The grandson of Gio Ponti, the renowned Italian architect, has called for help from the Committee for Conservation of Historical Houses in Tehran to save his grandfather’s work, Villa Namazee in…

Construction on Iran’s largest ski resort in Zardkouh, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province, will commence next year, according to a provincial tourism official.

A sub-range in the central Zagros…

Thai AirAsia X is suspending all of its Middle Eastern operations, just a few months after it entered the region. The Bangkok-based low-cost carrier started flying to Muscat and Tehran in June…

Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan intend to launch direct flights to the Iranian capital Tehran.

President Hassan Rouhani, who is touring Central Asia, met with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan…

Airbnb plans to spread its wings into air travel, pitching the home-rental startup against the likes of Expedia, Skyscanner and Google.

According to Bloomberg, the new flights service is…

The first edition of the Startup Entrepreneurs Conference was held at the National Library of Iran earlier in the week.

It brought together entrepreneurs, startup aficionados, press corps…

During the first meeting of Science and Technology Exchange Program of Islamic Countries (STEP) in the Malaysian capital, a Jordanian scientist claimed that there is an unequal distribution of…

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone has been taken out of the sky after entering the no-fly zone near the Presidential office area in downtown Tehran on December 23.

Mohsen Hamedani,…

A new research document released in the US suggests with the help of artificial intelligence cancer could quickly become a disease of the past.

Scientists at the Pharmaceutical Artificial…

Researchers at Iran’s Islamic Azad University, have developed a new strain of plants with the addition of FSG-plasma (fluorosilicate glass), according to Mehr News Agency. Non-thermal plasma…

The Iranian 3D movie ‘A Hell of a Wedding’ has won its second international award at its second presence in a festival abroad.

Participating in the 8th edition of 3D Stereo MEDIA…

Kara Orchestra, led by Iranian conductor Bardia Kiaras, 37, will stage a performance with wind instruments on December 28 at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

The Iranian folk music band Rastak has released a new album titled ‘Mian-e- Khorshid-Haye Hamisheh’ (Forever Among the Sun) in two audio and video editions.

The album is named after a…

Veteran author of children’s books Abdolmajid Najafi was honored at the Tabriz branch of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), on December 21.

The Persian translation of Mithridate, a tragedy by Jean Racine (1639-1699), one of the three great French playwrights of the 17thcentury, has been brought out by the Tehran-based Parseh Institute…

A solo photo exhibition by Iranian photographer Kiarang Alaei is underway in Paris until December 29.

Titled ‘Semi-Permeable’, the photo collection introduces social interactions and…

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A gunman who shot three worshippers in a Zurich mosque on Monday evening was a 24-year-old Swiss man with Ghanaian roots and no apparent links to terrorist groups, police said on Tuesday. The…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry have proven that bilateral relationship can be effective in many areas, outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki…

Malaysia's state oil company Petronas signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday to study Iran's Azadegan and Cheshmeh Khosh oilfields.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration has fined a South Korean home appliance manufacturer about 30 trillion rials ($750 million at market exchange rate) for violating Iran’s import…

Malaysia will embark on a free trade agreement talks with Iran to take advantage of the potential growth of bilateral business since trade sanctions against Tehran were lifted in January, said…

Warning: Big numbers ahead. You might also need a pen and a notebook to keep track of the baffling yet surprisingly huge figures that officials of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development have…

The parliament voted to raise Iran’s sovereign wealth fund’s share of petroleum revenues to 30% for the sixth five-year development plan (2016-21), up from the previous 20%.

Based on the…

Cooperatives will be granted 100% waiver on penalties provided they pay their taxes by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2017), the head of Iran’s National Tax Administration, Kamel…