The Tax Committee has put a draft Cabinet of Ministers resolution on mandatory digital labeling of vegetable oil up for public discussion, with the requirement taking effect on July 1, 2027 if the draft is adopted.

A court has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for fatally stabbing well-known wrestler Nizomiddin Chutboyev at a national wrestling tournament in Denov district, according to the verdict.

Moscow is preparing to match last year’s record for the Meet Global MICE Congress, which drew more than 2,500 professionals from 37 countries in 2025. On 16–17 December 2026, MGMC will return to the Congress Centre of the World Trade Center Moscow for its fourth edition, bringing together key players in the international MICE industry for high-level dialogue: event organisers, MICE service providers, corporate clients, representatives of national tourism authorities, industry associations and leading experts from BRICS and Global South countries.

A corporate document published on Oct 11 shows a Russian Wildberries unit as trust manager of the state’s stake in Uzbekistan Post, three days after the head of the State Assets Management Agency said the company had not been placed in trust management.

Special forces from Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Türkiye took part in the multinational joint exercise “Eternal Brotherhood-V” in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said.

Two people, including a 2-year-old child, were killed when a scooter collided with a car on Oct 9 in the Pakhtachi district of Samarkand province.

A provincial court on Monday suspended the eight-year prison sentence of Odilkhon Ismoilov, founder of the Rayhon cafe chain and a former imam-khatib at mosques in Tashkent, and released him from custody, the press service of courts in Namangan province said.

Defense Minister Shukhrat Kholmukhamedov has been relieved of his post and transferred to another job, the president’s press service said.

A man has been detained in Tashkent on suspicion of demanding $840,000 for promising to arrange the paperwork for housing construction on a plot of land, the Interior Ministry said.

Former chief of the Presidential Administration Zaynilobiddin Nizomiddinov has been appointed acting governor of Sirdaryo province.

A court in Chirchik, Tashkent province, has sentenced a police team chief and a community policeman to six years in prison each for taking a bribe not to open a criminal case over a beating, Daryo reported after reviewing court documents.

Behzod Musaev, the former director of the Migration Agency, has been appointed chairman of the board of the public foundation Vatandoshlar (“Compatriots”), the foundation’s website said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said universities must clearly define what kind of specialists they train and for whom, as he explained the appointment of a former provincial governor to lead the new Ministry of Education and Science, a Daryo correspondent reported.

A teenage passenger was killed and the driver, a fellow student, was hospitalized in intensive care after a car crashed in Termez district at midnight on Oct. 9, police said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended a ceremony in New Tashkent to commission seven facilities worth a combined $1 billion and to launch construction of 10 more major projects valued at $2.5 billion, the president’s press service said.

Tashkent's each district has been assigned 100 hectares of land in New Tashkent, with the aim of drawing new projects, the president’s press service said.

Rain will stop across Uzbekistan from midweek and temperatures will rise slightly, the weather service Uzhydromet said.

Uzbekistan’s Central Bank bought 8 tonnes of gold in August, bringing its purchases to 50 tonnes in January-August, the World Gold Council said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Monday that private companies are being brought into the building of New Tashkent more slowly than the project allows, even as the state pours significant funds into infrastructure, a stadium, a university and a library.

The number of business entities in Uzbekistan reached 456,700 as of Sept. 1, 2026, about 57,000 more than a year earlier, the Statistics Committee reported.