Authorities at Namangan Airport thwarted an attempt to smuggle gold bars and jewelry worth roughly 1.1 billion soums to India, the State Security Service (DXX) reported.

The Embassy of the State of Israel in Uzbekistan and Samarkand State University signed an agreement providing a research grant to the University’s Department of History to support academic research on the history and heritage of the Jewish community of Samarkand.

School textbooks are set to be fully transitioned to the updated Uzbek Latin alphabet between 2027 and 2031. That's according to Deputy Minister of Preschool and School Education Azizbek Turdiev, who addressed the Senate today while answering questions from senators.

Archaeological excavations are underway at the Ozod monument in Shorchi district, Surkhandarya province, the Cultural Heritage Agency has announced.

The research is being carried out jointly by the Y. Gulomov Samarkand Institute of Archaeology and the Silk Road Archaeology Research Center at China's Northwest University. Excavation work began on August 15.

All mass media outlets will be required to operate using a single alphabet once the bill on the updated Latin alphabet takes effect. That's according to Nodir Jonuzoq, head of the government's State Language Development Department, who made the announcement at a Senate session today.

Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans' Affairs and Social Policy Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski has described the labor mobility and migration agreement signed with Uzbekistan as a "historic."

At its September 10 plenary session, the Senate approved a bill on amendments to further step up guarding and protection of the state border.

The Senate has approved a bill amending the Latin-Based Uzbek Alphabet Implementation Law, greenlighting a long-discussed overhaul of the national script.

A judge and a bank official caught taking bribes in Sirdaryo province have been sentenced. 39-year-old E.S. who served as a judge in the economic affairs division of the Sirdaryo Provincial Court, while 40-year-old D.T. worked as deputy branch manager at Agrobank's Guliston branch. The two defendants had known each other beforehand.

Serbia plans to open an embassy, a move that could significantly simplify visa procedures for its citizens, the Migration Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers said.

Ground-floor apartments in multi-story residential buildings may soon host retail businesses and service centers without undergoing the lengthy legal process of being rezoned as non-residential property.

Foreign ministers from the five Central Asian states issued a joint statement marking the 20th anniversary of the treaty establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region.

Tashkent and Belgrade have begun drafting a free trade agreement that would establish zero tariff rates on goods on a reciprocal basis, Investment, Industry and Trade Minister Laziz Kudratov said, responding to a question from journalist Jakhongir Olimov following a meeting of the intergovernmental commission.

The country plans to shift to setting import duty rates by law once it joins the World Trade Organization. Duty rates are currently approved by presidential decree.

Officials are discussing the launch of direct flights between Uzbekistan and Indonesia, the Tourism Committee has announced.

A special temporary state participation right will be implemented for privatization of strategically important enterprises. The goal is to protect national security, social stability and public interests, according to a presidential decree signed on August 28 aimed at accelerating privatization, the decree states.

A presidential decree on improving the operations of state customs service bodies and deploying modern approaches to customs administration has been signed.

MPs in the Legislative Chamber have approved the Judges' Status Bill in its first reading. The bill is designed to establish judges' legal status through a dedicated law, further strengthen the independence of the judiciary, and enhance judges' legal and social protections.

A Tashkent province court has sentenced four men to prison for beating a Kazakh national and robbing him of 300 million soums near a border checkpoint. 

Traffic police in the Yashnabad district intercepted a Chevrolet Damas microvan on Ohangaron Street on September 4, discovering 25 kindergarten children crammed inside the vehicle, according to the Tashkent City Police Department's Traffic Safety Bureau.