Uzbek Ambassador Alisher Tukhtayev held an online meeting with President of the  Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Muhammad Ayub Mariani of Quetta city in Balochistan region of Pakistan.

The press service of Uzgidromet posted the Tashkent city weather forecast in the last business week of the year. The weather will be dry in Tashkent, with light, sometimes variable cloudiness without precipitation. At night, the temperature will gradually increase from -3…-5 degrees Celsius to 0…+1, during the day the prevailing temperature will be +6…+9 degrees.

The workshop: JICA Environmental and Social Considerations in the Horticulture Value Chain Promotion Project (HVCPP), and Gender Mainstreaming in HVCPP" took place on December 20-21.

The city of Samarand will host the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) from November 24 to December 5, 2025.

Space monitoring conducted by the Environmental agency year-to-date found that there were 1,928 illegal landfills on an area of ​​about 721 hectares in Uzbekistan. Of these, 123 with a total area of ​​255.5 hectares are registered as located outside waste storage sites, and 1,805 with a total area of ​​465.2 hectares are registered as illegal waste landfills.

The Senate at its session discussed and passed the Amendments to the Article 135 of the Criminal Code stipulating harsher punishment for human trafficking.

Gulrukhkhon Erkinova, who had been on wanted list since 2020 on charges of theft, was deported to Tashkent, the Consulate General of Uzbekistan in Istanbul said.

Corpse of an Uzbek woman was found inside a travel suitcase in St. Petersburg, Russia, the 78.ru said. Reportedly, on December 21, a bag with a woman's corpse inside was found in the basement of a residential building on Olga Berggolts street. The person who committed the crime reported the murder to the police.

The US authorities deported 572 Uzbeks in the 2024 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a report.

Uzbek Ambassador Ayubhon Yunusov met the Head of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Kuwait, Sheikh Humoud Mubarak Humoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent condolences message to the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier over the victims and injured in the Magdeburg tragedy, Mirziyoyev’s spokesman Asadov said.

On December 27, official work will launch the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project. This was announced by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov at the III People's Kurultai on December 20.

The Department of Emergency Situations of Fergana province has posted information about the fire that occurred in Ferghana city.

Today, the EUROUZ Committee on Public Relations and Strategic Communications, chaired by Beeline Uzbekistan, in collaboration with Public Foundation for Support and Development of National Mass Media, held its second breakfast for PR and media specialists titled: "Uzbekistan in the Spotlight: Media Perceptions and Strategic Directions."

Starting from the new year, the excise tax on mobile communication services will cease to apply in Uzbekistan. This was announced at the yearly summary government meeting chaired by the president via videoconference, which also discussed the objectives for 2025 and supporting business.

Tashkent’s Yashnabad district criminal court sentenced three men to 10 days in prison for insulting a pregnant woman on the street. They were found guilty under the Petty hooliganism Article 183 of the Administrative Liability Code.

Moscow’s Basman Court announced the charges against the Uzbek national Akhmad Qurbonov, suspected of murdering the chief of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, General Igor Kirillov, the TASS reported.

The Senate at its plenary session reviewed and passed the Space Activities Bill. According to the senators, the use of space technologies in the economic sectors helped to identify about 47 thousand violations in 2023, while as of December this year, more than 100 thousand cases of near-violations were recorded.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a yearly summary government meeting via videoconference, which also discussed the main plans for 2025 and supporting business.

Two residents of Chechnya: Bislan Rasayev and Shamil Temirkhanov have been placed on the Interpol Wanted List by Uzbekistan in connection with the assassination attempt on Komil Allamjonov.