Tuesday, 04, August, 2026

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A woman in the Chiroqchi district of the Qashqadaryo region has stood trial on charges of driving her daughter-in-law to suicide. The case was reported by the news outlet Daryo, citing official criminal court records.

On Monday, following the government meeting on problems in the fuel and energy sector, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited construction sites in New Tashkent, his press service reported.

On July 27, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a video-conference government meeting on priority tasks in the fuel and energy sector.

Georgy Sorokin, a notorious underworld figure known by the aliases "Jora Tashkentsky" and "Soroka" (The Magpie), has been arrested in Egypt and extradited to Uzbekistan.

A new Center for Digitalization of Fuel and Energy Complex and AI Implementation will be established under the Ministry of Energy, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced during the government meeting Monday.

A criminal case has been launched in Samarkand after three men brutally beat a local resident, the press service of the Provincial Police Department reported.

The Shaykhantakhur District Criminal Court in Tashkent has handed down a verdict against Mubin Mirzaev, the former First Deputy Chairman of the Tax Committee, alongside nine co-defendants, the press service of the Tashkent City Courts said.

In the first half of the year, Uzbekistan's local government bodies failed to publish nearly 24,200 of their adopted decisions — almost 29% of the total, the Anti-Corruption Agency said in a report.

Oilada chaqaloq paydo bo‘lganda, do‘konlardagi banka va qutichalar javonlari avvaliga sarosimaga soladi. Ko‘plab brendlar keng assortiment, turli tarkiblar va yosh oralig‘ini taklif etadi. Ota-onalar farzandi uchun eng yaxshi bolalar ovqatini tanlashda nimalarga e’tibor qaratishlari kerak? Maqolada aytib o‘tamiz. 

A court in Surkhandarya province has sentenced a police officer to 15 years and 1 month in prison for raping a minor, the press service of the provincial courts.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the decree appointing Sherzod Khodjayev as the Minister of Energy, replacing Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov, presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov announced today.

Uzbekistan has announced new concessions and incentives for Afghan transit vehicles, AtlasPress reported. According to the Taliban’s Ministry of Transport and Aviation, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Transport, Ilkhom Makhkamov, met with Mullah Mohammad Fazel Mazloom to affirm that Tashkent will introduce favorable conditions to help boost the volume of Afghan transit traffic.

Road traffic accidents across the country left 3,306 people injured during the first six months of this year, the National Statistics Committee said in a report.

At a session of the Legislative Chamber, lawmakers reviewed, in its first reading, a Bill On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts in Connection with the Improvement of Legislation in the Sphere of Migration.

In Tashkent, a 29-year-old man who beat to death the five-month-old child of the woman he was living with has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Uzbekistan is bracing for a wave of hot weather during the final week of July, according to the national weather service, Uzhydromet.

On July 24, Tashkent's Yashnabad District Criminal Court held the first hearing in the case against Bakhodirjon Sidikov, former chairman of the board of Uzbekneftegaz, and eight other defendants. 

Footage had earlier circulated on social media showed a car with a dead dog tied to its rear. The Kashkadarya Province Police Department has issued a comment on the incident.

The government has approved a project to modify the general master plan for the city of Jizzakh. According to the document, the master plan outlines the key directions for developing the city, taking into account its socioeconomic development characteristics, natural and climatic conditions, and projected future population growth.

In January–June 2026, Uzbekistan received $9.3 billion through international money transfer systems — 13% more than in the same period last year, according to the review of the domestic foreign exchange market released by the Central Bank.