Kazakhstan has not received proposals from Uzbekistan and Russia regarding a tripartite gas union. This was reported by Kazakh media on Monday citing the official representative of the Kazakh Ministry of Energy Shyngys Ilyasov.

Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Plant has once again become the largest taxpayer in Uzbekistan. In 2022, the share of Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Plant in tax revenues from large taxpayers to the state budget topped 16.3 percent.

Turkmenistan has expressed concern about Russian official's statement that other countries were also seeking to join the "gas alliance" that now includes Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. This was stated by the Deputy chief of Turkmengas Myrad Archaev. His words were posted on the website of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.

On Saturday afternoon, five beams of an overpass under construction in front of the Tashkent international airport collapsed at once. The story about this surfaced on social networks.

The draft Uzbekistan-2030 strategy and the steps for its implementation in 2023 set a number of goals for the green transition and a sharp leap in the use of renewable energy, Dunyo said.

Uzbek soum depreciated by over 450 soums to the US dollar to over 12 thousand soums for 1 USD in a number of Uzbek banks' exchange offices.

Business forum kicked off at the Uzbek embassy in Beijing as part of the visit of the delegation of Navoi province to China, Dunyo said.

Uzbekistan has climbed to 30th place out of 195 countries in the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) ranking. Open Data Inventory (ODIN) identifies gaps in official statistics, promotes open data policies, improves communication between national statistical authorities and data users, and assesses openness.

Tripartite gas union of Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan can be expanded to include other countries, the Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Birichevsky.

Minister of Defense of Uzbekistan Bakhodir Kurbanov met with his Kazakh counterpart Ruslan Zhaksylykov in the Kazakh city of Aktau.

Please note that the editorial staff of the Tashkent Times is going on vacation and that the company office will be closed until August 14. We have to take this break to come back refreshed as we had a hard year with ups and downs. We offer you our warmest greetings!

Today, on August 1, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with a presentation on measures to increase reserves and increase the volume of development of minerals.

The body of a 30-year-old woman with traces of suffocation was found in a hotel in the Nurli Yul neighbourhood in Samarkand, the prosecutor's office of Samarkand province said.

The Minister of Defense Bakhodir Kurbanov hosted the Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Korea Lee Jong-sup on Tuesday.

The Criminal Court of the Mirabad district of Tashkent is completing the consideration of the criminal case against blogger Abduqodir Muminov. At the August 1 hearing, the prosecutor asked Judge Sardorbek Sadikov to sentence the blogger to 11 years in prison.

On July 27, the Uzbekistan delegation, headed by the President’s Envoy for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, attended the meeting of the special session on Afghanistan in the C5 + 1 (Central Asia + USA) format at the level of envoys for Afghanistan.

Bahram Mansurov has been appointed Director General of Uzatom under the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan, the UzA said today.

Uzbekistan authorities are eyeing to halve the number of road traffic accidents with serious consequences by 2030. This is provided for by the draft Uzbekistan-2030 strategy, posted for public input the day before.

Integration of ATMs of Uzcard and Humo payment systems has been completed, Uzcard announced on Monday. Now all ATMs in the country accept cards of both systems.

Schoolboy jumped from the fifth floor in Tashkent’s Shaykhantakhur district while trying to escape from Islamic classes taught illegally and with violence by a native of Kashkadarya province. The boy hung on the extension cord, and then fell down, Hudud program of the MY5 TV channel reported.