TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to make a visit to India in February, The Times of India reported on Wednesday. Rouhani’s visit is scheduled to take place after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from another trip to West Asia, including Palestine, the UAE and Oman. India and Iran have started development of Chahbahar […]

NEW DELHI – On Sunday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose animated bear hug easily beats Trump’s awkward handshake, went against protocol to welcome his new friend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the New Delhi airport. After a bear hug and handshakes, the six-day visit kicked off with both leaders extolling each other and […]

TEHRAN – During a planned visit to New Delhi, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development and his Indian counterpart are expected to make the final decision about details of a deal on financing a railroad linking the Iranian southeastern cities of Zahedan and Chabahar, an official said. In a meeting with India’s ambassador to […]

TEHRAN – Iran and India are after expanding scientific and technological cooperation through announcing a call for proposals with the intention of presenting joint research projects. Through an agreement between the Center for International Scientific Cooperation of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Department of Science and […]

TEHRAN- India will start export of container cargo to Russia via Iran from January 2018, S. Kumar, the commissioner of Indian Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), announced. The official said this shipment will be done as India moves forward to operationalize international corridor INSTC, India Today reported. The move, he said, would cut down cargo […]

TEHRAN- Indian Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha voiced his country’s readiness for expansion of cooperation on information technology, communication and related industries with Iran, IRNA reported on Saturday. “Iran and India previously negotiated expansion of bilateral communication ties. We continued our negotiations today,” Sinha told IRNA after a Friday meeting with Iranian Minister of Communication and […]

Iranian short animated piece ‘Bystander’, directed by Sheyda Kashi, will be screened at the 2017 edition of Madurai Film Festival in India. The 19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2017 has put the Iranian short film of the list of selected films. Hosting a total of 50 films, the international event will kick […]

TEHRAN- India plans to send seven shipments of wheat to Afghanistan through Iran’s southeastern Chabahar Port by the end of January, Reuters reported. India launched a trade route to Afghanistan via Iran through shipping its first consignment of wheat to Afghanistan on October 29, bypassing longtime rival Pakistan. New Delhi is in talks with Tehran […]

Researchers from the LIGO-Virgo collaboration announced the first detection of gravitational waves caused by the collision of two neutron stars. The gravitational wave source was dubbed GW170817, and the event was the first time that a source of gravitational waves corresponded to observations in the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light. This is the first time that researchers had […]

TEHRAN  – Foreign ministers of Iran, India, and Oman held a meeting in New York to explore avenues for closer relations among the three Asian nations, with the focus on cooperation in the energy sector. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj, and Oman’s Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah […]