Wednesday, 04, March, 2026

National

The Tashkent city mayor’s office announced the launch of the 90-Day Shock Working, aimed at implementing "a set of large-scale steps to improve the traffic situation" in the capital.

On March 1, Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov held telephone conversations with his counterparts in the Middle East and discussed the situation in the region and conveyed President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's words of support and solidarity to their countries.

A signing ceremony held at the Ministry of Water Resources marked the official launch of the UNDP's new landmark project “Strengthening Water Resources Governance and Resilience to Climate Change in the Aral Sea Region”. UNDP and Japan partner for this transformative initiative in Uzbekistan with generous financial support from the Government of Japan with a total budget of USD 4,600,000.

Road and transport infrastructure in Surkhandarya province  will be modernized, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced at a government meeting today.

Fourth-grader Otamurod Raimboev from Khorezm province was offered a car for his performance at a meeting between the president and youth, the provincial governor office said.

We have found the way to tackle the accident at the M-25 (25 Years of Independence) gas field in Baysun district of Surkhandarya province, announced Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a government meeting today.

The United Kingdom and Central Asian Foreign Ministers convened in London for the inaugural “Central Asia-United Kingdom” Summit, reaffirming their shared commitment to strengthening regional cooperation, expanding economic ties, and advancing sustainable development across Central Asia. The discussions underscored the UK’s long-standing partnership with the region and highlighted new avenues for collaboration with Uzbekistan.

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.