Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is planning to visit Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan starting in late April, Japanese government sources said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to counter growing Chinese clout in Central Asia.

The Council of Foreign Ministers of the CIS countries is scheduled for May 13 in Dushanbe, the ministers will discuss, among other things, the situation in Ukraine, stated the director of the first department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Evdokimov.

Data storage and processing center will be built in the Tashkent province before September 1. This became known during today's meeting on the effectiveness of reforms in the field of information technology and digital economy, as well as the priorities for 2022, which was chaired by the president.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. At the beginning of the conversation, the Uzbek leader congratulated Viktor Orbán over the victory of the Fidesz - Christian Democratic People's Party coalition in the Hungarian parliamentary elections.

 It is planned to completely eliminate potholes on the main streets of Tashkent in 10 days, the city mayor, Jahongir Artykhodzhaev announced at a meeting in the mayor's office on Wednesday.

The Hydrometeorological Service Center announced the weather forecast for tomorrow, April 15. Tashkent city. The weather will be partly cloudy, with no precipitation expected. The wind is eastwards, 3-8 m/s. The temperature will be 14-16 C at night and 30-32 C in the daytime.

The UK's Foreign Secretary announces 178 new sanctions, coordinated with the EU, targeting those who prop up Russian-backed illegal breakaway regions of Ukraine.

Uzbekistan welcomes the announcement of a two-month truce and ceasefire in Yemen mediated by the UN, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

The United States of America understands and respects Uzbekistan’s position in relation to the war in Ukraine, the US Ambassador to Tashkent Daniel Rosenblum told in an interview to the Amerika Ovozi (Voice of America).

Amendments have been made to the Article 19 of the regulation on procedure for regulating the relationship of traffic police officers with road users and use of special tools. This is stated in the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated April 12 this year.

As per the amended Traffic Rules (TR), which will take effect on May 1, front-seat passengers will have to wear seat belts, the Ministry of Justice said.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed pharmaceutical officials to attract at least 10 foreign brands to the country. At a government meeting chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev on April 12, he noted that the Pharmaceutical Agency needs to completely reorganize the system of working with projects.

The government has approved amendments to traffic rules which will take effect on May 1 of this year. According to the document:

On April 11, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Akkulov departed from Tashkent for Abu Dhabi, the UAE, the Foreign Ministry said.

On February 14, 2021, a lady of Nukus, N.Yu., gave birth to a baby girl. The next day, on February 15, at 9:15 am, the doctors of the Regional Perinatal Center of Karakalpakstan declared the death of the newborn and at 10:15 am they transferred her to coroner, the Prosecutor's Office of Karakalpakstan said.

On April 11, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the presentation of transport and utilities sector projects, the presidential press service said on Monday.

Imports of beef increased by about 2,000 tons. the State Statistics Committee said in a report. Reportedly, in the first two months of 2022, Uzbekistan imported 5.9 thousand tons of beef from seven countries worth total of $26.5 million, an increase by about 2,000 tons compared to the same period last year.

Chief accountant of a college in Fergana appropriated 4.3 billion soums, which he lost on a betting site. Using his official position, the suspect in 2019-2021 unreasonably transferred to his own account over 4 billion soums, US$ 370 thousand worth of salaries and allowances.

On April 11, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the presentation of transport and utilities sector projects, the presidential press service said on Monday.

A Tashkent-bound Uzbekistan Airways Airbus A320 aircraft heading from Minsk made an emergency landing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport after an anonymous bomb threat, the company said.