The Embassy of Bangladesh, Uzbekistan celebrated the Bangladesh Youth Festival 2025 in Tashkent on 13-16 January 2025 with color, vibrancy and enthusiasm.

Uzbekistan was ranked 98th out of 116 countries in English language proficiency, ahead of Kazakhstan (103) and Tajikistan (109), but lags behind Afghanistan (95) and Kyrgyzstan (88), according to the English Proficiency Index 2024 prepared by Sweden-based international education company Education First.

Four more Uzbekistan nationals died in Türkiye after drinking counterfeit alcoholic beverages Thursday, the Consulate General in Istanbul said.

Uzgidromet posted a weather forecast for Tashkent city on January 17-19. It will rain from time to time in the city on January 18 at night and while it could rain and snow on January 19 . Fog is possible at night and in the morning. The air temperature on Saturday and Sunday will be 0...+2 degrees Celsius range at night, and between +4...+7 degrees during the day.

Customs officers at the Gishtkuprik border post with Kazakhstan prevented two attempts to illegally import 717 deer antlers, the Tashkent province Customs Department said.

Uzbekistan will create a joint scientific satellite in cooperation with the Turkic states, said the head of Aerospace Department at Uzbekcosmos agency, Mukhiddin Ibragimov at a press conference in Tashkent Thursday.

Law enforcement bodies in Tashkent arrested an Uchtepa district mayor’s assistant in makhallas in charge of business support, employment and poverty reduction while he was receiving $30 thousand, UzA said.

Murodilla Zabikhullaev, 29, who hit on a GM Lacetti and killed a girl who was crossing a pedestrian walkway was sentenced to 6 years in prison in Tashkent. The driver, who sped at 112.7 km/h, refused to help the gtil, saying, "I won’t carry a corpse in my car." The 19-year-old girl passed away before medical assistance arrived.

The Customs Committee commented on social media reports about the need to declare mobile devices that are being imported into Uzbekistan.

The nominatee for the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said that the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in US relations on the Central Asian countries was a "relic of an era that’s past" in the Senate confirmation hearing replying to the question by the senator Steve Daines.

Two residents of the Urgut district of the Samarkand province were convicted of illicit cross border drug trafficking and smuggling, the UzA said.

Syrdarya province governor Akmaljon Makhmudaliev, who had been in charge of the province since the end of 2022, was fired. The sacking was announced by the president at the government meeting on investment today. Sherzod Asadov, the spokesman to the president said.

A video footage of a robbery at a pharmacy circulated across social networks. The footage shows a man threatening the pharmacy worker with a knife and takes money from the cash desk.

Uzbekistan's gross domestic product grew by 6.5% to reach $115 billion in 2024. This was announced at a government meeting on investment chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed Al Nahyan held head-to-head talks and between official delegations at the Qasr al-Shati residence in Abu Dhabi Wednesday.

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Declaration on Establishment of Strategic Partnership was signed following the talks between the presidents of Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, the presidential press service said.

The draft 2025 state program, posted for public input, includes an item proposing to assess the degree of propensity to corruption of at least 500 senior civil servants and those in reserve for these positions will be assessed in 2025.

An Uzbek national, Umid Kaimov, 40 attacked another man with a knife at the Krasnoyarsk airport in Russia, Baza said on Tuesday.

According to Norma, the state budget will subsidize the construction and material equipping of small hotels in districts and cities. Subsidies shall only be provided for new hotels built from scratch depending on the category and number of rooms, registered from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026.