Wednesday, 17, September, 2025

National

The Uzbek Ambassador Dilshod Akhatov met with the State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Nils Annen, the Dunyo state news agency said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to ensure continuous manufacturing on agricultural land and improve land use efficiency Decree Friday.

Driver on a GM Damas minivan was stopped while he was transporting 23 kindergarten children being intoxicated in Navoi province, the provincial police department said.

The President Mirziyoyev signed a decree on Monday which provides for that socially and economically significant business entities will receive the public interest entity (PIE) status. Additional requirements will be outlined in the financial reporting, audit and management of such companies.

The very goal of our higher education related reforms is to turn Uzbekistan into a provinceal hub of education and science, stated the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting with teachers and mentors in the Bostanlyk district of the Tashkent province on Monday, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

The President Mirziyoyev signed a decree on September 8 equating most of individuals personal data on the Unified Portal of Interactive Governmental Services (UPIGS) to their hard copy from November 1.

Officials of the Uzbek Consulate General of met with Abdullah bin Abdurahman Ismail, chief of the Jeddah and Mecca Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development of Saudi Arabia.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev today landed in Namangan province to get familiar with the province’s development progress, the presidential press service said.

The Chinaz District Criminal Court sentenced a 16-year-old teenager to 8.5 years in prison for killing his classmate. During the trial, the accused apologized and said that he had had no intention to do it.

Assistant to Peshku district mayor in Bukhara province was arrested in one of the neighborhoods on suspicion of extortion, the State Security Service (SSS) said today.

During his visit to the Bostanlyk district, Shavkat Mirziyoyev inspected the progress of the Chimgan all-season resort project Monday, his press service said.

The Tashkent Thermal Power Plant is no longer using residual fuel oil to produce power and heat, Thermal Power Stations company said Monday.

Practical works on Tuti-Maidan fields gas exploration and extraction project in Jowzjan and Faryab provinces with the participation of an Uzbek company have been commenced in Afghanistan, the press service of the acting Afghan Deputy PM in charge of Economic Affairs Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund said.

The Mirabad District Criminal Court issue a ruling on the case against the Minister of Agriculture Aziz Voitov, the chief of Agricultural Services Agency Khusnuddin Karimov and other persons (62 people in total), the spokesman of the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov Monday.

A huge gas reserve has been discovered on the Ustyurt plateau in Karakalpakstan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced in today’s meeting.

A unified system of school exams will be introduced in Uzbekistan from the new academic year, announced the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today at a meeting with teachers in Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

A bus and a van fell into a hole due to subsidence of the road surface in Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district. According to social media reports, an excavator that was trying to pull the bus out overturned.

The year 2026 has been declared the Year of Teaching Modern Skills to the Youth, announced the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today at a meeting with teachers in Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

The Interior Ministry Uzbekistan posted for public discussion a draft amendment to the Administrative Offences Code, which provides for harsher penalties for certain traffic violations Monday.

During the entire business week, the territory of Uzbekistan will be under the influence of a cool and humid air mass due a high-altitude cyclone over southern Kazakhstan, Uzgidromet said.