President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today held talks with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who arrived in Uzbekistan on a working visit.

Oybek Tursunov, the elder son-in-law of the president, is buying real estate and other assets of mobile operator Perfectum for a total of 98.37 billion soums, USD 8.2 million, including value-added tax (VAT). Shareholders of Rubicon Wireless Communication, which operates under the Perfectum brand, approved the deal at an extraordinary general meeting on Oct. 16.

Tashkent’s city administration said the heating season in the capital will begin once the average daily temperature stays below 8 degrees Celsius for five consecutive days, but no start date has been announced.

Children at three kindergartens in the city of Fergana are suspected to have been poisoned by food, and 28 of them were in hospital as of 11:00 on Oct. 26, the Food Safety Committee said.

A court has sentenced a 29-year-old woman to 13 years and four months in prison for stabbing her partner's wife and the woman’s two young daughters in the town of Shirin, killing two of them, the Millar program reported.

Uzbekistan ranks third for the share of people expressing a high level of trust in science, at 63.8%, in a ranking based on Wellcome Global Monitor 2026 data.

Uzbekistan has issued its first license to carry out Islamic banking, granting it to Open Bank, a joint-stock company, the Central Bank press service said.

Dry weather is expected across Uzbekistan on Monday and Tuesday, with strong winds and dust storms possible in the north and desert areas, national weather service Uzhydromet said.

Construction has begun on two more sections of a dedicated bus lane modeled on bus rapid transit (BRT) in Tashkent, on Amir Temur Avenue and Yangi Sergeli Street.

Preparations to build the first Uzbek school in Türkiye, in Istanbul’s Bakırköy district, are to be stepped up after talks between Uzbekistan’s Consul General in Istanbul and local officials, the Dunyo news agency reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated officers and veterans of the police on the 35th anniversary of the Interior Ministry, thanking them for service protecting public peace, human rights and interests.

A 20-year-old pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car at a zebra crossing in Tashkent on Oct. 22, the Millar news program reported.

A new 265-bed oncology center is planned in Tashkent, the Health Ministry’s press service said, after the health minister signed a consulting contract with a South Korean architecture firm.

A man in his 30s who is a citizen of Uzbekistan is suspected of beating a 50-year-old taxi driver in the South Korean city of Hwaseong, according to local law enforcement.

A new dedicated bus lane about 1 kilometer long has opened on Shahrisabz Street in Tashkent, extending the city’s bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor to nearly 8 kilometers, the Traffic Management Center said.

Iran’s ambassador to Tashkent, Muhammad Ali Iskandari, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 23, 2026. Ministry spokesman Omonulla Fayziyev said that Uzbekistan’s firm objection was conveyed to the Iranian side in a protest note handed over at the meeting.

A deputy mayor of Kasansay district in Namangan province was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe, the press service of the State Security Service said.

The Emergencies Ministry has installed warning sirens at 272 mosques in seven provinces as part of an effort to widen its early warning system, the ministry’s press service said.

Air quality in Tashkent deteriorated briefly overnight from Oct. 23 to 24 because of weather conditions, the Ecology Committee said.

A Ukrainian delegation led by Deputy Health Minister Yevhen Honchar held talks in Uzbekistan on Oct. 19-21 aimed at easing regulatory barriers to supplying Ukrainian medicines, the Ukrainian embassy in Tashkent said.