President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has accepted the invitation of the president of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan on February 7-9.

Quadrilateral meeting with the participation of senior officials of the ministries of transport and railway authorities of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Qatar took place on February 6 in Tashkent, the Ministry of Transport said.

National Agency for Prospective Projects (NAPP will sue the international crypto exchange Binance to pay a fine for operating in the country without a license, the First deputy director of the agency Vyacheslav Pak said.

An unnamed official of the private Panorama Airways has been taken into custody, the Prosecutor General's Office said today. The preventive measure was taken as part of a criminal case initiated by the Transport Prosecutor's Office against officials of the airline due to the “failure to take measures to bring back from Saudi Arabia passengers who went to Umrah, and other serious breaches of the law,” with investigation currently underway in this criminal case.

Forest cover has expanded in Uzbekistan, the director of the Forestry Agency Nizomiddin Bakirov said at the meeting of the Legislative Chamber. 

Uzbekistan was the second gold seller in 2023, slightly behind Kazakhstan. This is stated in the information of the World Gold Council (WGC) said in a report.

Minister of Environmental Protection Aziz Abdukhakimov said that harsher penalties for illegal downing of trees was on the table. “Among businesses there were those who, anticipating the cutting down of trees, added the applicable fines to design estimates. If penalties are seriously increased, businesses would think about whether to cut down a tree or not,” the minister said.

In Chartak district of Namangan province, an emergency department paramedic manufactured and sold counterfeit drugs at home, including Zodak, Anaferon, Hilak Forte and Vitamin B6, the press service of the State Security Service said.

Israel's government said on Sunday it would bring in 65,000 foreign workers from India, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan to resume construction stalled since Oct. 7 when Palestinian workers were sent home in the wake of the attack on Israel by Hamas.

Surkhandarya-based “blogger” Otabek Sattoriy, sentenced to 6.5 years in prison on charges of libel and extortion, was released, the press service of Kashkadarya province court said.

The Tashkent subway launches phased replacement of outdated escalators with new ones, the press service of the Tashkent subway said in a statement.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reaffirms its dedication to advancing women’s empowerment in the information technology (IT) sector in Central Asia. Today, USAID partners gathered at the IT Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and the impact of the Tumaris.Tech and FoundHer initiatives.

Uzbeks will be offered 100 thousand jobs in the Republic of Korea, the External Labor Migration Agency said today in an announcement.

Танцевальные игры на ПК – это вид onlayn o'yinlar, которые предлагают игрокам танцевать под музыку, следуя определенным движениям на экране. Обычно игрокам нужно использовать специальные контроллеры или датчики движения, чтобы воспроизводить движения персонажей на экране в синхронии с ритмом музыки. В зависимости от игры, игроки могут танцевать в одиночку или соревноваться с другими игроками.

Mogfurullah Shahab, the son of the Minister of Mines and Oil of Afghanistan, was appointed the chief of the Afghan embassy in Uzbekistan by the Taliban movement on February 2.

Conflict occurred on February 3 at a gas station in the Dangara district of the Fergana province, as a result of which a 22-year-old man died, the spokesman to the General Prosecutor's Office, Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

South Koreas university will open its branch in Syrdarya, the Dunyo reported. It was reported that the visiting delegation led by the president of Sun Moon University of South Korea, Son Jae-moon held talks with the governor of Syrdarya province, Akmaljon Makhmudaliev.

Kongratbay Sharipov was named by presidential decree to the position of Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Uzgidromet unveiled the weather forecast for Tashkent city for the weekend. There will be no precipitation on Friday and Saturday. The temperature at night will be within −2…−4 degrees Celsius, while in the +4…+6 degrees range during the day.

Total number of deaths in 2023 was at 172.8 thousand people, the Statistics Agency's said in a report. In recent years, the peak increase in deaths was reached in 2020 (13.6%), which is apparently due to the coronavirus pandemic. In the next two years - 2021 and 2022 - fewer people died than in each previous year (by 0.6% and 1.4%, respectively). Growth again appeared only at the end of 2023 - by 0.4% compared to the previous year.