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Next month, Bucharest will become the world capital of poetry. The National Museum of Romanian Literature (MNLR) is preparing, between September 9-15, a new edition of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival (FIPB).

The Minister of Education, Ligia Deca, announced the launch in public consultation of the Framework of digital skills for students, appreciating that the future normative act will be "a real support" for teachers in guiding the activity...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's publicly expressed anger at Alexei Smirnov, the governor of the Kursk region, after the invasion of that area by the Ukrainian armed forces, is well-founded as long as the politruk from the south of the...

• "The investment mandate of the FP should focus mainly on the continuation of investments in national entities", is one of the criteria that the administrator must fulfill, subject to the vote of the shareholders 

Fondul Proprietatea...

• Interest rates between 5.8% and 7% for securities in lei, respectively 4% and 5% for those in euros  

• Gross brokerage was nearly 11%, 3.5 percentage points below the commission for the first six months of last year, according to the company's report  

The big school exams have entered the area of changes and adjustments.

Heatwave kills people, that's the reality.

In 2024, the UNTOLD festival managed to rank 3rd in the Top 100 Festivals made by the British publication DJ Mag, ahead of festivals with a long tradition such as Glastonbury, Coachella, Burning Man and ULTRA Music.

In the context of the increase in defense spending at the European level and the need to quickly equip the Romanian armed forces with the latest equipment and technology, compatible with those of NATO allies, in order to ensure the stability of...

Reporter:: How did the construction sector perform in the first semester of 2024? Is there a greater appetite for investment in the industrial area? Has the residential market contracted or stagnated compared to the first half of 2023?

• Escondida produces over one million tons of copper per year 

Workers at the Escondida mine in Chile belonging to the Australian giant BHP Group Ltd. were to go on strike yesterday because they failed to reach a wage agreement, reports...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday kept its forecast for global oil demand unchanged in 2024, but downgraded estimates for 2025, citing the impact of Chinese consumption, according to Reuters.

Humanity is under the sign of lasting wars. In Ukraine we are talking about years of conflict, and in Gaza already for months. Things can be different with regard to these misfortunes, and history proves this to us

The Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, announced that the institution he leads has allocated a "record budget" of over 400 million lei for the restoration and preservation of cultural heritage, the funds targeting essential projects,...

The big exams are being prepared from the holidays. This is not only true for students.

Space is no longer safe at all since it became very "crowded" with satellites, rockets and other more or less flying objects. A

Young people find it a bit easier to find a job compared to the last part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

Chinese fast fashion retailer Shein is considering opening a warehouse in the UK as it continues its plan to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), according to The Telegraph.

The law on the capping of interest at non-banking financial institutions and the limitation of claims requested by debt collectors, a normative act that joins the law of giving in payment, citizens have a shield that protects them against any...

• Banca Transilvania and OMV Petrom securities sales; acquisitions of Hidroelectrica, Romgaz and BRD shares 

• Aripi, Metropolitan Life, BCR Pensii and NN Pensii reduced their investments in Fondul Proprietatea

• Three mandatory private pension...

The Olympic Games, the greatest sports competition of mankind, have ended and I hope not to see another edition like this one in Paris

The medical expertise ordered in the 13 criminal files regarding the suspicious deaths of some patients in the ATI Covid section of the Sibiu Emergency Clinical County Hospital have not been completed, although 3 years and 5 months have passed...

Forests are being cut down at an accelerated rate all over the world, the disease is not exclusively indigenous.

Sexual harassment in education has become a hot topic this summer. The Ministry of Education supports the need to promote general regulations regarding cases of sexual harassment, which apply equally to public and private educational...

Children in the villages of our country exercise, but very little sports. More than three-quarters (81%) of children from rural areas do not participate in sports activities outside of physical education classes at school, and 41% of parents...

Shares of Ola Electric Mobility Ltd rose in their debut on the Mumbai Stock Exchange on Friday, buoyed by strong investor demand amid widespread adoption of electric vehicles in the country, Bloomberg reports.

Shares of India's largest...

The leaders of the Social Democratic Party have already begun to announce their desire to occupy certain positions in the future leadership team of the political formation that will be elected at the Congress that would take place on August 24.

The cultural press received a refreshing "injection" from the authorities.

• "The inflation forecast does not look bad, but two words abound in the BNR press release - risks and uncertainties"  

• The energy system - melted by the heat wave 

• In July, the BNR reduced the monetary policy interest rate from 7% to 6.75%; last week, the key interest rate underwent a further reduction of 0.25%

• July 1st 

- The BNR announces that, on June 30, 2024, the foreign exchange reserves at the National Bank of Romania stood at 64,392 million euros, compared to 65,072 million euros on May 31, 2024.

• Fidelis bonds worth 2.1 billion lei were listed on the BVB in July 

• Dividends of almost 1.9 billion lei from OMV Petrom

The indices of the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had slight increases in July, before the sharp...

The restoration of historical monuments represents a direct support for ...public memory. The Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, announced the launch of a new financing subprogram for the restoration of historical monuments, the amount available...

Changes in temperature greatly influence life on this planet. The water temperature in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached its highest level in 400 years in the last decade, according to a study.

Two ATI doctors, employed at the Pantelimon Hospital in the capital, are accused by the prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bucharest Court (PTB) of the premeditated murder of a patient by drastically reducing the dose of...

The scandal related to the extra-didactic activity of some native university professors caused waves of reactions.

Electromagnetica is selling eleven low-power hydropower plants, located in the Suceava River Basin, for 33.5 million lei including VAT, according to a report of the producer and supplier of energy and lighting fixtures published yesterday on the...

With 8 out of 13 recommendations satisfactorily met, the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) believes that our country is on the right track regarding the rule of law, according to the report published yesterday, but adopted in the plenary...

In a year when more than four billion people are eligible to vote in global elections, geopolitical concerns have emerged as a top concern for central banks and sovereign wealth funds, according to a report by asset management company Invesco....

The authorities in Moscow rejected the transaction between Anheuser-Busch InBev and Anadolu Efes, by which the world's largest beer producer wanted to sell its stake in their joint venture in Russia to the Turkish partner, the companies...

Yesterday, the government approved the Start-Up Nation 2024 program, with a budget allocation of almost 446.2 million euros, of which 80% are European funds from the Education and Employment Program 2021-2027 through the European Social Fund...

BURSA celebrates 34 years of uninterrupted operation on August 10th, a living and vigorous example that authentic and upright journalism is possible in Romania and that there is no need to kneel as a journalist, neither before the owners, nor...

The Bank of Israel has requested that banks present a plan to redirect deposits from current accounts to term deposits, after banks stopped paying interest on these accounts, according to the Israeli press. The letter sent by the Bank of Israel...

Pointed at from many directions, on grounds of sports performance and doping, China has reminded itself that the most effective defense is attack. China's anti-doping agency (CHINA) has asked the International Testing Agency (ITA) to step up...