Afghan nationals made up about 90.5% of the foreigners who visited Uzbekistan for business purposes in the first nine months of 2026, the National Statistics Committee said.

Husan Asadov, chief of the Tashkent District Medical Association, has appointed his wife, Gulnora Asadova, as head of the Interdistrict Perinatal Center, according to an order he issued.

Businesspeople from the Uzbek Surkhandarya and Afghan Balkh provinces held talks in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif and signed a number of agreements. The sides also agreed to arrange a visit by Afghan doctors to a medical center in Termez.

Warm, dry weather is expected in Tashkent over the coming week, with an atmospheric inversion forecast to last until Nov. 1 and potentially worsen air quality, the weather agency Uzhydromet said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is meeting filmmakers at the Uzbekfilm studio. He announced a move to a new system in which the tasks of managing the film sector, financing it and making films are clearly separated.

Citizens of Uzbekistan were the largest group to enter Russia for work in the first half of the year, with 1,178,609 people stating work as the purpose of their visit, TASS reported, citing materials it had seen.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is meeting filmmakers at the Uzbekfilm studio, the president’s press service said, citing a sharp rise in state funding for the industry over the past decade.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today held talks with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who arrived in Uzbekistan on a working visit.

Oybek Tursunov, the elder son-in-law of the president, is buying real estate and other assets of mobile operator Perfectum for a total of 98.37 billion soums, USD 8.2 million, including value-added tax (VAT). Shareholders of Rubicon Wireless Communication, which operates under the Perfectum brand, approved the deal at an extraordinary general meeting on Oct. 16.

Tashkent’s city administration said the heating season in the capital will begin once the average daily temperature stays below 8 degrees Celsius for five consecutive days, but no start date has been announced.

Children at three kindergartens in the city of Fergana are suspected to have been poisoned by food, and 28 of them were in hospital as of 11:00 on Oct. 26, the Food Safety Committee said.

A court has sentenced a 29-year-old woman to 13 years and four months in prison for stabbing her partner's wife and the woman’s two young daughters in the town of Shirin, killing two of them, the Millar program reported.

Uzbekistan ranks third for the share of people expressing a high level of trust in science, at 63.8%, in a ranking based on Wellcome Global Monitor 2026 data.

Uzbekistan has issued its first license to carry out Islamic banking, granting it to Open Bank, a joint-stock company, the Central Bank press service said.

Dry weather is expected across Uzbekistan on Monday and Tuesday, with strong winds and dust storms possible in the north and desert areas, national weather service Uzhydromet said.

Construction has begun on two more sections of a dedicated bus lane modeled on bus rapid transit (BRT) in Tashkent, on Amir Temur Avenue and Yangi Sergeli Street.

Preparations to build the first Uzbek school in Türkiye, in Istanbul’s Bakırköy district, are to be stepped up after talks between Uzbekistan’s Consul General in Istanbul and local officials, the Dunyo news agency reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated officers and veterans of the police on the 35th anniversary of the Interior Ministry, thanking them for service protecting public peace, human rights and interests.

A 20-year-old pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car at a zebra crossing in Tashkent on Oct. 22, the Millar news program reported.

A new 265-bed oncology center is planned in Tashkent, the Health Ministry’s press service said, after the health minister signed a consulting contract with a South Korean architecture firm.