Jaslyq colony in Karakalpakstan was not fully closed, there are about a hundred people sentenced to life imprisonment, the chief of the Ezgulik Human Rights Society Abdurakhmon Tashanov told the Kun.uz.

The Jizzakh province prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against a male in Jizzakh province Bakhmal district V.K., 52, for insulting the president on the Internet.

On April 19, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with a presentation on measures to transform Uzbekistan Airways and Uzbekistan Airports, the press service of the head of state said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has invited a full-fledged mission of the Bureau for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to Uzbekistan to observe the presidential elections, the spokesman to the President Sherzod Asadov announced at a briefing today.

The Uzbek-Chinese vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC2001 has shown efficacy against the British and Brazilian strains of coronavirus, the Ministry of Innovation said in a statement.

The Ministry of Energy reacted to media reports on holding exhibition, said that there were no plans to hold oil, gas or energy exhibitions in 2021.

The meeting of the National Anti-Coronavirus Commission, chaired by the PM Aripov, discussed the delivery of vaccines, and in particular, the Sputnik V.

Uzbekistan and Russia are continuing to the draft text of the nuclear power plant deal in Uzbekistan, stated the adviser to the director general of Rosatom Alexander Merten, Spitnik reported.

On Saturday, the Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov chaired the meeting of the National Anti-Coronavirus Commission. In his opening remarks, the PM expressed concern about the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases detected daily - from about 15 per day at the beginning of the year to more than 300.

Uzbekistan sought technical assistance from Russia to create a system of state cadastral valuation and develop the tax administration system, the press service of the Ministry of Finance said.

Samarkand city’s area​ will increase from the current 12.4 thousand to 30.5 thousand hectares due to adding of part of the territories of the nearby five districts - Samarkand, Pastdargom, Taylak and Akdarya districts, making Samarkand over a million population city, announced the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his visit to the Samarkand province.

The Cabinet of Ministers issued a resolution on April 14 approving the opening of a branch of the Warsaw High School of Management Collegium Humanum will in Andijan.

The volume money remittances to Uzbekistan topped US$ 1.42 billion in January-March, an increase compared to the same period in 2020 by US$ 336 million, or 31%, the Central Bank said. The volume of funds sent abroad stood at US$ 353 million.

Mariam Tillyaeva, the granddaughter of the late president Islam Karimov, married the Russian blogger, author of the Diary Of A Khach vlog, Amiran Sardarov.

At a meeting in the Samarkand province on Friday, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke about the importance of the Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railway project, which is being implemented by Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On April 14, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden Ann Linde, who is in Uzbekistan on a working visit, the presidential press service said.

The North-South corridor stretches from the European Union to the Suez Canal on the one side, and from the European Union to the ports of India and Pakistan on the other. Transportation costs through the corridor are expected to be reduced by 30-40 percent.

On April 12, the Ministry of Justice registered a branch of the International Research and Exchanges Council (IREX), the head office of which is located in the United States.

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held an online summit with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, the presidential press service said.

The Central Asia is up for grabs for the first time in almost 200 years and Uzbekistan is the region’s pivot. That is to say, a real chance exists for the Silk Road countries, aka the ‘Stans, to fulfill their own destiny undiverted by outside powers. But that chance may not be a strong one, may indeed falter, unless all the regional and global forces align, the story by Melik Kalyan on Forbes said.