Digital Technologies Minister Sherzod Shermatov did not confirm a reported leak of personal data on 27 million citizens but warned that breaches could occur if urgent measures are not taken.

A court in Olmazor district has sentenced eight groomsmen to administrative detention for dancing on a roadway and obstructing traffic.

The government plans to build a toll motorway and a high-speed railway between Samarkand and Bukhara, cutting the road journey from five hours to 1.5 hours, according to plans disclosed on Nov. 4 at a meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Samarkand will host the inaugural expert-level SCO Plus Security Dialogue on Nov. 5-6. The dialogue’s theme is “Security in the era of digital transformation: Countering terrorism and extremism amid the development of new technologies.” The event will be chaired by the chief of the State Security Service Bahodir Qurbonov.

A car struck and killed a pedestrian on Tashkent Ring Road in the city’s Yashnabad district on Sunday evening, the road safety service of the Tashkent Police Department said.

The Ministry of Sports has presented a draft presidential decree aimed at popularizing football from the mahalla (neighborhood) level and expanding the system for training professional players.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the Bukhara oil refinery in Qorovulbozor district on Tuesday and reviewed a $328 million project to modernize the plant, aimed at boosting high-octane gasoline output and raising processing capacity.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s State Visit to Uzbekistan on August 29-30, 2026 has injected fresh momentum to an expanding relationship rooted in centuries of historical and cultural connections. This was the fourth visit of Prime Minister Modi to Uzbekistan with the previous being in 2015 (bilateral), 2016 and 2022 (SCO Summits).

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took part in a ceremony to launch new facilities and start construction of promising projects during his visit to Bukhara province, the presidential press service reported.

An environmental event was held at Secondary School No. 3 in the city of Jizzakh to mark the results of the national “Grow Your Garden” competition, which was held in Uzbekistan’s schools for the first time as part of the “Health Routes” education program. The competition was organized by Nestlé in partnership with the National Committee for Ecology and Climate Change and the Republican Education Center. It brought together more than 400 participants from across the country’s provinces. The centerpiece of the closing event was a tree-planting on the school grounds with students, teachers, parents and partners.

Uzbekneftegaz has not received any assets or stakes in the private company Sanoat Energetika Guruhi (Saneg) since part of Saneg’s licenses to use oil and gas fields were revoked, company officials said at a press conference on Oct. 27.

As reported earlier, young footballers from Kazakhstan’s Karaganda province and adult members of their delegation have been hospitalized in Tashkent with symptoms of food poisoning, officials said. They had come to Uzbekistan for the Do’stlik Cup 2026, an international football festival.

A shocking video circulating on social media showing a customer cutting his own arms inside the "Imarat Development" sales office has exposed a massive real estate fraud scheme, leading to the arrest of the company's owner, Marat Khamdamov.

The court schedule for the criminal trial of Bakhodirjon Sidikov, former chairman of the Uzbekneftegaz's BOD, lists 25 defendants, up from the nine reported by the Supreme Court’s press service in July.

The National Committee for Urbanization and Sustainable Development of the Housing Market has called for escrow accounts to be implemented for home purchases, after missed handover deadlines, unrefunded buyers and criminal cases against the management of several construction companies.

A liter of drinking water supplied to residents of Tashkent costs 1.4 soums, officials of Uzsuvtaminot JSC said at a press conference in the capital on Oct. 30.

An investigator with the Fergana city division of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the Prosecutor General’s Office has been detained on suspicion of taking a $100,000 bribe, the State Security Service said.

The government has imposed a three-month ban on exports of certain petrochemical products from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), it said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Nov. 2 set a target of raising annual remittances from abroad to $50 billion, telling a meeting on labor migration that current opportunities are not being used effectively and state policy must be fundamentally overhauled.

Uzbekneftegaz is in talks with Chinese companies on supplies of gasoline rated 92 octane and higher and diesel fuel, as well as larger imports of crude oil and gas condensate for processing at the Bukhara oil refinery. Farid Muminov, deputy chairman of the company’s management board, said so at a news conference on Oct. 27.