The government will allow traffic violation cameras installed by businesses to record drivers who do not wear seat belts from November 1, the Ministry of Justice said, citing a resolution dated October 29.

Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed an agreement establishing a High-Level Business Support Council at the end of talks in Ankara.

The mayor of Tashkent has signed a decision to allocate 5 billion soums to Pakhtakor football club, according to a report on the decision.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev met the CEOs of four Turkish business groups in Ankara on the sidelines of the latest Turkic Summit, the presidential press service said.

A court has sentenced four officials of Garden Catering Trade, which supplied meals to kindergartens in Fergana where 105 children were hospitalized with food poisoning in February, to house arrest or corrective labor, the press service of the courts of Ferghana province said Thursday.

As part of his visit to Türkiye to attend the Turkic Summit, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday met the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, the presidential press service said. Mirziyoyev congratulated the Turkish people on Republic Day, the national holiday, and wished them peace, sustainable development and prosperity.

Uzbekneftegaz expects its gas production to fall by 9.5% this year as reserves at its largest fields become heavily depleted, chief geologist Nodir Mukhiddinov said at a press conference on October 27.

Prosecutors are conducting a preliminary inquiry into the death of a young woman born in 2005 who died in Kashkadarya province after surgery to remove a pituitary tumor, the provincial health department said.

An atmospheric inversion in Tashkent could last another 10 days, worsening air pollution, Uzhydromet warned. “Dust and pollutants are continuously being released into the air,” the agency said in a statement. “If there is no wind, it is harder for them to disperse.” It said rain also washes dust particles out of the air, and that in the absence of both wind and rain pollutants keep accumulating. An inversion makes it even harder for them to rise and disperse, it said.

Nearly 80,000 people in Uzbekistan are receiving unemployment benefits, Sobir Khayitmurodov, chief of a department at the Employment Ministry told journalists in Tashkent Wednesday.

Rail lines linking airports with railway stations are planned in Tashkent, Urgench and Bukhara, according to a draft strategy for comprehensive development of domestic passenger transport through 2030.

A new recreation area with an artificial lake will be created on Keles Yuli Street in Tashkent’s Almazar district, near Victory Park, the district administration said.

Electricity demand in Central Asia will rise by 27% by 2030, according to Arman Akhunbayev, head of the Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Centre for Sector Analysis.

Foreign enterprise Uklon UB has been designated in Uzbekistan as a digital platform operator with a dominant position in the market for taxi aggregator services, the press service of the Committee for Competition Development and Consumer Protection said.

Uzbekistan is proposing to move to fully cashless fare payment on suburban passenger trains and on suburban and intercity bus routes from Jan. 1, 2030, according to a draft resolution.

Uzbek citizens have increasingly been refused entry at foreign airports and borders in recent years, and several countries have tightened or scrapped visa-free access for them, local media reports and official statements show.

Uzbekistan is proposing to implement a unified national digital transport platform, Bir Yol, from Jan. 1, 2028, bringing together rail, air, bus and urban public transport services, according to a draft resolution developed by the Ministry of Transport.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will make a working visit to Türkiye on Oct. 29-30 at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the presidential press service said.

MPs in the Legislative Chamber approved in first reading on Oct. 27 a bill on supporting business owners that would cap tax penalties at the amount of the underlying tax debt.

A number of legislative changes and other new rules take effect in Uzbekistan on Nov. 1. Firstly a new gas supply scheme will be deployed.