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The Antimonopoly Committee of Uzbekistan, following a review of public procurement, identified violations related to restriction of competition in a number of contracting organizations. The total value of these procurements amounted to nearly 10 billion soums. Violations were recorded in the Andijan, Fergana, Jizzakh, Namangan, Navoi and Samarkand regions.
Ecology and climate change: greenhouse farms of the capital region, heated with coal, ask to be allowed to continue operating on the condition of switching to environmentally friendly technologies, following residents' complaints about deteriorating air quality. Modernization, online emission monitoring, and a switch to gas, electricity, geothermal and solar energy are proposed.
19-year-old Cal AI calorie-counting app founder Zach Yadegari spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt about how the company earned more than $30 million in two years through mass paid influencer posts. In March, Cal AI was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount. In October, Yadegari launched the startup Persona, which has already raised $10 million.
Rashid Malikov's film was named best feature film at the X international Eurasian Bridge festival, held in Moscow on October 5–9 with films from 14 countries participating. The film previously had its world premiere in Cairo and received an award for best screenplay in Sochi.
In the fifth episode of The Celebrity Traitors season two, the Traitors killed Rob Beckett face to face, at the 'parade of death' the celebrities solved puzzles and won the entire prize fund for charity, and at the round table mathematician Hannah Fry was banished by majority vote — even her fellow Traitors voted for her. YouTuber King Kenny became the new Traitor.
The European Commission has begun preparing a 23rd sanctions package against Russia, with new restrictions possibly presented by the end of 2026. Politico reported this citing sources. The initiative is being pushed by Germany and Poland; at the EU meeting on October 15, plans include discussing strengthening restrictions in the energy sector.
At the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco, 20 startups competed for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. The winner was Intero Biosystems from Denver, a developer of lab-grown intestinal 'organoids' for drug testing. Second place went to the Australian Apate, which uses AI agents against scammers.
On the Indonesian island of Bali, queues of motorcycles and cars formed due to fuel delivery delays. Authorities and Pertamina attribute the problem to logistics rather than a shortage of stocks and promise additional supplies.
On October 12, at around 23:10, in the Yunusabad district of Tashkent, the driver of a Toyota born in 2007, according to preliminary data, lost control and, failing to keep a safe distance, collided with a Tracker 2 driven by a man born in 1980. There were no injuries; an investigation is underway.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev reviewed a presentation on the introduction of 'green' technologies in greenhouse farming. It is proposed that by 2030 land and property taxes for household greenhouses be reduced by 50%, they be exempted from turnover tax, half of electricity costs be compensated, and grants and preferential loans be allocated for the modernization and construction of greenhouses.
NASA has published an image of the Saribara massif in Madagascar, where anorthosites — rocks similar to lunar ones — outcrop at the surface. The photo was taken on August 28, 2026 from the ISS by a member of Expedition 75 and was selected as the 'Picture of the Day' on October 5. The massif has long been studied: in 1998, the crystallization age of the anorthosites was estimated at about 660 million years.
The press service of the Tashkent administration announced the appointment of Doniyor Yusupov as deputy khokim of the capital — head of the Department for the Operation of City Canals and Improvement of Adjacent Territories. The position had been vacant; it was previously held by Abdulaziz Israilov. Before the appointment, Yusupov worked as deputy khokim of the Yunusabad district.
According to Eurostat data cited by Naked Science, compared with 2018 the share of students with results below the basic level in mathematics has increased in almost all European countries. The worst figure is in North Macedonia (68%), the best in Estonia (17.2%), although even there the result worsened. Turkey was the only country with an improvement.
On October 13, at around 12:30, opposite school No. 56 on Shabnam street in Andijan, a Chery Tiggo 8 Pro driven by a man born in 1957 hit a child crossing the road. The driver did not flee and, together with a traffic police officer, took the victim to a medical facility. The car was placed at an impound lot, and an investigation is underway.
Uzbekistan's Ministry of Economy and Finance has put up for public discussion a draft resolution raising the retail price of liquefied gas for the population from 2,000 to 5,000 soums per kilogram including VAT. For socially vulnerable families, a compensation of 3,000 soums per kilogram is provided, but no more than 20 kg per month. The introduction date differs between the document and the explanations: October 1 or November 1, 2026.
Donald Trump, speaking to journalists, denied reports that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been halted and said the US is helping the parties reach a final truce. He also commented on Ukraine's alleged strikes on Russian energy facilities and promised to later assess the effectiveness of the energy truce. According to Reuters, on October 13 Russia did not strike Ukrainian energy facilities for the first time.
By Presidential Decree PQ–368 of October 12, 2026, goals for the development of Uzbekistan's transport and logistics system for 2026–2030 are set: logistics center capacity of at least 40 million tons, service exports of $3.5 billion, transit of 18.5 million tons. From November 1, 2026, the fee for processing international courier shipments is reduced by 20%. Tax incentives are provided for logistics centers and exemption from duties on imports of components for automakers.
On 12 October, the Namangan regional court heard the appeal against the verdict of Odilkhon Ismoilov, founder of the Rayhon cafe chain, who had been sentenced on 13 July 2026 to eight years of imprisonment. The punishment under the article on embezzlement through appropriation or squandering was left unchanged, but under Article 72 of the Criminal Code it was made suspended with a three-year probation period. After the ruling was announced, Ismoilov was released from custody in the courtroom.
