Marriage between close relatives on the lateral line could be banned in Uzbekistan in proposed amendment to the Family Code prepared by the State Committee for Women and Family Affairs.

Fire broke out in the synthesis shop of Plant No. 5 of Maxam Chirchiq enterprise On Tuesday, at about 8:30 am in Chirchik, Tashkent province, which led to an explosion. This was reported by the press service of the provincial governor office. Footage of the incident surfaced on social networks.

Man in Andijan stabbed to death his 22-year-old wife, her mother and younger brother. According to the press service of the Andijan province prosecutor's office, the tragic incident occurred on September 12 in Turtkul mahalla of Izbaskan district.

Ahead of the official visit of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Hungary, Minister of Agriculture Aziz Voitov held talks with Hungarian Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sándor Farkas and Rector of the University of Agriculture and Natural Sciences Csaba Gyuricza.

Oslo will host the final round of negotiations on the draft readmission agreement between Uzbekistan and Norway in October, Dunyo reported.

Information surfaced on social networks about the mandatory mobilization of foreign citizens for military service in the Russian Federation, including labor migrants from the countries of Central Asia.

Valery Fadeev, adviser to the Russian President/Chairman of Human Rights Council (HRC), will pay a working visit to Uzbekistan on October 3-6.

Samarkand will host the Summit of the Organization of Turkic States on November 11, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. This will be the first summit of the Organization of Turkic States, formed instead of the Turkic Council in November 2021.

Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia are discussing signing a draft air service agreement. Meeting was held with the members of the delegation led by the Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Affairs Tawfiq bin Fawzan al-Rabiyah at the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent condolences message to the U.S. President Joe Biden in connection with the numerous casualties and serious destruction after the disastrous Hurricane Ian in the southeastern states.

In Uzbekistan, an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed with the corpse thrown into river. criminal case has been launched, with now the suspects detained in a procedural manner.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay an official visit to Hungary on October 3-4, the presidential press service said. The trip is a return visit in line with the agreements reached at the talks between Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Tashkent in March last year.

On September 28, a regular meeting of the interdepartmental commission for cooperation with the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held under the chairmanship of the Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khodjaev.

On September 29, Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the E-commerce Bill into Law. According to the Law, in e-commerce, a contract is formalized by agreeing on the contract terms by approving electronic documents and (or) messages between the parties in the form of an electronic document.

As part of his visit to the state of Texas, Uzbek Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov held talks with the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller on Thursday.

By a Presidential decree, Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov was appointed Deputy PM in charge of Development of Oil, Energy and Chemical Industries/Minister of Energy, announced by the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan made a statement “due to the recent increase in requests from citizens with a request to clarify certain issues regarding the situation around Ukraine.”

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Minister for Hajj and Umrah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tawfiq bin Fawzan ar-Rabiah, the presidential press service said.

Infant mortality in Uzbekistan topped 7214 children last year, which is 160 more than in 2020 (7,054). This was discussed at a meeting of the Senate Council, dedicated to the protection of reproductive health, motherhood and childhood on Wednesday. The meeting was chaired by the spokeswoman of the Senate Tanzila Narbaeva.

On the morning of September 29, an aircraft of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan flew from Termez to Karachi with humanitarian aid to victims of severe floods in Pakistan, Dunyo news agency reported.