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Serbians return from Egypt

A plane with 120 Serbian tourists from Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada landed on Monday evening at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport.
As Serbian Ambassador to Cairo Dejan Vasiljević said earlier, after the departure of that group from the two resorts, no Serbian tourists remain in Egypt.

Belgrade airport lowers prices

Nikola Tesla International Airport has lowered the prices of its services which could reduce plane ticket prices by EUR 100.

The Belgrade airport has reduced prices of its services for all types of planes and all air carriers by seven percent.

Belgrade airport lowers prices

Nikola Tesla International Airport has lowered the prices of its services which could reduce plane ticket prices by EUR 100.

The Belgrade airport has reduced prices of its services for all types of planes and all air carriers by seven percent.

Serbians to get “another free share”

Eligible Serbian citizens will this month receive one free share each, this time from the Belgrade International Airport Nikola Tesla.
The value of the share will be some RSD 600 (EUR 5.7). Along with five shares per citizen from the NIS privatization, this would bring the value of the package to just over EUR 30.

Minor delays at Belgrade airport

The traffic at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla International is for now being realized without major delays.
Two flights from Tunisia will be late for about ten minutes, Belgrade Airport PR Katarina Bjelanović told Tanjug on Tuesday.

Belgrade airport introduces e-gate

The e-gate system was introduced today at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla International Airport. The system will enable more efficient border crossing without direct control by the border police.

Tesla’s birthday declared Science Day

The government has declared July 10, the birth date of scientist Nikola Tesla, the Day of Science in Serbia.

The Ministry for Science and Technological Development said in a statement on Friday that it would also propose to the UN and UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) that July 10 be declared the international day of science, said Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister of Science and Technological Development Božidar Đelić.

Chinese parliament delegation in Belgrade

A delegation of the Chinese National People’s Congress Standing Committee headed by Chairman Wu Bangguo arrived in Belgrade on Wednesday.
The Chinese officials werer welcomed by Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla International Airport.

July 14, 1965: Mariner 4 Brings Mars Up Close and Cardinal

1965: After a few million years of watching Mars from afar, humanity meets the red planet — not quite in person, but through the eyes of NASA’s Mariner 4 satellite.
The half-ton space camera flew past Mars eight months after being shot from Earth on an Atlas rocket, having traveled 325 million miles. It flew within [...]

Airport introduces new taxi stands

Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla International Airport has today introduced marked taxi stands at the arrivals section of its Terminal 2. The airport said in a statement today that it had supported an initiative put forward by several Belgrade taxi associations to form additional parking spaces at the stand.

July 9–10, 1856: Visionary Tesla Born at Midnight

1856: Scientific genius and visionary inventor Nikola Tesla is born at the stroke of midnight in the unassuming village of Smiljan, in what’s now Croatia. He wastes little time in revolutionizing the world through foundational developments in electromagnetism, electrical current, wireless power and communications, weaponry, robotics, computer science, mass media and much more.
“Tesla is like [...]

Taxi drivers protest at Belgrade airport

Independent taxi drivers have blocked the entrance to a taxi stand at Belgrade Nikola Tesla International Airport.
They are protesting the decision to allow registered taxi companies to have their own taxi stand.

March 5, 1904: Tesla’s Having a Ball

1904: Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.”
Ball lightning (if it exists at all) is an electrical discharge, usually appearing in spherical shape that, unlike regular lightning, tends to linger awhile. It occurs naturally but rarely, and despite the best efforts of Tesla and others, the exact origin of the phenomenon [...]

TENT union warns, “strike not over”

The Nikola Tesla power plant (TENT) union will consider going on strike again if the government does not make good on its promise to allow increase of wages. “Regarding (Economy) Minister Mlađan Dinkić’s statement on the possibility of canceling the agreement, we are warning the Serbian government that the strike is not over and that it will not end until the agreement’s implementation begins,” the union stated.

EPS reacts to wage hike controversy

Serbian state-owned power company EPS says an announced raise of its employees’ salaries will not come from higher electricity bills. The agreements signed between the Serbian government and the worker unions of EPS, and Nikola Tesla Thermal power plant “have not raised employee salaries, nor the total salaries determined by the 2010 Business Plan”, the EPS public relations service told Tanjug on Thursday.

IMF unhappy with salary increases

The public sector salary increases in Serbia are not in line with the government’s stand-by loan arrangement with the IMF, says its representative in Serbia. Bogdan Lisovich reacted to the news that the government has approved a 8.5 percent salary raise for power plant Nikola Tesla and that it has been negotiating another increase, this time for Telekom Srbija.

More passengers after visa lifting

The number of passengers traveling to other European countries from Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport has increased since the lifting of the EU visa regime. This is according to the airport, that stated it recorded an increase in the number of passengers to European capitals of more than 20 percent compared to the same period last winter.

Deal signed, strike over at TENT

The management and the union of power plant Nikola Tesla (TENT) in Obrenovac struck a deal with the government and ended their strike. The agreement on the employees’ demands on Tuesday afternoon, putting an end to the strike at the biggest thermoelectric plant in Serbia, president of the strike committee Milovan Despotović told Tanjug.

Thermoelectric plant workers to begin strike

Union officials said that workers of the Nikola Tesla Thermoelectric plant (TENT) will begin a strike tomorrow. According to the union, the workers are not satisfied with the agreement reached with the government.

Distribution of free shares starts on jan. 6

Those Serbian citizens with right to free shares will be able to obtain a certificate proving their ownership of five NIS shares as of Jan. 6, Beta reports. They will also become owners of the shares of pharmaceutical company Galenika, telecom provider Telekom Srbija and the company managing the Belgrade airport, Aerodrom Nikola Tesla, some time during the year, Economy Ministry official Nebojša announced.