Worker for Toza Hudud (Clean Territory), government body responsible for sanitation and solid waste management, in Kiziltepa district, Navoi province, has been jailed for five days for harassing a minor girl.

Uzbekistan Airports on September 29 showed journalists the site of the future passenger terminal at Urgench International Airport, which is being built by South Korea's Incheon International Airport Corporation. 

IQAir, an international air quality monitoring company, has released its global data on pollution from fine particulate matter PM2.5 (particles up to 2.5 microns in diameter) for 2025. The study covered 143 countries. Uzbekistan ranked among the 10 most polluted. Its concentration of fine dust stood at 38.1 micrograms per cubic meter, eight times the level recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Dry, cool weather is expected across Uzbekistan on the daytime of October 5, with rain only at times in provinces of the Fergana Valley. Temperatures will typically range from 15 to 20 degrees Celsius, the Uzhydromet said.

Customs officers at the Ayritom border customs post in Surkhandarya province foiled an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of drugs from Afghanistan late on the evening of October 1, the press service of the Customs Committee said.

A major fire broke out on the night of October 3, 2026, at the Karvon trade complex in the city of Bukhara. The market burned for at least 2.5 hours before the fire was extinguished.

The Senate has approved a bill ratifying the Treaty on Permanent Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between five Central Asian states and China. The document sets out the legal basis for long-term cooperation in trade, investment, transport, energy and digital technologies.

Environmental review conclusions can now be obtained online in Uzbekistan through my.gov.uz. According to the Unified Portal, those starting a new business or building a facility can obtain the environmental conclusion confirming that the project will not harm the environment without going from office to office or leaving home.

A new double-circuit 500-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line is being built from Samarkand to Tashkent, the Energy Ministry said.

President Mirziyoyev has appointed Obid Khakimov as deputy chief of the Presidential Administration in charge of education reform, with a concurrent post as rector of New Uzbekistan University. He was relieved of his post as presidential adviser on economic policy.

Uzbekistan's embassy, with support from the National PR Center under the Tourism Committee, held an online meeting with officials of the Airbnb platform.

President Mirziyoyev has merged the Ministry of Preschool and School Education and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation into a single Ministry of Education and Science by decree, the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov announced the move.

A neighbourhood council chief in Kushrabot district, Samarkand province has been penalized for sexual harassment. The ruling says U.Ch., 42, head of the Katta Okmachit neighborhood in Kushrabot District, sexually harassed a woman living in the area. He messaged her on Telegram, proposed sex, and sent her obscene videos.

Uzbekistan imported 18,900 tonnes of mutton worth $43.8 million in January-July 2026, up 37.7% from the same period last year, with Kazakhstan the largest supplier.

Uzbekistan has stepped up preparedness among the relevant services to prevent highly dangerous infectious diseases from entering and spreading in the country, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Committee said.

Tokyo police have arrested a 45-year-old Uzbek national who works as a food delivery courier on suspicion of committing indecent acts against a schoolgirl.

The Justice Ministry has registered interim regulations governing the use of the Urgench-Khiva toll road. Under the rules, the operator must publish tariffs, payment methods and details of a free alternative route before tolling begins.

India's Hyderabad police on Thursday rescued six Uzbek women from an alleged brothel and arrested two persons for allegedly running the illegal operation from a hotel.

Construction is nearing completion on the 127.6-km Darbaza-Maktaaral railway line in Kazakhstan, and operations are expected to begin before the end of 2026, Kazakhstan's Transport Ministry said.

A 4-year-old girl has died after being beaten by her foster mother in the Kasbi District of Kashkadarya Province, the office of Children's Ombudsman confirmed.