Plans are underway to establish a new international airline based in Fergana, the province administration's press service.

President Mirziyoyev has signed a decree introducing a new operating system for public safety work within the country's police bodies.

The number of people sentenced to prison in Uzbekistan rose by 2,133, or 22%, in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, the Supreme Court said.

Most of Uzbekistan can expect dry, warm weather for the rest of the work week, Uzhydromet has reported. Brief, light rain is possible on some days in Karakalpakstan and Khorezm province, and on September 10-11 in Bukhara and Navoi provinces.

Uzbekistan's Ambassador to Syria, based in Kuwait City, Ayubkhon Yunusov, has presented copies of his credentials to Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, Dunyo news agency reported.

The State Labor Inspectorate has warned that forced labor and workplace coercion are prohibited under the laws, following a wave of public complaints.

Police in Jizzakh province have detained a person suspected of running an illegal cryptocurrency exchange operation, the provincial police department said.

An audio recording attributed to Mark Glukhovsky, an adviser to FIDE presidential candidate Timur Turlov, has circulated widely on social media just ahead of the International Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, containing remarks described as insulting and discriminatory toward the leadership of Uzbekistan's National Olympic Committee (NOC) and the Uzbek people.

Tashkent's Center for Traffic Organization is conducting a study on how schoolchildren travel to school and whether there is demand for a school bus system, the agency announced.

A father and his two sons drowned on September 2 in the Charvak reservoir in Tashkent province, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement today in the morning.

Uzbekistan officially opened a consulate general in Seattle, Washington, on September 4, marking the country's first consular presence in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Friday reviewed a set of proposals aimed at reforming how medical and pharmaceutical professionals in Uzbekistan are trained, registered and kept up to date through continuous professional education.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay an official visit to Serbia on September 7-8 at the invitation of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

Uzbekistan is considering implementing new administrative penalties for civil servants and officials at government agencies and other organizations who are required to report offenses but fail to do so. A draft law has been developed that would amend the Code of Administrative Liability to this effect.

Tashkent and Samarkand have become members of the Green Cities Network run by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Certificates confirming their membership were issued on August 20 by the secretariat of the Green Cities Initiative at FAO headquarters in Rome.

Tashkent's Center for the Organization of Road Traffic (CORT) for the first time has published daily traffic figures for the capital city.

Filtration equipment worth 9.5 billion soums has been installed at the Salar wastewater treatment plant to eliminate its persistent foul odor, the Tashkent city administration's press service reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has visited Tashkent's new Center for Contemporary Art, the presidential press service reported.

Snow has fallen in the Hisor State Nature Reserve Kashkadarya province, the National Committee for Ecology and Climate Change reported today.

At the peak of construction, Uzbekistan's first integrated nuclear plant project in the Jizzakh province is expected to employ more than 10,000 workers and specialists on-site, with local personnel making up 65 to 70 percent of that workforce. The figures were disclosed by the Atomic Energy Agency, Uzatom, following the presentation made to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.