TEHRAN – A sales exhibition of handicrafts is due to open on Monday in the northwestern city of Urmia, the capital of West Azarbaijan province. “Up to the moment craftspeople from 29 provinces [out of 31] have been set to take part in the event, which will be held for the 5th consecutive year,” a...Read More

International Mathematical Union (IMU) named 3 May, the birthday of “Maryam Mirzakhani”, the International Women’s Day in Maths, on the proposal of the Women’s Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society.  The proposal was approved by the Women’s General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union on 31 July. For her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and...Read More

TEHRAN – While only 300 organ donor cards have been issued per day on average in the country over the past years, the number has now increased to 14,000, deputy director for the Iranian Society of Organ Donation has said. Currently, some 5 million Iranians have organ donor cards, IRNA quoted Omid Qobadi as saying...Read More

TEHRAN – Iran’s Marjan Salahshouri won a silver medal in women’s individual Poomsae event in the 2018 Asian Games. She lost to Defia Rosmaniar from Indonesia at the Plenary Hall of the Jakarta Convention Centre. Rosmaniar scored 8.690 to pip Salahshouri who scored 8.470. Earlier in the day, Kourosh Bakhtiar claimed Iran’s first medal in...Read More