At its BOD meeting on October 26, the Central Bank decided to keep the interest rate at 14% per annum, the regulator’s press service reported.

Tashkent hosted the International Conference - Youth Rights: Opportunities and Protection Mechanisms, the Dunyo reported on Wednesday.

Regular meetings of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Eurasian Economic Union will be held in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan on October 25-26, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan reported.

Uzbekistan ranked 78th in the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2023, which measured rule of law adherence in 142 countries worldwide. Featuring primary data, the WJP Rule of Law Index measures countries’ rule of law performance across eight factors: Constraints on Government Powers, Absence of Corruption, Open Government, Fundamental Rights, Order and Security, Regulatory Enforcement, Civil Justice, and Criminal Justice.

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) vows to expedite the line D project of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline, the company said.

9 Russian airlines have filed applications to launch new flights to Tashkent ,including Aeroflot, UTair, IrAero, NordStar, Ural Airlines, Smartavia, AZUR Air, Nord Wind and Yakutia., the Russian Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia reported.

On October 23, Minister of Transport Ilhom Mahkamov met with the Qatar Ministry of Transport's Acting Assistant Undersecretary of Land Transport, Hamad Issa Abdullah.

Officials of the Yandex Go online ride hailing service told how work is going on to become a tax resident in Uzbekistan on Wednesday.

Today, we are co-hosting a roundtable with the Ministry of Justice on the current situation of Free Legal Aid in Uzbekistan, underlining the importance of evaluating recent developments in the country and their impact on the broader legal and societal landscape.

Picture surfaced on social networks in which the chief of Uchkuprik district financial department of Fergana province and the mayor’s assistant are playing cards for money. In the photograph, a group of people were pictured playing cards and placing bets in a premises which appears to be an office.

Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, who previously served as Minister of higher education, science and innovation, was appointed Minister of agriculture, replacing Aziz Voitov.

The Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov during his visit to Luxembourg held talks with the Foreign Minister of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis.

Aziz Voitov has been fired from the Minister of Agriculture role, a source in the government told the Tashkent Times on Tuesday.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued its annual report  on the incidence and hazards of sand and dust storms, as well as their impacts on society. It also takes a look at how climate change may potentially increase sand and dust storm hotspots.

On October 24 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Administrator Samantha Power chaired the C5+1 Regional Connectivity Ministerial with the governments of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. During the ministerial, Administrator Power announced an additional $14.3 million in regional programming demonstrating the deepening partnerships between the United States and Central Asian countries.

Following the first Ministerial meeting on regional cooperation of the C5+1 format (Central Asia + the US) in Samarkand today, the Administrator unveiled new projects that USAID intended to implement in the region.

The Yashnabad district criminal court of Tashkent on July 11 sentenced the Nexia driver, who in January 2023 hit a pregnant woman who later died in hospital.

The State Statistics Agency unveiled Top 10 countries in Uzbekistan's international trade. China on US$ 9.5 dollars was Uzbekistan's top trade partner in January-September 2023

The first Ministerial meeting on regional cooperation in the C5+1”format (Central Asia + the U.S.) is taking place today in Samarkand. The meeting is attended by delegations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as the United States, led by the USAID Administrator Samantha Power.

Yesterday, Administrator Samantha Power visited a school in Tashkent and announced a new initiative to help improve the quality of instruction, materials, and support that every child needs to succeed in school, with an initial-year investment of $4.5 million.