Uzgidromet unveiled the weather forecast for Tashkent city for the weekend. There will be no precipitation in the city May 2-4. Daytime temperatures on Saturday and Sunday will reach +32…+35 degrees Celsius.

Today, at the government meeting in Urgench district, chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the president called transport costs as the main obstacle to the rapid development of tourism in Khorezm province.

12,746 Uzbeks received subsidies for power generated by their solar panels delivered to the national power grid in Q1 of this year, the Tax Committee said in a report.

The international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its annual press freedom rating (2025 World Press Freedom Index).

On May 1, 2025, an event was organized at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture (LBSCIC) where the Indian community and Friends of India paid homage to the innocent victims of the Pahalgam terror attack of April 22, 2025.

During his trip to the Khorezm province, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev inspected the railway infrastructure, the presidential press service said today.

The Central Asia - Gulf Cooperation Council Summit scheduled for May 5 in the city of Samarkand has been postponed by consent of the parties, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Prices for methane have increased to 5,200-5,300 soums per cubic meter at CNG filling stations (AGNS) in Tashkent and other provinces of Uzbekistan starting today.

The EVs disposal fee will rise starting from May 1. According to the resolution signed by the Prime Minister on January 31, the fee will be raised:

Government delegations of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan signed an agreement on joint management of the Amu Darya water basin and fair and rational use of water. The details of the document were disclosed by the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture.

A plane full of Central Asian illegal immigrants departed from the U.S. to Uzbekistan under a deal brokered between the two governments, Fox News Digital said. 

Voltalia announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Urgench in Uzbekistan to develop human capital by introducing new nationally accredited training program focused on renewable energy. This ambitious project is co-financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and aims to equip young graduates at Bachelor and Master levels with the technical skills needed to thrive in the growing renewable energy sector in Uzbekistan.

Two people died, five were hospitalized in a fire in a synthetic padding workshop in the industrial zone in the Yakkasaray district of Tashkent on the morning of May 1, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

Urumqi hosted Uzbekistan-China Economic Forum Wednesday, on April 30. The opening ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and a delegation led by Ma Xinzhuy, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The Ukrainian national project "I Want to Live", created to help Russian soldiers voluntarily surrender, published a list of 1,110 Uzbek nationals who signed a contract with the Russian Armed Forces and participated in military operations against Ukraine.

The traditional Teacher of the Year Contest among school teachers in Uzbekistan will take place every two years from 2026. The new regulation for the Contest were approved by the April 28 Cabinet of Ministers’ resolution of, the Ministry of Justice said.

The MPs of the Legislative Chamber passed the amendments and addenda to certain regulations aimed at further improvement of the licensing, permitting and notification procedures, developed by the Ministry of Justice.

Judge of Mirabad District Court Rustam Rakhmonov who was accused of stealing a car while drunk, has been sacked. The Judges Supreme Council has provided additional information on the disciplinary investigation conducted against him.

For the first time in history, Uzbekistan was unanimously elected to the UN Statistical Commission for 2026-2029. The electing took place on April 22 during the meeting of commission members in New York, the press service of the National Statistics Committee said.

The delegations of the three parties to the Ustyurt Memorandum — Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan — signed a roadmap to enhance nature conservation on the Ustyurt Plateau. The Michael Succow Foundation (charity foundation for nature conservation) and the Secretariat of the Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Animals provided assistance in developing the document.