Production of six cars has been discontinued by local auto factories. All the vehicles were made in or imported from China. Modiran Vehicle Manufacturing (MVM) pulled the breaks on the family…

An Iranian firm is selling its latest CNG kit for the two-wheeler vehicles in the Indian city of Surat.  Officials from ITUK Manufacturing India Limited, a subsidiary of TUK Manufacturing…

The Swiss Parliament has approved a law aiming to curb immigration by giving priority to local workers at open jobs.

The law stops short of imposing quotas as Swiss voters demanded in a…

A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the US…

Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were in a van driving to the…

US President Barack Obama said on Friday it was fine for president-elect, Donald Trump, to review Washington’s “one-China” policy toward Taiwan, but he cautioned that a shift could lead to…

Dozens of Polish MPs protested in parliament on Friday over plans to restrict journalists’ right to cover proceedings, as thousands of demonstrators marched outside in support of the lawmakers.

A Pakistani school bus driver was killed and several children were wounded in Indian firing along the de facto Kashmir border, Pakistan said.

The incident occurred at Mohra Village in the…

Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a car bombing targeting off-duty conscripts being taken by bus on a weekend shopping trip, the latest in a string of attacks to…

The Nima National Award ceremony will be held in the port city of Nowshahr, in Mazandaran Province on January 5, on the death anniversary of Nima Youshij (1895-1960), founder of ‘New Poetry.’

Veteran actor, writer and theater director Jafar Vali, passed away on Saturday, December 17, in Tehran Clinic Hospital. He was 83.

‘A Night with Rumi,’ a music performance has been organized for Sunday, December 18, at Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

The 10th National Biennale of Persian Painting opened Saturday, December 17, at Tehran’s Negarestan Museum Garden.

A total of 195 works are participating in the competition section, which…

Acclaimed cartoonist and graphic designer Kambiz Derambakhsh has used ink on paper for his latest exhibition.

Titled ‘Endless Stories’ it is underway at Seyhoun Art Gallery, located at No.…

The closing ceremony of the 2nd International Music Festival Muhammad, the Prophet of Kindness, was held at Bahman Cultural Center in southern Tehran on December 15.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the situation in eastern Aleppo may be resolved in two to three days.

The Russian Reconciliation Center reported earlier that about 6,000…

Thomas C. Schelling, an economist and Nobel laureate whose interest in game theory led him to write important works on nuclear strategy and to use the concept of the tipping point to explain…

South Korean MPs are holding a hearing to investigate why impeached President Park Geun-hye went “missing” during a major ferry disaster in 2014—the latest trouble to hit the pressured leader.…

Iran’s largest automaker, Iran Khodro, is planning to tender a 33.7% block of its voting shares in Bank Parsian, according to a letter sent by Kamran Ataei, the deputy head of IKCO, to the…

Oil prices fell on Wednesday following a reported rise in US crude inventories and an estimate that OPEC may have produced more crude in November than previously thought, potentially undermining a…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday received Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who was in Tehran to attend a meeting between the high-ranking delegations of the…

The research arm of the Iranian Parliament has published a first-of-its-kind report detailing six reasons why the Banking Reform Bill–a scheme for undertaking major reforms in the banking sector–…

The state commission for infrastructure-related affairs has approved the annual construction of 100,000 housing units for low-income groups in the framework of Social Housing Plan, announced the…

The Office of Vice President for Science and Technology Affairs will send the final version of “financial framework of knowledge-based economy” to the government by December 21, in which fintech…

Bank Melli Iran has launched an online platform that allows passengers to pay departure tax. According to Masoud Khatouni, director of CBI’s IT department, currently the platform can be used only…