The Afghan actress Fereshteh Hosseini won the Best Performance by an Actress award for playing in ‘Parting’ directed by Navid Mahmoudi, a joint production of Iran and Afghanistan, at the closing…

The Terracotta Warriors are marching back to the UK in 2018 but - for the first time in more than 30 years - to a museum outside of London.

National Museums Liverpool and China’s Shaanxi…

‘Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth’, a research book by Romanian historian of religion, philosopher and fiction writer Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) has been…

Two young, adventurous, avant-garde artists have got together to set up a unique exhibition of audio-visual installations in Tehran.

The Education Ministry has recently incorporated content on managing violent behavior and aggression in school textbooks in a bid to help eliminate it, according to the head of the ministry’s…

The driver’s license written test in Iran will be computerized soon, announced the head of the Driver License Processing Center at the Traffic Police. “By automating the test process, human error…

While the usefulness of a companion animal in the case of physical conditions has been accepted and well-documented by the medical community, there is less research available on the role of pets…

The judiciary recently agreed to some alternative penalties in lieu of prison terms for female drug offenders recommended by the Office of the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs.

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Elham Aminzadeh, special assistant to the president in citizenship rights, said she has been in talks with Labor Minister Ali Rabiei to bring needy prisoners under insurance coverage. “Many of the…

Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi performed 12 free eye surgeries on poor patients in a mobile clinic in Qasr-e Qand County in Sistan Baluchestan Province on Saturday.

Iran’s Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) and Regional Information Center for Science and Technology have joined the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL…

During the first half of the current year (started March 20), the Board of Trustees to Fund Organ Transplants in Iran, affiliated to the Health Ministry, provided financial assistance for 450 bone…

The government's decision to change the current Iranian currency rial to toman by lopping off one zero is expected to have a short-term negative impact on foreign tourists that will gradually fade…

The bill proposed by Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization last year to support artisans is expected to be discussed and approved by the parliament soon.

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Octraves Technology representing Malaysia won the Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Award in hospitality and tourism category for its travel technology platform and big data solution for national…

An innovative scheme by Tourism Sustainable Development Institute, Iran's first Ideas Bank will soon become operational, creating a safe place for the submission of innovative ideas on small…

A direct tourism railroad from Kazakhstan's Aktau City to Incheh Borun, a city in Gonbad-e Qabus County in Golestan Province, will be constructed soon after an agreement is signed by the two sides…

A pilot plan on electronic departure tax (a charge levied on Iranians traveling abroad) has been launched at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport. Devised in cooperation with the Police…

Hessam Oqbaei, director of the Tehran Association of Real Estate Agents, said on December 6 that he would “destroy [the] Divar,” sending shockwaves through the local e-commerce industry, in what…

In President Hassan Rouhani’s budget for the next fiscal that was presented to the Majlis last week, science and technology are likely to get a boost, according to initial reports.

An Irish fashion e-commerce retailer, iClothing.com, has announced it will expand into the Iranian market, according to an interview with Dublin’s Business Post.

iClothing.com is an Irish-…

Iran’s third mobile network operator, RighTel, said Sunday it is launching an in-flight roaming service. The operator said the new service has been initiated in collaboration with OnAir; a Swiss…

More than 400 internet, science and technology firms will take part in the 22nd International Exhibition of Electronics, Computers and e-Commerce (Elecomp 22) to start from December 15 to 18 at…

The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, a…

Russia and Ukraine made little headway in natural gas talks brokered by the European Union, the first trilateral meeting since a pricing dispute between the two former Soviet states prompted the…