Today the Senate passed a bill that expands the Central Bank's autonomy in adopting regulations and clarifies how the regulator is audited.

The Senate today approved the bill that toughens penalties for violence against children and expands their protection during investigations and court proceedings. The bill takes effect once the president signs it.

A tree snapped and fell onto a moving car in Tashkent's Chilanzar district, with no injuries reported, city's emergency services said in a statement.

Cold air masses will move into northern Uzbekistan on October 3 and reach the rest of the country on October 4-5, according to the latest hydrometeorological bulletin.

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates will jointly develop a project for a new Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (CASA) railway route, the press service of Kazakhstan's prime minister said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has delivered an address to participants in the 7th Congress of the Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions, being held in Samarkand.

The British Council announced the thirteenth year of its Study UK Alumni Awards, recognising the outstanding achievements of international UK alumni worldwide. These awards honour leaders who have leveraged their UK education to make significant contributions to their communities, industries, and countries.

Uzbekistan has proposed setting up a one-stop-shop center for people leaving to work in Russia, the Migration Agency said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev offered his wishes on the Teachers Day marked on October 1. In his message, he called raising the young generation "the most important and noble profession in the world" and described knowledge, education, upbringing and culture as "an inexhaustible source of strength" for New Uzbekistan, its achievements and its national character.

Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have signed a bilateral military cooperation plan for 2027 during a meeting of their defense ministers. The sides discussed military cooperation, military education and the development of their armed forces.

The prosecutors general of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have signed an agreement on cooperation in combating terrorism and extremism, RBC reported. The document was signed at a meeting in Moscow by Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan, Belarusian Prosecutor General Dmitry Gora, Kazakh Prosecutor General Berik Asylov, Kyrgyz Prosecutor General Malik Bekturganov, Tajik Prosecutor General Habibullo Sayidullo Vohidzoda and Uzbek Prosecutor General Nigmatilla Yuldashev.

Of the 10 billion euros pledged in 2024 to develop the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor (TCTC), 2.5 billion has already been invested in infrastructure or confirmed under specific projects in Central Asia, a senior European Commission official said.

The number of teachers working at general secondary schools in Uzbekistan reached 577,700 at the start of the 2025/26 school year, excluding those holding concurrent positions, according to the National Statistics Committee.

Of the 661,000 Uzbek citizens who returned from labor migration, 557,000 have been engaged in income-generating activity, Minister of Employment and Poverty Reduction Botir Zakhidov told a plenary session of the Legislative Chamber on September 29.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the presidential press service said. At the beginning of the meeting, the FIFA chief commended Uzbekistan’s recent football achievements.

MPs have passed in second reading the bill aimed overhauling the system for protecting children from all forms of violence. The bill, which aims to toughen penalties for crimes against children and better protect the rights of victims, would amend the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code, the Administrative Liability Code and a number of other laws.

Land prices in Tashkent remained below last year's level in June, according to the Central Bank's real estate market review. The average asking price for a sotka (100 square meters) was about 292 million soums, 9% lower than in June 2025, when it stood at 334 million soums. For comparison, the average in June 2024 was 342 million soums, and in April of that year it reached 364 million soums.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited New Uzbekistan University on the eve of Teachers and Mentors' Day and toured an exhibition on education reforms and future plans.

A total of 61,548 Uzbeks who use the Solar Household program will receive 105.4 billion soums in subsidies for August, for electricity they generated with solar panels and fed into the national grid, according to the State Tax Committee.

Writer Hamid Ismailov has been named among the potential contenders for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The list also includes internationally renowned authors such as Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, David Grossman, J.K. Rowling and Stephen King.