TEHRAN – The Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation and the Basij will provide 5,000 houses for the underprivileged families across the country, Mehr reported on Monday. A memorandum of understanding has been signed with the Basij and Housing Foundation regarding the construction of 5,000 out of a total 40,000 planned housing units, Morteza Bakhtiari, Head of […]

TEHRAN – The Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade has approved 6.702 quadrillion rials (about $159.6 billion) of investment projects in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 -October 22), which shows a 133.3 percent rise compared to the last year’s same period. According to the latest data released by […]

TEHRAN – Aliakbar Gharibshi seized a gold medal at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships on Sunday. He lifted 251kg in the men’s up to 107kg category and won the gold. He also bettered the world record by four kilograms. Mongolian powerlifter Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar came second with 244kg. Gharibshi’s countryman Saman Razi also won a […]

TEHRAN – Hamed Solhipour seized Iran’s first gold at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships underway in Tbilisi, Georgia on Saturday. With an impressive drive for 225kg, Solhipour retained his crown in the men’s up to 97kg to win back-to-back titles. “I’m very happy and delighted”, commented Solhipour. “And I think I deserve this medal.” […]

TEHRAN – Tourism is the most important component of rural development in north-central Semnan province, Semnan’s Governor has announced. In the province, tourism is considered an important priority of rural development, with villages being encouraged to utilize their existing resources, CHTN quoted Seyyed Mohammadreza Hashemi as saying on Saturday. Villages in the province can have […]

TEHRAN – The traditional skill of making giant earthen tandoors, which have long been practiced in the city of Ferdows, eastern province of South Khorasan, has won national cultural heritage status, a local tourism official has announced. Tandoor making is the practice of making traditional and home bakery ovens out of clay, which has been […]

TEHRAN – A total of 158 trillion rials (nearly $3.7 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) allocated from the national budget to school construction, Mehrollah Rakhshanimehr, director of the Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment has announced. Last year, school building benefactors have allocated a sum of 33 trillion rials (around $781 million […]

TEHRAN – The Vice Presidency for Science and Technology aims to help large companies and startups develop markets for products by launching eight new biotechnology accelerators. Since 2016, the process of creating bio-accelerators started to pace up with the support of the Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice President for Science and Technology, and there […]

TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), lost 5,337 points to 1.334 million on Saturday (the first day of Iranian calendar week). Over 4.311 billion securities worth 90.917 trillion rials (about $736 million) were traded at the TSE. The first market’s index lost 5,105 points, and the second market’s index dropped […]

TEHRAN – Aquatic habitats in the northwestern West Azarbaijan province play host to more than 100,000 water birds and shorebirds annually, which enter the wetlands to spend the winter, Omid Yousefi, head of the wildlife surveillance of West Azarbaijan’s department of environment, has said. Due to the available resources in West Azarbaijan, a large number […]

TEHRAN – Rouhollah Rostami of Iran won a silver medal at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships on Friday. Gu Xiaofei of China won the gold medal by lifting 230kg and got his revenge over Rostami for losing the Paralympic First place medal in Tokyo. Rostami finished in second with 230kg. The bronze medal went […]

TEHRAN – Iran were defeated by Romania 39-11 in their opening match of the 2021 World Women’s Handball Championship Friday night. In the match held at the Pabellón Ciutat de Castelló in Castelló, Romania cruised to their largest win at the World Championship since the 47-14 drubbing of Puerto Rico in their opening match at […]