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Ganesh Chaturthi, also called Vinayaka Chavithi, is an auspicious Hindu festival celebrated for 10 days every year. It marks the birthday of the beloved elephant-headed Lord Ganesha, known as the God ...

A forest fire was brought under full control at 8.15am on Monday in the “Alakati” location of Kambia community in Nicosia. According to a statement from the forestry department, the ...

The ministry of finance has extended the deadline for submission of tax returns until the end of October. In an announcement on platform X (formerly Twitter), the ministry said that ...

A convict in the Central Prisons was injured while climbing a gate on Sunday and taken to the Nicosia General Hospital. The prison guard branch of police union Isotita said ...

Police are asking for information that can help in locating Demetrios Rizou, 14 years old, from Greece, who has been missing since Monday, from his home in Nicosia. The teenager is ...

Police in Paphos arrested two people in the last three days during traffic checks for illegal possession of narcotics. According to Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou, two people in two ...

Monday will be mostly clear and hot with temperatures expected to rise to 38C inland, 33 in the south, east and north coasts, 31C on the west coast and 28C in ...

Six bird species have stopped breeding on the island over the past seven decades, reducing the robustness of Cyprus’ ecosystems immeasurably, Birdlife Cyprus told the Cyprus Mail. “Since 1950, we have ...

Cyprus’ capital city boasts just four per cent of tree coverage Whenever a data collection company releases a table of statistics regarding tree coverage or green spaces in European cities, ...

A pilot programme in Larnaca has seen numbers of the pests reduced A programme to battle increasing numbers of mosquitos on the island is already showing results, with a notable ...

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested seven more people in connection with a n investigation to the forgery of medical prescriptions, reports from the north said on Sunday. The seven arrests ...

ELENI PHILIPPOU looks forward to the 14th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival in Nicosia next month The Pharos Arts Foundation returns to The Shoe Factory in October to present the 14...

The Nicosia-Troodos road was closed temporarily in both directions on Sunday afternoon due to an accident, police said. The accident involving a bus and two cars, happened near the Evrychou ...

An on-duty police officer and another man who were killed by a car on Friday night on the Larnaca-Ayia Napa highway, both died from multiple injuries, post mortems on Sunday ...

Police task force cracking down on illegal trade With drug busts on an almost daily basis and increasingly large stashes found, the island’s police drugs task force has painted ...

Police confirmed reports on Sunday that they maintain a list of foreign nationals suspected of possible links to terrorist groups abroad. In statements to the Cyprus News Agency following a ...

Organic production in Cyprus has made huge strides in the past two decades, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Sunday during the first annual organic farming festival in Denia. The ...

The north’s universities are facing crises ahead of the start of the new academic year in October, with financial and administrative issues plaguing its largest academic institutions. The Eastern ...

An out-of-court fine of €1,500 was imposed on a 61-year-old man found to be in possession of a quantity of duty-free tobacco products, police said. According to police, the man was ...

Xenophon Kallis, head of the missing persons service at the foreign ministry for many years, has passed away at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, CyBc reported ...

Paphos police are investigating an attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday in the village of Psathi, they said. According to police, a 31-year-old man was shot at around 5.30...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received two refusals from the Turkish Cypriot side and one ‘yes’ and one ‘no’ from Turkey to two proposals related to a joint meeting with the ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting September 18: Tourist arrivals to Cyprus witnessed a significant surge of 60,254 visitors in August 2023, a rise of 13.4 per cent ...

President Christodoulides will return from New York empty-handed, despite the expectations he raised about a breakthrough on the Cyprus issue, because of his refusal to put his positive agenda into ...