Uzbekneftegaz Chairman Abdugani Sanginov held talks on Oct. 20 with a delegation of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) led by General Manager Zhou Xinhuai, covering a gas field accident and wider cooperation, the Uzbek company’s press service said.

The 10th meeting of India-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism was held in New Delhi on 22 October 2026. The meeting was co-chaired by Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan, Additional Secretary (Counter Terrorism), Ministry of External Affairs and Mr. Pirimkulov Gulomjon Shodmonkulovich, Head of the Department for Cooperation with South Asian, Near, Middle Eastern and African Countries under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

President Mirziyoyev signed a decree to develop psychological services in the continuing education system, creating a research institute and ordering regular psychological assessments of teachers and students Monday.

The Oydin Gurunglar international creative forum opened in Tashkent on Oct. 19, with officials highlighting efforts to promote reading and develop the Uzbek language, Daryo reported.

Uzbek businessman and Anorbank shareholder Kakhramonjon Olimov said on Oct. 16 he was abducted and tortured in Paris and rejected kidnapping charges against him in Uzbekistan as fabricated.

Tashkent’s city administration and U.S. investment bank Oppenheimer & Co. have discussed the possibility of issuing municipal bonds to finance infrastructure projects in the capital, the administration said.

Erkinjon Turdimov, First Deputy Prime Minister/Education and Science Minister said on Oct. 22 the education system does not need new solutions and that existing work must be properly organized. He was speaking to journalists at an international summit in Samarkand.

Hollywood actor and two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody has arrived in Samarkand to attend an AI Congress on Pediatric Oncology held as part of a World Summit on Children’s Well-Being.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said a new city, New Karshi, designed for 500,000 residents will be built in Kashkadarya province, announcing the plan at a meeting during a visit to the province.

A total of 92,300 marriages were registered in the country in January-June 2026. The figure covers only half a year, so it cannot be compared directly with full-year totals from earlier years.

The Center for Economic Research and Reforms has conducted a study on decarbonizing Uzbekistan’s agriculture, the center’s press service said. The findings were presented on Oct. 19-20 at an international seminar held at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

French journalist Didier Labouche, founder of the Georama publication, has won the Oltin Qalam (“Golden Pen”) award for the best article about Uzbekistan written by a foreign journalist.

Average concentrations of PM2.5 particles in Tashkent’s air fell 28% and PM10 particles 32% from the start of 2026 through Oct. 19 compared with the same period last year, said Doniyor Turgunov, director of the Hydrometeorological Research Institute.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev called for clearer language in government agencies, more practical language teaching and better Uzbek-language tools for science and technology in a message marking the Uzbek Language Day.

The Embassy of Israel in Uzbekistan welcomes a new milestone in bilateral cooperation in the field of archival work, marked by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Uzarkhiv Agency of Uzbekistan and the State Archives of Israel.

Electricity generation in Uzbekistan rose 8.4% in January-September 2026 from a year earlier, reaching 69.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), the Energy Ministry said.

Four members of one family have died of poisoning in the Bogot district of Khorezm province, the chair of Manaviyat neighborhood, where the incident took place, reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev launched new projects and started construction of several facilities during a visit to Kashkadarya Province, commissioning 69 projects and beginning work on 92 more.

Following the controversial remarks by the Iranian Embassy in Armenia—which claimed Samarkand was part of Persian civilization by telling US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, "Welcome to Samarkand, which was part of the very civilization you were talking absolute nonsense about last week at the Acropolis!"—historians have sparked a fresh debate on the ancient geopolitics of Central Asia, highlighting the contrasting legacies of Turkic governance and early Persian expansions.

Today on October 21, Uzbek Language Day, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law changing four letters in the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet.