Sofia Municipality

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has demanded that Gen Stoyan Tonev, an MP who heads the Healthcare Committee in Parliament, media sources say.

On Monday Gen Tonev came in the spotlight after an audit of the Defense Ministry in the Medical Military Academy, a medical institution he headed between 2002 and 2013.

A consortium of Trace Group Hold and Ingproekt OOD is the first-ranked bidder in the tendering procedure for the repair of two sections of Tsarigradsko shose Boulevard in Sofia.

The outcome of the tender was confirmed by the Sofia Municipality and representatives of the consortium, according to reports of Capital Daily.

The Seventh Annual Ball of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) raised a record BGN 36,000 to support the prevention of breast cancer and child abandonment.

Half of the raised funds will benefit a breast cancer screening project, implemented by Sofia Municipality in cooperation with four Sofia hospitals that will cover women working in education in Bulgaria's capital

Bulgarians are celebrating the 120thanniversary of the tourist movement in the country with an ascent of the highest peak of mountain Vitosha - Cherni Vrah on Saturday.

The participants in the second mass ascent "In the footsteps of Aleko" will also mark the 152ndanniversary of writer and founder of the tourist movement in Bulgaria Aleko Konstantinov, Darik radio reports.

The services provided by Sofia Metro are to run at more frequent intervals from April in order to accommodate for the increased number of passengers.

This was announced by the executive director of Sofia Metropolitan Stoyan Bratoev, daily Sega reports.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has been declared Honorary Citizen of Sofia.

Bokova was awarded honorary citizenship at a ceremony at the Sofia Municipality on Monday.

The event was attended by Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Deputy Education Minister Boil Banov, and Elen Gerdzhikov, Chair of the Sofia Municipal Council.

A bus carrying children suffered a minor traffic accident on its way down from the Aleko chalet in the Vitosha Mountain to Sofia's Dragalevtsi residential district.

Nobody was injured in the accident.

Slightly after 10 am on Saturday, the bus, which had not been equipped with tire chains, hit a tree, according to the press office of the Interior Ministry.

Public institutions and universities owe the Sofia Municipality some BGN 23 M in unpaid garbage fee and property tax installments.

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The Sofia Municipality plans to sign concession contracts for a maximum period of 15 years for public transport stops in the capital, according to Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova.

The tiger which fled his cage at the Sofia Zoo Sunday morning was sedated and captured by a team of veterinarians and was returned to his cage.

Irina Sahatchieva, PR expert at the Sofia Zoo, told dnevnik.bg that the tiger was regaining consciousness after the procedure.
She said that the tiger had spent 2 hours walking around the Big Cats hall of the zoo before being caught.