Prosecutors are conducting a preliminary inquiry into the death of a young woman born in 2005 who died in Kashkadarya province after surgery to remove a pituitary tumor, the provincial health department said.

An atmospheric inversion in Tashkent could last another 10 days, worsening air pollution, Uzhydromet warned. “Dust and pollutants are continuously being released into the air,” the agency said in a statement. “If there is no wind, it is harder for them to disperse.” It said rain also washes dust particles out of the air, and that in the absence of both wind and rain pollutants keep accumulating. An inversion makes it even harder for them to rise and disperse, it said.

Nearly 80,000 people in Uzbekistan are receiving unemployment benefits, Sobir Khayitmurodov, chief of a department at the Employment Ministry told journalists in Tashkent Wednesday.

Rail lines linking airports with railway stations are planned in Tashkent, Urgench and Bukhara, according to a draft strategy for comprehensive development of domestic passenger transport through 2030.

A new recreation area with an artificial lake will be created on Keles Yuli Street in Tashkent’s Almazar district, near Victory Park, the district administration said.

Electricity demand in Central Asia will rise by 27% by 2030, according to Arman Akhunbayev, head of the Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Centre for Sector Analysis.

Foreign enterprise Uklon UB has been designated in Uzbekistan as a digital platform operator with a dominant position in the market for taxi aggregator services, the press service of the Committee for Competition Development and Consumer Protection said.

Uzbekistan is proposing to move to fully cashless fare payment on suburban passenger trains and on suburban and intercity bus routes from Jan. 1, 2030, according to a draft resolution.

Uzbek citizens have increasingly been refused entry at foreign airports and borders in recent years, and several countries have tightened or scrapped visa-free access for them, local media reports and official statements show.

Uzbekistan is proposing to implement a unified national digital transport platform, Bir Yol, from Jan. 1, 2028, bringing together rail, air, bus and urban public transport services, according to a draft resolution developed by the Ministry of Transport.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will make a working visit to Türkiye on Oct. 29-30 at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the presidential press service said.

MPs in the Legislative Chamber approved in first reading on Oct. 27 a bill on supporting business owners that would cap tax penalties at the amount of the underlying tax debt.

A number of legislative changes and other new rules take effect in Uzbekistan on Nov. 1. Firstly a new gas supply scheme will be deployed.

It is big time for universities to elect their rectors, Termez State University rector Abdukodir Toshkulov told journalists on Wednesday at the Central Asia Education Forum in Tashkent.

Ozod Hamidkhodjayev, a prominent reported and host of the Tahlilnoma (Analysis) program and former chief of the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel, has died.

A court has sentenced a 41-year-old man to 300 hours of compulsory community service for throwing a 4-year-old girl into a spring in Baliqchi district, Andijan province.

Families of children harmed by the medicines Doc-1 Max and Ambronol will receive full compensation, the Health Ministry said.

Air quality today in Tashkent on Oct. 28 is expected to reach the Unhealthy level on the international Air Quality Index (AQI), the National Committee for Ecology and Climate Change of Uzbekistan said, citing data from the Republican Special Commission for the Implementation of Urgent Measures to Improve the Environmental Situation.

Azerbaijani company AzerGold will carry out comprehensive geological exploration at the Akba gold deposit in Kashkadarya province, the company’s press service said.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Iran’s relations with Uzbekistan that they have deep historical roots, responding to a protest note from Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry and to posts by diplomatic missions about Samarkand and Registan.