Tehran, Feb 16 (IANS) First cargo train from China to Iran arrived in Tehran on Monday, indicating a milestone in reviving the “Silk Road”, which has opened a new chapter of win-win cooperation between China…
Tehran, Feb 15 (IANS) Russia is shipping S-300 air defence missile systems to Iran, the country’s foreign ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said on Monday. “The agreement for the delivery of S-300 systems has been…
Havana, Feb 15 (IANS) Cuba’s biotechnological industry is developing a long-term strategy to turn cancer into a manageable chronic disease, health experts have said. The island country currently has 28 medical products registered or in…
Sarpreet Kaur, a volunteer with the World Sikh Organization, delivers boxes of cupcakes, Toronto, Feb 15 (IANS) Members of Toronto’s Sikh community on Sunday delivered dozens of pink boxes containing cupcakes, and chocolates to four…
Tehran, Feb 15 (IANS/EFE) Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Rokneddin Javadi announced on Sunday that his country has increased its oil production by 400,000 barrels per day after the lifting of international sanctions against the Islamic…
Jovan Damjanovic, president of World Roma Organisation New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Following External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj terming people of the Roma community spread across the world children of India, an international conference here…
Beijing, Feb 14 (IANS) Tianqin, China’s domestic gravitational wave research project initiated by the Sun Yat-sen University in July 2015, is awaiting governmental approval. The US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced its ground-breaking discovery…
United Nations, Feb 13 (IANS) An international inquiry to determine responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict has narrowed down its initial targets from 116 to five, said a report. The…
Mexico city, Feb 13 (IANS) More than 230 inmates were relocated from the overcrowded Topo Chico prison in the state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico after a riot there left 49 prisoners dead, authorities said….
Manila, Feb 12 (IANS) Some 350 Filipino couples were married in a mass civil wedding on Friday in Manila’s commercial district of Malate, two days ahead of the Valentine’s Day. One septuagenarian couple, each aged…
Mexico City, Feb 11 (IANS) A riot in a prison in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon on Thursday left at least 52 prisoners dead, officials said. At a press conference in state capital…