Pitești

The modern industrial stock in Romania exceeded 5.4 million square meters, the highest demand (66 pct) being drawn in Bucharest, shows the most recent report drawn up by a real estate consultancy company.

A court in the town of Pitesti, 120 kilometres north-west of Bucharest, has remanded two policemen accused of culpable homicide in custody for 30 days after they were charged with causing the death of a man they allegedly mistreated, Romanian media reported on Tuesday.

An outdoor exhibition dedicated to Polish and Romanian women who had the courage to change the world will be inaugurated on Thursday at the southern Pitesti Prison Memorial. The event is organized in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Romania.

Just like the victims of the Revolution, the political detainees of the communist regime have not yet received their justice, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Ludovic Orban wrote on Tuesday in a message on the occasion of the Day of the 1944 - 1989 Anti-Communist Political Detainees and Deportees.

The winner of the bid for the construction of segment 4 (between Colonesti and Pitesti) of the Craiova-Pitesti Express Road, measuring 31.8 kilometres in length, has been announced, and it's the same Romanian company that builds segments 2 and 3, respectively SA&PE Construct Association - Spedition UMB - Tehnostrade, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Catalin Drula, wrote on his

The Defense Ministry's specialized medical team that has been on a two-week mission to the state of Alabama, providing critical COVID-19 support to the authorities, will return to the country on Wednesday, the Ministry of National Defense said.

The Bucharest Municipality Museum launched on Wednesday the "Cinema Museion" section of its website, which provides free access to a collection of vintage documentary films that provide additional information to the resources represented by the permanent and thematic exhibitions which are temporarily closed until the state of emergency is lifted.

AGERPRES National News Agency presented on Sunday in Pitesti, with the occasion of the official inauguration of the Multi-functional Centre's film theatre, the photography exhibition 'Romania: Evolution'.

A Serbian woman has been killed, while five others - two of them Serbians - have been injured in an incident that happened in a Leoni plant in Pitesti, Romania.

According to Romanian media, a 22-year-old man, identified as Andrei Cristian Caramelea, also employed by the company, drove his car into a group of workers.

Around 8,000 people, most of them union members at the Dacia car factory in Pitesti, took to the streets of the southern town on Monday to protest about the Romanian government's failure to start work on a new highway in the south. 

The project has been discussed for years, but the government postponed it several times due to disagreements over the best route.