A court has sentenced a 38-year-old civil servant to three years and one month in prison for phoning the governor of Surkhandarya province and posing as a Presidential Administration employee to push a construction request for an Afghan entrepreneur.

An increase in the proportion of working-age individuals has the potential to significantly boost productivity, especially when paired with improvements in education, healthcare, and capital investment. However, this trend is not uniform across the globe. Central Asia is one of the few regions where fertility and birth rates consistently exceed the replacement level, a crucial factor to consider. By the end of 2026, the total fertility rate (TFR) in Central Asia is projected to reach 3.10 children per woman, well above the replacement level of 2.1. Most births are expected to occur among women aged 20-24, with a birth rate of 207 births per 1,000 women in that age group. Additionally, the average age of mothers is expected to be 27.6 years, resulting in an estimated total of around 1,843,639 babies born.

The 22nd Congress of the International Kurash Association was held in Astana, Kazakhstan. A delegation from Uzbekistan, made up of leaders of the Ministry of Sports and the National Olympic Committee (NOC), took part. In line with the agenda, delegates heard reports from the association’s leadership and reviewed the work carried out in 2025-2026.

A court has jailed a 36-year-old Russian citizen for seven days after he verbally abused flight attendants and disrupted a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tashkent.

A cold, moist air mass will bring a sharp change in the weather to Uzbekistan from Nov. 9, with rain, snow in places and falling temperatures, Uzhydromet, the weather service, said.

Tashkent will begin supplying heat in stages from Nov. 9, the city administration’s press service said, after Mayor Shavkat Umurzakov signed a decision opening the 2026-2027 heating season.

Authorities have begun restoring a lake in central Tashkent beside the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, with earthworks now under way at the site.

When World of Warcraft: Forever went live worldwide at 15:00 Pacific time on 4 November 2026, it was 04:00 on Thursday morning in Tashkent. Players in Uzbekistan had a choice: stay up for the launch, or set an alarm and log in before work or a morning lecture.

Two people suspected of kidnapping have been detained in Tashkent, the Interior Ministry said. According to the ministry, a citizen filed a complaint with its Operational Investigation Department. The complainant said unknown persons had abducted them in a car and that they escaped by putting up fierce resistance.

Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade has proposed letting zero import duties lapse on nine groups of food products, including cheese, yogurt and chocolate, in a draft presidential resolution discussed on Oct. 27.

A school principal in Samarkand has been detained after allegedly taking $400 from a citizen in exchange for a teaching job, the department under the Prosecutor General’s Office said.

Starting a business in Georgia has quietly become one of the most pragmatic decisions available to international entrepreneurs today. Over the past decade, the country has assembled a corporate ecosystem that rewards reinvestment, minimises bureaucracy, and remains genuinely welcoming to founders from anywhere in the world. What distinguishes the jurisdiction isn’t a single headline benefit — it’s the way several structural features reinforce one another to produce an unusually balanced operating environment.

Achievements of the digital age must not become tools of terrorism, and states must work together to ensure they are used solely for peace, security and sustainable development, the chairman of Uzbekistan’s State Security Service, Colonel General Bakhodir Kurbanov, said at the first meeting of the SCO Plus expert dialogue on security in Samarkand tosay, Nov. 6.

Dry and warm weather will hold across most of Uzbekistan over the weekend, with rain possible only in parts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and Khorezm province, according to the forecast.

Digital technologies, artificial intelligence and global communication tools are profoundly changing the very nature of transnational threats, opening broad opportunities for progress while creating fundamentally new vulnerabilities, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan said in his address to participants in the first SCO Plus expert dialogue on security in Samarkand today.

Foreign investors have begun collecting documents to revise a gas chemical complex project in Karakul district, Bukhara province, Levent Kafkasli, chief executive of Turkey’s Tekfen, told the president at a meeting on Nov. 3.

Tashkent’s city transport department said construction of dedicated bus lanes is causing congestion and delaying buses, after complaints of longer waits and disrupted service intervals.

A Tashkent court sentenced blogger Nilufar Hamidova, 48, to seven days of administrative detention for minor hooliganism, Tashkent city courts said in an official statement.

Police seized 333.54 tonnes of coal and 92.9 tonnes of liquefied gas from illegal circulation in October, the Interior ministry’s press service said, as Interior Minister Aziz Tashpulatov ordered tighter control over fuel supplies to homes and social facilities.

Cotton growers have switched to denser planting, mechanized harvesting and a farmer mentoring system this season in a push to produce a 5-million-tonne crop in 2026, backed by 12 trillion soums in preferential loans.