Monday, 20, January, 2025

National

Reports surfaced on social networks that a little girl was seriously injured due to the fault of her nanny. The Children's Ombudsperson's Office has studied the situation and taken it under control.

In an interview to the Foreign Ministry’s Dunyo news agency Alberto Turkstra, project manager of the Diplomatic World Institute think tank shared his thoughts on the Uzbekistan-EU ties in 2024.

Private airline Qanot Sharq announced the cancellation of a number of flights from January 20 to March 6 due to "operational necessity".

Uzbek Ambassador Alisher Tukhtayev met with the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Jamil Ahmed. During the meeting, the parties discussed in detail the ways to improve interbank payments in order to boost the two-way trade.

Uzgidromet posted Tashkent city weather forecast for business week. On January 7, humid and cold air from the Caspian Sea regions will move to Uzbekistan.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed the Additional measures to improve state control in the field of industrial, radiation, and nuclear safety Decree, outlining plans to join international nuclear safety treaties, and establish new inspections bodies within the Committee for Industrial, Radiation, and Nuclear Safety.

There are reports circulating on social media about metapneumovirus infection and that this infection was more dangerous than COVID-19.

On December 4, the Andijan city criminal court issued a verdict against an Uzbek man who was had been conscripted by the Russia army in the invasion of Ukraine.

Three new automatic air quality monitoring stations have been launched in Tashkent as part of the joint Automation of Air Pollution Monitoring project by Zamin Foundation, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Agency of Hydrometeorological Service (Uzgidromet).

New railway project between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan due to be completed in 2027 has been launched, the press service of the Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) said.

Marches of military units of the Ministry of Defense and the National Guard took place along the main streets of Tashkent to mark the 33rd anniversary of the founding of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and Defenders of the Motherland Day.

Man posted a video footage of himself accelerating to 310 km/h on a BMW S1000 RR sportbike in Tashkent and posted the video on social networks. He was brought to administrative liability, said the spokesman to the Traffic police unit of the Tashkent city police department, Kakhramon Khudoyberganov.

A young man serving in the engineering and construction battalion of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Nukus city of Karakalpakstan attacked five people, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent condolences to the US President Joseph Biden over numerous casualties after the terrorist attack in New Orleans, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

On January 3, the Tashkent city criminal court partially upheld the appeal filed by Gayrat Dustov and his attorneys, reducing his 15-day administrative arrest to 8 days. Since the revised sentence had already been served, Dustov was released directly from the courtroom.

Beakbad city criminal court issued verdict to the police officer who beat to death a man in the Bekabad city police department’s building.

Jasurbek Shodiev was issued a fine after publishing an Instagram video footage in Tashkent province which shows him standing on a stack of toilet paper packs, into which a car crashed, and afterwards he jumped, the spokesman to the Tashkent city police department said.

12-year-old girl became pregnant in the Bukhara province. She was taken to the city's perinatal center. a source told the Tashkent Times. Reportedly, the girl is in the 4th month of pregnancy.

GM Damas driver Gayrat Dustov has become an unlikely hero of social networks during the New Year holidays in Uzbekistan, his video footage where he criticized (with occasional swearing) a gas filling station where he reportedly stood in a queue for 3 days and was unable to buy gasoline overshadowed all other stories. Against the backdrop of restrictions on the operation of gas stations, the man is seen showing his trainers with worn soles became a hero.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to effectively launch strategic analysis and research in the social, political and economic development of Uzbekistan Decree Tuesday, the Ministry of Justice said.