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.

Fifteen young footballers from the Kazakhstan's Karaganda city have been hospitalized in Tashkent with a diagnosis of food poisoning while attending an international tournament, according to a post on Instagram.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today ordered the launch within 10 days of a system that lets Uzbeks working abroad request help from ambassadors through the Online Mahalla platform.

Telegram is the leading source of news in Uzbekistan, with 45.7% of adults saying they get news from its channels, according to a national media consumption study presented in Tashkent today, Nov. 2.

Marat Hamdamov, owner of the Imarat Development development company, has been named a suspect and detained under Article 227 of the Criminal Procedure Code in a criminal case handled by the Tashkent Police Department.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Nov. 2 criticized embassies, governors’ offices and educational institutions for not doing enough to place individuals in well-paid jobs abroad, his press secretary, Sherzod Asadov, said.

The Tashkent city administration has set out changes planned under its 15-Minute Comfortable Environment project, which aims to place kindergartens, schools, family clinics, service facilities and recreation areas within a 15-minute walk of residents.

Uzbekistan plans to hand over the function of sending citizens to work abroad entirely to the most reliable private employment agencies from 2027, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at a government meeting today.

State-owned Uzbekneftegaz has declined to disclose the contract price with China’s CCDC to contain a gas blowout at the 25 Years of Independence field (M-25) in Baysun district, Surkhandarya province, citing a confidentiality agreement.