A motorcyclist has died in Tashkent after colliding with a truck and a passenger car, the Road Traffic Safety Department of the Tashkent city Police department said.

A suspect has been detained in Fergana on suspicion of illegally trading large volumes of cryptocurrency and misappropriating donations raised for seriously ill people, the Interior Ministry's Department for Combating Cybercrime said.

Tashkent will raise the maximum public transport fare for passengers paying electronically, by bank card, transit card or mobile app, from 1,700 to 2,500 soums starting Oct. 1. The cash fare will remain at 3,000 soums, and carrying luggage will cost 4,000 soums.

Uzbekistan has risen to third place among countries sending students to study in South Korea. According to data from South Korea's Ministry of Education and the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI), 20,876 Uzbek students were enrolled in the country as of April 1, 2026, accounting for 6.8 percent of all foreign students there.

In accordance with a March 24, 2026 decree issued by the President Mirziyoyev, an open tender has been announced to place a number of the country's professional football clubs under trust management.

Sixty-two students from School No. 51 in the Guzor district of Kashkadarya province were hospitalized on September 23 showing signs of poisoning after a chemical was sprayed on a nearby agricultural field.

Davud Ansari (Kozimjon Gafurov), an Uzbekistan-born U.S. citizen, was extradited to the United States from Tbilisi, Georgia, on September 23, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. He faces charges of providing material support to terrorist organizations and criminal conspiracy.

Fourteen modern trains, comprising 56 new cars, have entered service on the Tashkent Metro. As a result, the system's rolling stock has been renewed by nearly 70 percent, cutting passenger wait times during peak hours.

Lieutenant Colonel Ilkhom Idirov has been appointed the new chief of Tashkent's Traffic Safety Department (TSD) under the Tashkent Police Department, sources within the department said. Idirov previously chiefed the Administrative Practice Division at the Interior Ministry's Road Safety Department and had led road safety departments in Kashkadarya and Syrdarya provinces.

Transport Minister Ilkhom Makhkamov met with his Chinese counterpart, Liu Wei, during a working visit to China, the Transport Ministry reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted Long Yuxiang, chairman of the China International Cultural Communication Center, and Chan Hung-to, founder of Hong Kong-based JDB Group, the presidential press service reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead a historic business delegation of more than 100 American companies to Samarkand, Uzbekistan in mid-October to advance the U.S.–Central Asia strategic partnership and strengthen bilateral diplomatic and commercial cooperation, the Special Envoy to South and Central Asia Sergio Gor announced.

The Military Court handed down its verdict against staff members of Taftish.uz and State Security Service officers Thursday, sentencing them to prison terms ranging from 4 years and 1 month to 10 years and 6 months.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev has expressed condolences to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and the people of Kazakhstan over the deaths of servicemen during military exercises in the Caspian Sea.

An assistant prosecutor in the Oqqorgon district of Tashkent province was caught red-handed accepting a bribe. He was detained in a sting operation run by State Security Service officers in cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office's Personal Security Department. Authorities say the official used his position to demand a total of $12,000 from a citizen in exchange for resolving a car-sale dispute and helping him secure a preferential bank loan of 600 million soums.

Temperatures in Uzbekistan are expected to drop further over the weekend. According to Uzhydromet, most of the country will see partly cloudy, occasionally changeable skies on September 26-27, with no precipitation expected. Temperatures will continue their gradual decline.

On 23 September 2026 on the occasion of 11th Ayurveda Day, the Embassy of India organized a Conference themed “Ayurveda for a Healthier Tomorrow,” at the Le Grande Plaza Hotel, Tashkent.

Uzbekistan will implement a mechanism to compensate consumers when power outages are not resolved within set deadlines, under a decree President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed on September 22, Presidential Decree.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Waste Management and Circular Economy Development Agency of Uzbekistan, convened government and cement industry representatives in Tashkent today to discuss the potential of cement kiln co-processing to support the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste in the country.

By order of the Interior Minister, Major General Bekmurod Abdullaev has been appointed chief of the Police Coordination Department in Tashkent's Chilonzor district.