Thursday, 05, March, 2026

National

Schoolboy on a BMW M4without a driver's license struck a traffic police officer in Tashkent. The officer sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized.

Information about a child being electrocuted by a high-voltage electric shock has surfaced on social media. Children's ombudsperson Surayo Rakhmonova commented on the situation.

On February 25, the Indian Embassy hosted an Annual Press Meet of the Embassy at the Tashkent’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. 

Uzbekistan unveiled plans to increase manufacturing of domestic agricultural machinery and components fivefold before 2029, while localization levels to be raisedby 10%, the presidential press service said following the government meeting chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Garden Catering Trade, the company that supplied food to kindergartens in Fergana where a mass poisoning of children occurred, has changed its equity owner.

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Cambridge University Press & Assessment (Cambridge) are working together to reform Curriculum for Primary and Secondary. This week, they step up efforts as they roll out a series of training workshops across Uzbekistan.

A ZIL-130 truck struck a nine-year-old boy in Balykchi district of Andijan province. The boy died in the hospital, according to the provincial traffic police press service.

Gas-air explosion occurred in an apartment building in the Buston neighborhood in Kokand Wednesday followed by a fire, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. 

In Uzbekistan, the mechanization rate of cotton harvesting has reached 52%, and the degree of mechanization in agriculture has reached 81%, it was stated in the presentation made to the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday.

The Minister of Mining and Geology, Bobir Islamov hosted the CEO of Traxys Group Tuesday. In the talks were also present the Director of Navoiyuran, Jamol Fayzullaev, and Director of the Uzbekistan Technological Metals Plant, Farkhod Abdullayev, the Central Asian regional office of Traxys Group said.

Garden Catering Trade is the food supplier to kindergartens in Fergana province where children were poisoned with food. Over the weekend, at least 62 children from three public kindergartens in the city (No. 2, No. 58, and No. 61) were hospitalized with a diagnosis of "acute diarrheal disease of alimentary etiology." T​three of them are in intensive care in "stable" condition. A criminal case has been opened under the Violation of sanitary regulations charge.

The UK is hosting the Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for a landmark summit in London.

Nearly 4,000 Uzbek women married Turkish nationals, placed second after Syrian women in 2025. The total number of foreign brides in Türkiye stood at 28 thousand 646 reaching 5.2% of total brides.

Uzbekistan abstained from voting on a United Nations General Assembly draft resolution that called for an immediate, complete, and unconditional ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.

On February 6, the Bustan District Criminal Court of Andijan province sentenced a 24-year-old man who was recruited by the Russian army in its invasion of Ukraine.

Wolt will be permanently closing its service in Uzbekistan from 5th March 2026, Clients will no longer be able to place orders through the service’s app or website, the company said in a statement on its website.

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a Specially Designated Nationals List Update, which includes an Uzbek national Azizjon Mamashoev, 38, and the company Advance Security Solutions.

Uzbekistan's first toll road project between Urgench and Khiva has begun in Khorezm province, the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel said in a story.

Criminal case has been opened in Fergana following the mass poisoning of children in public kindergartens, the Fergana Province Police Department (FPPD) said.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Belarussian Prime Minister Alexander Turchin, the presidential press service said.