The building of the Hungarian State Opera will be renovated over the two years for approximately HUF 23 billion (that is, currently about EUR 74 million), the public gazette Magyar Közlöny is quoted by the financial website portfolio.hu.

Internationally renowned Hungarian writer Péter Esterházy died in Budapest at the age of 66 years. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.His was reported by the Hungarian news agency MTI, citing the family and the publisher of the author.

India's Minister of State for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, visited Hungary this June on the occasion of the Ganges-Danube Cultural Festival and the International Day of Yoga. That is when he spoke to Diplomacy & Trade.

Budapest-born American actor and circus performer Mihály 'Michu' Mészáros died in Los Angeles. Mészáros was probably best known as the man behind costume of ALF, the extraterrestrial living with an American family in an NBC comedy series.

Vörösmarty Square in the downtown area of the Hungarian capital is the venue of the 87th Budapest Book Week and its accompanying event, the 15th Children Book Days. Visitors have the opportunity to look at the selections of some 200 publishers.

The Embassy of India in Budapest, in cooperation with the Hungarian representatives of several prominent yoga schools, organizes the Ganges-Danube Indian Cultural Festival, a variety of programmes to raise awareness of a healthy and conscious lifestyle.

'Touch', a painting by Hungarian artist Attila Szûcs, was sold for GBP 16,250 az Sotheby's n London this week. The amount, which was over four times the starting price, is the highest paid for the work of a Hungarian contemporary artist.

British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Jane Goodall visited Hungary and gave a speech in Budapest's Tüskecsarnok arena during the presentation of her book entitled 'The Birth of Hope'.

The Budapest Spring Festival 2016, launched this Friday, offers a number of programs in a variety of categories ranging from orchestral concerts, opera and dance performances to contemporary crossover productions between April 8 and 24.

Porcelain objects made in the world-renowned porcelain manufacture in Herend, Western Hungary, are packed in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest to take them for a two-year special traveling exhibition in five Japanese cities.

The winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in literature, Hungarian novelist Imre Kertész has died at the age of 86. The novel Fatelessness he received the Nobel Prize for is said to be one of the most unsettling and credible works of art about the Holocaust.

The traditional Hungarian Easter ceremony of men sprinkling women with water was one of the elements presented to visitors in the Sóstó Museum Village in the outskirts of the noertheastern Hungarian city of Nyíregyháza on Easter Monday.

The head of the Public Service University in Budapest, András Patyi and that of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, Matthew D. Shank signed have signed a five-year agreement on cooperation primarily in law enforcement and cybernetics.

The Son of Saul, a recent winner at the Golden Globe Awards, a movie by Hungarian director László Nemes Jeles has been given the Academy Award in the foreign-language film category by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts opened a 19th century photo art exhibition in Budapest in order to introduce to the public the pictures of studio photographers whose work was largely ignored by photographic historians in the 20th century.