The Spanish company MAXAM, which owns 49 percent of MAXAM Chirchiq plant, is demanding compensation from the Uzbek government for breach of contract. Uzkimyosanoat and the State Assets Management Agency said that MAXAM did not perform its obligations to attract investments and is currently refusing to perform them.

Information surfaced on social networks that a man in Chirakchi district of Kashkadarya province raped a 13-year-old orphan, whom he took into his family from an orphanage, after which the girl became pregnant.

On April 14, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will attend the meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers in Samarkand.

Group of Tashkent girls launched a social project called Ayol Buyum Emas (Woman is not an Object) to counter violence against women. As part of the project, they have published photos of themselves holding banners with anti-violence slogans and red stains resembling blood.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on April 4 signed a decree on additional measures to provide the public with high-quality consumer goods, the Ministry of Justice said.

The Indonesian Police's anti-terror squad Densus 88 nabbed four Uzbekistan nationals for allegedly spreading terror propaganda on social media platforms.

Turkish airline AnadoluJet has launched Ankara to Tashkent flight. The first of once-a-week flights is scheduled for April 17, 2023 on Boeing 737-800.

Uzbekistan has virtually completed negotiations on the country's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) with three states. This was announced at a press conference on March 31 by Deputy Head of the Department for Cooperation with the WTO of the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade Amirbek Mukhamedov.

Three-year-old boy died in Urgut district of Samarkand province, falling into a ditch in front of the house, the Emergencies branch of the province reported.

Heavy rains are expected in places in Tashkent, Samarkand, Jizzakh, Syrdarya, Kashkadarya provinces, provinces of the Ferghana Valley and mountainous areas on April 5-7, with hails possible in some areas, Uzhydromet warned.

The Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov held talks with the Minister of Trade and Industry of Egypt Ahmed Saleh via conference call.

The president signed the Measures to implement the project "Clean energy for buildings of Uzbekistan" with the participation of the World Bank Decree.

Deputy Foreign Minister met with the ambassadors of the CIS member states. The Deputy Foreign Minister Bahrom Aloev hosted the Ambassador of Azerbaijan Huseyin Guliev, Ambassador of Belarus Leonid Marinich, Ambassador of Kazakhstan Beibut Atamkulov, Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan Musa Jamanbaev, Ambassador of Russia Oleg Malginov, Ambassador of Tajikistan Abdujabbar Rahmonzoda and Ambassador of Turkmenistan Yazguli Mammedov.

This year, Uzbekistan plans to produce almost 6 million tons of coal. This became known on April 3 during the government meeting on measures to modernize heating systems in social facilities, which was chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Woman and three young children crashed after falling from the 9th floor in Tashkent’s Sergeli district. According to police reports, the mother of three children first threw her two sons, 4 and 5, out of the apartment window, and then jumped out herself with her baby, 9 months.

Today, on April 3, Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the French presidential adviser Isabelle Dumont, the presidential press service said. Reportedly, the parties reviewed progress of bilateral agreements reached at the highest level and prospects for expanding the comprehensive partnership between the two countries.

Tashkent will host the STC-2023 international space technology conference and the Youth Space Forum on April 25-27, the Uzbekcosmos agency said.

Common integrator for creation and support of state information systems (Uzinfocom) has coordinated the creation of a DNS K-root in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Digital Technologies said.

Tashkent has scored a few successes since announcing a privatization drive in 2019. But it has failed to attract big-ticket international investors despite a raft of market-friendly reforms.

Aeroflot's Ferghana to Tashkent flight was delayed for technical reasons, the press service of Uzbekistan Airports said.