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Family-owned Kende Gastro has opened a bistro in the Agora Budapest office building that uses an autonomous, checkout-free platform developed by US startup AiFi.

An explosion occurred in district XIX., in Budapest, in the basement of a detached house Tuesday morning.

“Remembrance is a part of our shared future,” András Heisler, the president of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz), said on Monday at a commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Jewish ghetto in Budapest. The survivors of the Holocaust would soon all be gone “and we’ll be left to ourselves […]

The House of Hungarian Music will open its gates on January 23 in Budapest’s City Park, and offer concerts, workshops, music pedagogy sessions and other programmes aimed at reaching new audiences, operative director Márton Horn told a press conference on Friday.

Budapest’s FKF waste management company collected nearly 200 cubic meters of waste after the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the city, the company said on Saturday.

On 31st December, metro 2 hit and killed a man at the Kossuth tér metro station in Budapest.

The European Dog Show (EDS) featuring some 16,000 dogs from 57 countries opened in Budapest on Wednesday. Opening the four-day event, the agriculture minister said keeping dogs has always been important for the Hungarian nation.

Budapest public transport company BKV will use a total 10.5 billion forints (EUR 28.4m) to raise the wages of some 10,000 employees next year, business daily Világgazdaság said, noting basic wages are set to rise by an average 15%.

One person died and one was injured after the loft came off in a grocery store in Budapest, a spokesman for the Budapest Police Headquarters (BRFK) said.