchuk and the representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Uzbekistan Eugenie Fedotov, the Uzbek interior ministry said.

Rakhmonbek Usmanov, who served as Tashkent city mayor from 2011 to April, 2018, has been appointed as the Tashkent's Yunusabad district mayor, the mayor's office said.

The Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) is looking at funding Aral Sea’s climate change adaptation and prevention programme worth $20 million in partnership with the World Bank in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Qobil Nosirov, a deputy of the Uzbek MP said.

Uzbekistan delegation led by Minister of Public Education Sherzod Shermatov held talks with U.S. Secretary of Education Elisabeth DeVos in Washington on Tuesday, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Uzbekistan ratified several international treaties, Norma.uz reported. Uzbekistan ratified the Paris Climate Agreement (Paris, December 12, 2015) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020. The Paris Agreement's long-term goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels; and to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, since this would substantially reduce the risks and effects of climate change.

Iman Karimova, Gulnara Karimova’s daughter, is in London now, she said on her Instagram page. Her brother Islam Karimov Jr. lives in London.

Radisson Blu Hotel hosted the III Annual Best Employer 2018 Award Thursday. The founder and organizer of the Award - DaVinci Management Consulting specializes in analyzing and creating business management system, developing and implementing business processes and human capital development.

On September 22, 2018, the deputy from UzLiDeP of the Namangan province council of deputies O. Tukhtanazarov was arrested while taking US$ 500 from I.M. in Chust district, the General Prosecutor’s Office.

In Malandiyon makhalla (neigbourhood) in Uzun district of the Surkhandarya province at about 9:30 pm on Tuesday, citizen T.A. found the corpse of the 12-year-old daughter of Sh. A. in the basement of his house with bodily injuries, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev today arrived in India on a state visit, presidential press service said. President Mirziyoyev reportedly began his trip with the visit to Agra. Here Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit the world famous Taj Mahal.