Tuesday, 16, September, 2025

National

Shavkat Mirziyoyev today landed in Namangan province to get familiar with the province’s development progress, the presidential press service said.

The Chinaz District Criminal Court sentenced a 16-year-old teenager to 8.5 years in prison for killing his classmate. During the trial, the accused apologized and said that he had had no intention to do it.

Assistant to Peshku district mayor in Bukhara province was arrested in one of the neighborhoods on suspicion of extortion, the State Security Service (SSS) said today.

During his visit to the Bostanlyk district, Shavkat Mirziyoyev inspected the progress of the Chimgan all-season resort project Monday, his press service said.

The Tashkent Thermal Power Plant is no longer using residual fuel oil to produce power and heat, Thermal Power Stations company said Monday.

Practical works on Tuti-Maidan fields gas exploration and extraction project in Jowzjan and Faryab provinces with the participation of an Uzbek company have been commenced in Afghanistan, the press service of the acting Afghan Deputy PM in charge of Economic Affairs Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund said.

The Mirabad District Criminal Court issue a ruling on the case against the Minister of Agriculture Aziz Voitov, the chief of Agricultural Services Agency Khusnuddin Karimov and other persons (62 people in total), the spokesman of the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov Monday.

A huge gas reserve has been discovered on the Ustyurt plateau in Karakalpakstan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced in today’s meeting.

A unified system of school exams will be introduced in Uzbekistan from the new academic year, announced the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today at a meeting with teachers in Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

A bus and a van fell into a hole due to subsidence of the road surface in Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district. According to social media reports, an excavator that was trying to pull the bus out overturned.

The year 2026 has been declared the Year of Teaching Modern Skills to the Youth, announced the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today at a meeting with teachers in Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

The Interior Ministry Uzbekistan posted for public discussion a draft amendment to the Administrative Offences Code, which provides for harsher penalties for certain traffic violations Monday.

During the entire business week, the territory of Uzbekistan will be under the influence of a cool and humid air mass due a high-altitude cyclone over southern Kazakhstan, Uzgidromet said.

Uzbekistan will switch from “ineffective” methods of raising the legal culture and awareness of the public, such as round tables, meetings and webinars to proactive forms, the September 8 Presidential Decree said.

The Embassy of India under the aegis of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi and in partnership with Yoga Federation of Uzbekistan with the support of Ministry of Sports of the Republic of Uzbekistan, is organizing the 7th International Conference on Yoga, “Yoga for One Earth One Health” (1st in Central Asia) from September 17-18, 2025 at Hotel Hilton City Tashkent.

Train hit a GM Gentra at a non-regulated railroad crossing between Chartak and Uychi stations in Namangan province Saturday.

The Ambassador Abdulaziz Akkulov held talks with the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of UAE University, Professor Ahmed Ali Alraeesi.

The Aviation Security Service confiscated 535 illegal items at Tashkent Airport from January 1 to August 30, 2025, Uzbekistan Airports said.

Uzbekistan and Russia are mulling the possibility of allowing entry for the nationals of the two countries with internal IDs, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Akhror Burkhanov said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Friday, the presidential press service said.