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Emblematic radio producer Paul Grigoriu died on the evening of April 3, the National Radio Broadcaster announced.

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Nearly 100 people left condolence messages on the Facebook page of Valentin Nicolau, a respected playwright and former director of TVR (the Romanian public television) who died on Tuesday, at the age of 54, following a cardiac and respiratory arrest.

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Alina Gorghiu was elected on December 18, 2014 as chairperson of the old National Liberal Party (PNL), the position implying the co-chair status in the new PNL.

Education minister, Sorin Cimpeanu on Thursday said that at the Education Ministry has arrived the request by the University of Bucharest to withdraw the PhD title in Law of Prime minister Victor Ponta and added this could be enforced according to the symmetry of the law, through an act similar in value to the one through which it has been granted.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta wrote a letter to Bucharest University rector Mircea Dumitru, announcing him of his decision to give up the PhD title in law he was granted in 2003.

The University of Bucharest will confer, on Saturday, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, during a ceremony that will take place in the Constantin Stoicescu hall of the Palace of the Law School.

Romanian computing prodigy Ionut Budisteanu, representing the University of Bucharest, on Tuesday evening was awarded a new prize, this time in Shanghai - China, where he came first in the IT international competition 'Embedded System Design Contest.'

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) will put into circulation a mint set comprising three coins (gold, silver and coppered tombac), and a separate silver coin dedicated to the anniversary of 150 years since the foundation of the University of Bucharest.