A large 300,000 tons of ammonia and 360,000 tons of carbamide per year plant will be built in Yangier city of Sirdaryo province in 2019-2023, with technologies from South Korea, Germany, Japan, China and other countries, President Mirziyoyev said the Syrdarya province meeting ended by the local authorities, MPs and the public.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today arrived in Syrdarya province, the President's press service said. The head of the state visited the province last May. The purpose of the visit is to familiarize himself with the work aimed at improving the infrastructure, changes in the social sphere, as well as projects in various sectors of the economy.

Maruf Usmonov has been appointed as the mayor of Kokand city in the Ferghana province, the mayor's office said. Earlier, from March 2017 Maruf Usmonov had served as chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Civil Oversight bill into law. The law was developed to regulate affairs related to the exercise by citizens of Uzbekistan of the constitutional right to participate in the governance through exercise of civil oversight over the government activities.

ROSATOM State Corporation is currently discussing with the Government of Uzbekistan an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant, the general director of RosAtom Alexei Likhachev said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Deputy Interior Minister, chief of the Tashkent Police Department (TPD) Rustam Juraev commented on the "trend to grow beards" among the Tashkent’s youth at a meeting with the residents of Uchtepa district on Tuesday.

Sherzod Davlyatovich Kudbiev, who worked as the mayor of Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek District as of September 2016, has been appointed Minister of Employment and Labor Relations replacing Aktam Khaitov who was appointed as interim chairman of the Council of Farmers and Land Owners, the ministry said.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Uzbekistan Ministry of Health and the Republican Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Tuberculosis and Pulmonology, officially launched the Center for Innovative Distance Training and Monitoring in Tashkent and its regional satellite office in Bukhara.

25-year-old US national on Chevrolet Captiva hit a 33-year old woman in downtown Tashkent, last week Tashkent Police Department said in a statement.

Abdukahhor Tukhtaev, who served as mayor of Tashkent’s Olmazor district since April 2017, has appointed as the Minister of Construction, the district mayor’s office said.

A Bloggers Championship will kick off on 12 April 2018. The winners of the Championship will be determined in over 10 additional nominations, along with the main award.

Heads of the border agencies of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan banned the use of firearms against civilians, the press service of the Government of Kyrgyzstan said.

Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan political consultations took place in Ashgabat between the foreign ministries during which were discussed the draft program and agenda of the upcoming state visit of the Turkmen leader to Uzbekistan.

262 persons were acquitted by Uzbek criminal courts in 2017, while in 2012-2016 only 7 people were acquitted. Aziz Abidov, the official representative of the Supreme Court said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev by his April 9 decree appointed Gayrat Khidoyatov as the new Deputy Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan. Prior to this appointment, Gayrat Khidoyatov was the deputy state adviser to the President on political and legal issues.

United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Pamela L. Spratlen today announced the arrival from the U.S. to Uzbekistan of a humanitarian shipment of the cancer medication Temodar, which is used to treat brain tumors in adults.

US$ 130 million project for manufacturing of Hyundai trucks, initiated by the South Korean Evergreen Motors and Posco Daewoo, will be arranged in Kokand free economic zone (FEZ), UzA said.

After a 22-year break, we have finally nurtured a new academician. I think it was a big mistake that for a quarter of a century the Academy [of Sciences] was neglected. If we do not follow the path of intensive and innovative development, we will not be able to catch up with the developed world, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said in a meeting with scientists in the Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances Friday.

The bill signed into law by the President of Uzbekistan on April 4, now harshens the liability for the use of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment, Norma.uz reports.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius will visit Uzbekistan in May, Sputnik reported. This became known following the talks between the leadership of the Uzbek Foreign Trade Ministry and the Lithuanian Ambassador to Uzbekistan with residence in Moscow Remigijus Motuzas.