India’s consumer price index inflation is likely to average around 5.3% in 2017, up from 5.1% in 2016, but the Reserve Bank of India might still cut repo rate by 25 bps in the first quarter of…

The global offshore oil industry could cut exploration costs by more than 30% if it would just agree to use standardized equipment, according to the International Marine Contractors Association (…

The world's first solar highway has opened in France, in the not-very-sunny village of Tourouvre au Perche in Normandy. The roadway is just 1-kilometer long, but that still works out at 2,800…

The past two and a half years have not been kind to oil companies. But drillers and energy services firms have dramatically slowed the deluge of bankruptcies that tied up nearly $80 billion of…

Plans to overhaul Iran's retail fuel market are expected to get underway next month with the privatization of several gas stations nationwide.

South Pars gas extraction offshore platform 17B, weighing 2,300 tons, has been installed with the help of a domestic HL 5000 crane ship in line with plans to fast-track gas production from the…

The Riyadh-based newspaper al-Eqtisadiah retracted a story saying Saudi Arabia is planning to sell almost half of Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s largest oil company known as Aramco.

At a specialized workshop on implementing the final package of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, on Saturday, UNICEF representative in Iran…

Bipolar disorder is a serious mental disorder that involves depression and elevated moods. The highs are known as mania or hypomania, depending on their severity.

The condition typically…

The number of birds dying from avian influenza at Mighan Lagoon Wetland in Markazi Province has increased dramatically over the past week. “A total of 940 dead birds were found around the lagoon,…

Nearly one third of all traffic accident victims are pedestrians, said head of urban traffic division at the Law Enforcement Forces. “Based on the data from the first nine months of the current…

The Charter on Citizens’ Rights which was unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani at a ceremony last week will be offered as a university course.

Currently, 20 domestically-produced biotech drugs are available in the local pharmaceutical market, and over the next five years more drugs that are now in the human clinical trial phase, will be…

Annually, 12,000-20,000 prisoners acquire literacy through the Literacy Movement Organization (LMO). “The literacy services are offered under an agreement signed between the LMO and the Iran…

Urban and rural areas are marked by many differences, namely population density, economic development, amenities, jobs, education, division of labor, and occupational mobility.

The adaptation of the classic Russian play ‘Ivanov’ directed by Iranian theater director Amir Reza Koohestani, has been selected as one of the top 10 performances in Portugal in 2016 by Publico, a…

The 14th edition of Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF), due in January 2017 in India, has dedicated a section to exclusively focus on Iranian cinema by showing eight movies produced…

Two acclaimed movies by renowned Iranian filmmakers will be shown in Muscat this week.

Following the cinematic interactions between Iran and Oman, the Embassy of Iran in Oman will show two…

The ‘Nightingale of Gilan,’ Nasser Masoudi, returns to the stage at a music concert January 5-6, 2017 in Rasht, capital of Gilan Province.

Laleh Art Gallery in Tehran is showcasing a total of 31 landscape paintings created by six artists.

The exhibition opened December 23 at the gallery, located next to Laleh Hotel on Fatemi…

‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ the popular novel by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad, 88, has been translated into Arabic and published in Beirut.

Iranian translator, writer and journalist Ahmad…

Iran has been placed 6th in the latest world ranking for nanoscience production, the founder of the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) said on Saturday.

Engineers at a knowledge-based company affiliated to Sharif University of Technology, has been able to build a firefighting drone that relies on indigenous technology.

A Swedish academic delegation visited the University of Tehran on Saturday aiming to expand scientific and educational cooperation.

The delegation met with Tehran University officials to…

Mike Zimmerman likes to shock his guests by using a hammer to drive a nail through a solid polymer lithium metal battery. Nothing happens — and that’s a good thing.

Zimmerman’s battery is a…