Orthodox Bulgaria Marks Maundy Thursday
Bulgaria marks on April 1 Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries.
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Bulgaria marks on April 1 Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries.
The emergency siren system will be tested at 11 am Thursday in 10 Bulgarian cities, the Interior Ministry informs.
The 91st day of the year and 92nd in leap years, April 1, is most remarkable in the Western world for being April Fools' Day.
Bulgarian smokers will have to swallow a raise in excise duties on cigarettes and their prices as of April 1, as the government struggles to curb smoking and relieve the health care system.
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has accepted the resignation of Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev after he was charged over the 'Tamiflu' scandal on Tuesday.
Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, has revealed that resigned Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev had the opportunity to buy 'Tamiflu' earlier and at a lower cost.
The company Roche Bulgaria had fully adhered to the law in the contract for the supply of the anti-viral flue medicine Tamiflu during the public tender announced by Bulgaria's cabinet.
Bulgaria will amend its present Health Act to allow surrogacy, which is illegal at present.
The Sofia City Prosecutor's office will request the dismissal of Bozhidar Nanev as Health Minister, Prosecutor, Margarita Nemska informs.
The staff reductions at consular offices are impeding the processing of data for the new personal ID cards and passports of Bulgarians living abroad.
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office has accused Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev of 2 unfavorable deals regarding the purchase of vaccines.
The aim of the excise duty increase on cigarettes in Bulgaria is mainly to limit smoking, Vanyo Tanov, Director General of Bulgaria's National Customs Agency has revealed.
Bulgaria's ex Health Ministry committed violation by making contracts with private firms worth BGN 9 M for which it did not have the necessary funding, Doctoronline.bg reported.
Nearly 300,000 tons of garbage collected from the capital Sofia have been dumped at the landfills near the second biggest city of Plovdiv, located in Southern Bulgaria, and the Danube town of Silistra, officials announced.
The producer of Dzift, the best Bulgarian movie for 2008, Matey Konstantinov, received the special award for best foreign film from the film fest in Salerno, Italy.
Bulgarian State Railways have announced the cancellation of train services to Thessaloniki on Tuesday, due to the announced Greek national strike.
A light earthquake of 2.6 magnitude on the Richter scale was registered Monday afternoon in Bulgaria's southern city of Sliven.
Ahmed Dogan, leader of the ethnic Turkish party DPS, must prove his brown-envelope journalism claims with respect to the journalist from the Trud Daily, Valeria Veleva.
Bulgaria's "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner", directed by Stephan Komandarev, won the audience award at the prestigious film fest in Valancienne, France.
Bulgaria faces a real danger to become a target of terrorist attacks similar to the Monday suicide bombings in the Moscow metro, terrorism expert, Ivan Boyadzhiev, believes.
Over 30 children and 40 adult beggars have been detained since March 18 in Sofia, the City Hall informs Monday.
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