The MPs of the Legislative Chamber at its meeting today passed the Urban Renovation Bill in the first reading, the press service of Chamber said.

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the special event dedicated to the preparation and holding of the Seventh Central Asia Summit in Tashkent.

Massive heat wave will hit the northern regions in the middle of the week, and from Friday, most of the country. As previously reported, in the last days of July and early August, daytime temperatures were well below 40 degrees. Nighttime temperatures dropped to +11 degrees in the mountains, and to +5 degrees in very high mountain areas.

Seven inspectors of the Bukhara province environmental protection department were awarded the Nature’s Protector breastplate for their courage and dedication in protecting nature, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.

Sea Breeze Uzbekistan has been registered as a legal entity in Uzbekistan following the government's Measures to create the Sea Breeze resort on the coast of the Charvak reservoir in the Bostanlyk district of the Tashkent province Resolution.

Today in Tel Aviv, the Uzbekistan-based company Expert One and the Israeli international gemological organization GCI Gemological Centers signed an agreement to set up a joint venture, Dunyo News Agency said.

Video footages of a group of women busy refurbishing a school are circulating on social media. They were cleaning and whitewashing the walls and ceilings of school rooms and halls.

The Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade, Laziz Kudratov host the CEO of Qatari investment company Protocol Capital Group Ahmad Abdulla Al Jufairi Thursday. The parties explored the opportunities to expand partnership in key sectors of the Uzbek economy.

The government has brought forward strict conditions to the investor of the Sea Breeze Uzbekistan project on Charvak, the adviser to the Minister of Environmental Protection Rasul Kusherbayev stated.

Uzbekistan tops the list of 33 countries by the number of citizens captured in Ukraine during the military conflict after the Russia’s invasion. All of them ended up there as mercenaries under contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian project "I Want to Live", created to help Russian soldiers voluntarily surrender.

A delegation from the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade landed in the United States to promote Uzbek goods, to expand export opportunities and to develop bilateral trade and economic ties, the Ministry said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and will visit Turkmenistan on 4–5 August to attend the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries. He will also attend an event dedicated to preparations for the upcoming Centra Asia Summit.

The government plans to build a new road between Tashkent and Charvak, the Transport Minister Ilkhom Makhkamov told the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev reviewed a presentation of transport projects onFriday. According to the presidential press service, new international airport will be erected in Tashkent province. Currently, proposals from foreign companies are being considered within the framework of a private partnership mechanism.

Traffic accident involving 10 vehicles occurred on Choshtepa street in the Tashkent’s Yangihayot district on the afternoon of August 1, the Road Safety Department said.

The Senate passed the bill Friday on mandatory HIV-testing for citizens of Uzbekistan after an over than 90-day stay abroad and for foreign nationals and stateless persons who hold residence permit and those arrivinh on work permit.

Dry grass caught fire in a hilly area of Burchmulla forestry in Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province Thursday. The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the signal about the forest fire was received at about 13:00.

The Deputy Director of the Center for Islamic Civilization Kamola Akilova had an online meeting with the Advisor to the Director of the Egyptian National House of Books and Archives/Head of Egyptian Library at Bab-ul-Khalq Dr. Huwayda Kamil.

Today, a young man drowned on the beach in Tashkent’s New Uzbekistan Park, the UzNews news publication said. The 23-year-old guy was relaxing with an acquaintance in the Dream Coast recreation area in the New Uzbekistan Park in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district. At about 16:25, one of the beachgoers noticed that he was motionless in the water, with his head down in the water. The man swam up to him and pulled him out onto the shore.

The working group for the development of the Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan multimodal transport corridor convened for an online meeting Thursday.