Crude prices may have stabilized, but it is still not a great time to be Big Oil.

South Azadegan Oilfield output will exceed 80,000 barrels per day by the end of the current fiscal year in March, deputy director of Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC)…

With the declared aim of improving the quality of oil byproducts by upgrading production in refineries, Iran is due to finalize contracts worth $6.6 billion with Southeast Asian oil giants…

The National Iranian Tanker Company is prepared to expand its fleet using the potential of domestic companies, albeit if they prove their mettle, sys the company's chief executive officer.

Fifteen days after the half-century old Plasco Building collapsed, urban managers and public authorities seem to be taking their responsibilities seriously to keep the large numbers of old…

The bird flu outbreak has spread to 14 provinces in the country, said Deputy Health Minister Ali Akbar Sayyari on Wednesday.

“There is still no case of human avian flu, but the risk remains…

Planning meals and snacks in advance and eating breakfast every day may help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, new guidelines from US doctors say.

Over the last five years, philanthropists have funded the construction of 4,300 healthcare units including hospitals, clinics as well as health houses in rural areas, said Seyed Reza Nayeri,…

Tooth decay (or cavities) is the most common infectious disease after influenza across the world, said Dr. Mansoureh Mirzaei, dental specialist and member of Iranian Academy of Cosmetic and…

Genetic banks to help check crimes have been established in six provinces of Tehran, Alborz, Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan, Fars and Khuzestan. Fifty people have been recruited in the six provinces to…

The 1st HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy) educational, research and treatment facility and the 1st multi-chamber educational center in Iran was opened on Tuesday at the Golestan Hospital belonging…

The sex ratio at birth currently stands at 100 girls to 105.9 boys in urban areas and 100 girls to 105.8 boys in rural areas in the country. 

The Energy Ministry predicts that water stress will worsen throughout the Central Iranian Plateau over the next few months, according to an excerpt of a report published Monday on the ministry's…

The consensus among experts and environment officials is that Tehran is losing the battle against land subsidence.

The concern is justified, since the plains in southern Tehran are…

Camera traps in Minab, Hormozgan Province, have captured images of a rare Persian leopard, only the seventh such sighting in the country in the current year (started March 20, 2016).

The…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is home to the world’s largest repository of climate data.

Residents in pollution hotspots could be relocated under new clean air proposals.

Cornwall Council has discussed plans that could include compulsory purchases of properties in areas with "…

Without a significant effort to reduce greenhouse gases, including an accelerated deployment of technologies for capturing atmospheric carbon and storing it underground, and sustained growth in…

Japan’s domestic sales of new cars, trucks and buses rose 8.6% in January from a year earlier, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Wednesday. Sales of all vehicles totaled 258,085 in…

At a press conference called by Irtoya on January 30 in Tehran, company officials voiced concern over the future of auto imports.

Irtoya is the legal importer of Toyota in Iran. 

India’s Bajaj Auto’s December quarter performance sprang a positive surprise for the owners of the company. At a time when analysts had penciled in subdued results after factoring in the drop in…

The Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) has released the latest figures on auto imports for the first ten months of the Iranian year (March 20, 2016-January 19).

The Seventh Golestan Auto Show opened on January 31 in the northeastern region’s capital city Gorgan, according to local automotive press. More than 40 local and international firms are at the…

A European Parliament deadline for France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen to return more than €300,000 it says she has misspent has passed.

The presidential candidate had until midnight to…

A Tunisian man arrested in Hesse, Germany, on Wednesday on suspicion of recruiting for IS is also accused of involvement in the deadly 2015 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, prosecutors said.…