Uzbekistan is considering changes to how cases of sexual harassment involving minors are handled. MPs from the Adolat and Milliy Tiklanish party groups in the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis discussed the relevant bill Monday.

Borijar Street in Rakatboshi neighborhood of Tashkent's Yakkasaray district has been renamed Beijing Street, according to the Sept. 25 decision by the Tashkent City Council of People's Deputies.

Uzbekistan will host the 16th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in 2031, said Saida Mirziyoyeva, head of the Presidential Administration, who is attending the 15th congress now under way in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The decision is also written into the Abu Dhabi Declaration adopted by participants.

A dedicated mobile app for buying suburban train tickets has been developed in Uzbekistan, the press service of Uztemiryolyolovchi, the government body responsible for passenger rail services said.

One person has been killed in a road accident involving a traffic police inspector in Zomin District, Jizzakh Province.

Uzbekistan will launch a Pension mobile app, Pension Fund director Murodbek Otajonov said at a news conference on Sept. 25.

Rain is forecast for several provinces of Uzbekistan this working week, with snow possible in the high mountains, the state weather service Uzhydromet said.

A motorcyclist has died in Tashkent after colliding with a truck and a passenger car, the Road Traffic Safety Department of the Tashkent city Police department said.

A suspect has been detained in Fergana on suspicion of illegally trading large volumes of cryptocurrency and misappropriating donations raised for seriously ill people, the Interior Ministry's Department for Combating Cybercrime said.

Tashkent will raise the maximum public transport fare for passengers paying electronically, by bank card, transit card or mobile app, from 1,700 to 2,500 soums starting Oct. 1. The cash fare will remain at 3,000 soums, and carrying luggage will cost 4,000 soums.

Uzbekistan has risen to third place among countries sending students to study in South Korea. According to data from South Korea's Ministry of Education and the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI), 20,876 Uzbek students were enrolled in the country as of April 1, 2026, accounting for 6.8 percent of all foreign students there.

In accordance with a March 24, 2026 decree issued by the President Mirziyoyev, an open tender has been announced to place a number of the country's professional football clubs under trust management.

Sixty-two students from School No. 51 in the Guzor district of Kashkadarya province were hospitalized on September 23 showing signs of poisoning after a chemical was sprayed on a nearby agricultural field.

Davud Ansari (Kozimjon Gafurov), an Uzbekistan-born U.S. citizen, was extradited to the United States from Tbilisi, Georgia, on September 23, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. He faces charges of providing material support to terrorist organizations and criminal conspiracy.

Fourteen modern trains, comprising 56 new cars, have entered service on the Tashkent Metro. As a result, the system's rolling stock has been renewed by nearly 70 percent, cutting passenger wait times during peak hours.

Lieutenant Colonel Ilkhom Idirov has been appointed the new chief of Tashkent's Traffic Safety Department (TSD) under the Tashkent Police Department, sources within the department said. Idirov previously chiefed the Administrative Practice Division at the Interior Ministry's Road Safety Department and had led road safety departments in Kashkadarya and Syrdarya provinces.

Transport Minister Ilkhom Makhkamov met with his Chinese counterpart, Liu Wei, during a working visit to China, the Transport Ministry reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted Long Yuxiang, chairman of the China International Cultural Communication Center, and Chan Hung-to, founder of Hong Kong-based JDB Group, the presidential press service reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead a historic business delegation of more than 100 American companies to Samarkand, Uzbekistan in mid-October to advance the U.S.–Central Asia strategic partnership and strengthen bilateral diplomatic and commercial cooperation, the Special Envoy to South and Central Asia Sergio Gor announced.

The Military Court handed down its verdict against staff members of Taftish.uz and State Security Service officers Thursday, sentencing them to prison terms ranging from 4 years and 1 month to 10 years and 6 months.