A presidential decree signed on 10 November establishes a hokimiyat for New Tashkent before the territory is formally designated, with its chief appointed directly by the president and running costs covered by the national budget.
Police and prosecutors detained two men in Yangiyul after catching them selling 120 expired foreign-made boilers with forged certificates, then finding 500 more at a suspect’s home. A criminal case has been opened under Uzbekistan’s product-safety law.
Joint inspections of 60 greenhouses across five Tashkent region districts found 47 with no filtration systems and 13 with non-functional filters, the Committee for Ecology reported, as nighttime sweeps across the capital recorded PM2.5 and PM10 levels within legal limits.
Pavel Kim, 48, was detained in Tashkent region after 65 people alleged he lent small sums while forcing borrowers to sign notes for far larger amounts, then used those documents to extract court-ordered repayments.
Eco-police found sulphur dioxide at 1,533 times the legal limit and inorganic dust at up to 24.9 times the standard at a Bekobod steel and ferroalloy plant, triggering a 1.63 billion soum fine and mandatory filtration overhaul.
