Indian adventurers’ aim to show that women can meet any challenge. 

The covers and editorials from the leading weeklies of the Left and Right for work-week ending Friday, August 24, 2018: 

STA, 24 August 2018 - After being expelled from the Modern Centre Party (SMC) in late June, Milan Brglez has quit the party's faction in parliament to join the deputy group of Social Democrats (SD).

You can find our series of articles on Slovenia's many political parties, and their confusing names, here.

STA, 23 August 2018 - Dejan Židan, the leader of the Social Democrats (SD), comes to the top job at the National Assembly with a long track record in government, having served as agriculture minister in the centre-left governments of Borut Pahor, Alenka Bratušek and Miro Cerar. 

Making Ljubljana better for everyone. 

STA, 24 August 2018 - Two hundred and forty years will have passed on 26 August since the first recorded ascent of Mt Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, which later became a symbol of the nation. A ceremony marking the anniversary will be held in Bohinj on Friday. 

Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Friday, 24 August 2018, as prepared by the STA: 

The K67 is a classic of Slovene design from post-war Yugoslavia, one that stands beside other objects such as the Rex folding chair by Niko Kralj (1953), Marko Turk’s MD9 microphone (1963), and the Iskra ETA 80 telephone by Davorin Savnik (1978). 

STA, 23 August 2018 - Dejan Židan, the 50-year-old leader of the Social Democrats, was appointed the 13th speaker of Slovenia's National Assembly on Thursday, after interim Speaker Matej Tonin of the conservative New Slovenia (NSi) resigned in line with an agreement made beforehand with the emerging centre-left coalition. 

STA, 22 August 2018 - Two films by Slovenian directors have made the programme of the Toronto International Film Festival to end a nine-year drought for Slovenian filmmakers at this major event. Posledice (Consquences) by Darko Štante, will premiere in Toronto, while the second film is the already hailed Zimske Muhe (Winter Flies) by Olmo Omerzu.