Novi Sad

LAZAREVAC - The Serbian government is doing all it can to stabilise the energy system, but there are no plans for power cuts, Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic said as the Kolubara Mine Basin started draining water from the Tamnava West Field coal mine on Wednesday.

NOVI SAD - The 14th annual Festival of Street Musicians has begun in Novi Sad with a performance by the world-famous Harlem Gospel Choir.

The festival, which opened late Thursday, ends on September 6 and will feature more than 200 participants - soloists, bands and troupes from the United States, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Mexico, Moldova, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

NOVI SAD - Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens' Initiative 'Freedom, Democracy, Justice“ (SDP) and the most famous prisoner in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), said Sunday that the participation of KiM Serbs in the new government in Pristina, in full coordination with the Serbian government, could prove a far more efficient way to promote their vital interests.

NOVI SAD - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said Sunday that a new provincial government must be formed by the end of September in order to prevent further devastation of Vojvodina.

NOVI SAD - Jamie Magazine will appear in the Serbian language print on October 1 and it will be issued by the Novi Sad-based Color Press Group.

Jamie Magazine, featuring recipes of world-famous contemporary chef Jamie Oliver, first appeared six years ago. With the contract signed last week in Novi Sad, the number of print editions has reached the figure of ten countries.

BELGRADE - The Novi Sad-based Energotehnika Juzna Backa and Romanian SC NESS Proiect Europa SRL are tasked with draining water and sludge from the open-pit coal mine “Tamnava-West Field", based on the tender invited by public company Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) and Kolubara Mining Basin.

Festival canceled after reports neo-Nazi would perform

NOVI BEČEJ -- The organizers of the Kamp Pustai Music Festival in Novi Bečej have the event, tanjug is reporting.

This came after accusations that the festival program features the performance of Hungarian neo-Nazi Balazs Sziva and his rock band.

BELGRADE - The organisers of the Kamp Pustai Music Festival in Novi Becej, in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, cancelled the event after accusations that the festival programme features the performance of Hungarian Neo-Nazi Balazs Sziva and his rock band.

BELGRADE - The Vatican has sent no invitation to Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church to visit Pope Francis, says Ladislav Nemet, the Roman Catholic bishop of Zrenjanin, adding that outtakes from his interview to the Novi Sad-based Dnevnik daily have been misinterpreted.

"Patriarch accepted invitation to visit Vatican"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej has accepted an invitation to visit Catholic Pope Francis in the Vatican, says Catholic Bishop of Zrenjanin Ladislav Nemet.