Tuesday, 24, June, 2025

National

The aviation authorities of Uzbekistan and Oman recently held talks to discuss the launch of direct air flights between the two countries, including planned Uzbekistan bound flights by Oman Air, the Ministry of Transport said.

The government meeting chaired by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday featured a presentation of the future subway line from Tashkent to New Tashkent will be 21 km long and have 9 stations.

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a visit to Astana to attend the second Central Asia-China Summit, the presidential press service said.

Children from Ukraine are completing their recreation and rehabilitation program in Uzbekistan, organized for them in the Anor camp in the Bostanlyk district of the Tashkent province, the Ukrainian Ambassador Nikolai Doroshenko said on his Facebook page.

The Tashkent’s Shaykhantakhur district criminal court issued a verdict against the former MP Kabul Dusov today, the spokesman to the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov said.

Not a single traffic accident involving minors was recorded near schools from January to March 2025, announced the Road Safety Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during a press tour on Friday.

Governors, mayors and ministers must switch to proactive methods of work, said Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a government meeting on the effectiveness of reforms, the state of affairs in the provinces and the search for solutions to concern of the public today morning. the spokesman to the president Sherzod Asadov said.

Uzgidromet posted the weather forecast in Tashkent city for the business week. Dry and very hot air from the south will spread across the whole country From the beginning of the business week.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at a government meeting on the effectiveness of reforms, the state of affairs in the provinces and the search for solutions to concern of the public today, touched upon the conflict in the Middle East.

Uzbekistan Airways announced the suspension of on the Tashkent to Tel Aviv flights from June 16 to 30, due to the closure of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

Three minors drowned in a reservoir in the Parkent district of the Tashkent province, the spokesman to the Attorney General's Office, Khayot Shamsutdinov said today.

Dry and hotter air will begin to move from the south to the territory of Uzbekistan from today, Uzgidromet said. Partly cloudy weather will prevail in Tashkent, without precipitation. The temperature on Friday afternoon will be within +36…+38 degrees Celsius range.

The Russian Rosatom said it had upscaled nuclear power plant projects for Uzbekistan. Now, both large and small-scale nuclear power plants will be erected in the country. This announcement was made by Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development following the bilateral working group meeting on the margins of the Tashkent International Investment Forum, Interfax said.

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry issued a statement voicing “serious concern” over Israel’s military operation against Iran today.

Uzbekistan will become the world's most competitive producer of green energy, stated at the Tashkent International Investment Forum the founder and CEO of the Saudi ACWA Power, Mohammad Abunayyan Wednesday.

Having qualified for the World Cup, Uzbekistan national team will now be aiming to play in a number of friendly matches against world’s football powerhouses.

On the sidelines of the Tashkent International Investment Forum and the Foreign Investors Council meeting, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the CEOs of Standard Chartered, International Hospitals Group, LVMH and Airbus.

Janos Kovacs has been appointed a new CEO of UzAuto Motors, replacing Bo Andersson who resigned in December 2024, the company's press service said today. 

Uzatom and the French Assystem signed a memorandum of intent, which stipulates the creation of a joint venture in Tashkent, the press service of Uzatom said.

Reports surfaced on social media that individuals may be engaged in taxi driver job in their own province only, meaning taht in Tashkent city, only cars with license plate starting with “01” (Tashkent city local plate) shall be only issued taxi permits.