Society

RoboChef, the first interactive, robotic, and waiterless restaurant of the Middle East, has flipped the tables on how citizens of the Iranian capital eat out.

The female chief of the Institute of Standards & Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) has narrated the story of how she applied for a job at the Institute and finally became the first-ever woman to head the important body.

The Iranian Left-Handers Club has called for the recognition of the international Left-Handers Day in Iran’s national calendar on August 13.

Iran Football Federation, in a letter to FIFA, has stressed that the two players who appeared in a football match against an Israeli team have not been dropped from the Iranian national football team.

Iran's national volleyball team has downed the Chinese rival in straight sets (25–21, 29–27, 25–20) at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship Asian Qualification on Saturday.

Iran has signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on medical tourism with 32 countries in a specialized conference recently held in Tehran.

An Iranian MP says the government is to present a bill to the Parliament whose ratification will lead to the removal of divorce details from women’s identity documents.

Mohammad-Ali Najafi, a former education and science minister and a senior reformist politician, has been unanimously elected as the new Mayor of Tehran, replacing the incumbent conservative Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.

Nature schools are a new initiative giving Iranian students the chance to get away from the restrictions of conventional schools.

An Iranian man who had illegally exploited subterranean water resources has been sentenced by a court to carrying out some research work.

An Iranian lawmaker says the Iranian Parliament’s female MPs have decided to introduce a plan to raise the legal age of marriage for women in the country.

An Iranian conscript has opened fire on fellow soldiers in a military base south of Tehran, killing four and wounding eight people.

A portrait of Christian Ronaldo, the superstar of Real Madrid and Portugal football teams, painted by an Iranian disabled artist has grabbed the attentions of football circles across the world.

Researchers at Iran’s Fars Science and Technology Park have managed to produce coatings using nanoparticles. These nanocolours are antibacterial, air-purifying and self-cleansing.

A member of an Austrian technology institute says her country is willing to start technological cooperation with Iran.

After Qatar’s protest, the Syrian government has also slammed Saudi Arabia for politicization of Hajj pilgrimage, saying the Saudi authorities continue to deny Syrian citizens the right to perform this Islamic duty.

Fortune-tellers are cashing in on the laxity of rules in the virtual space to expand their business in Iran.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Muslims should use the Hajj rituals this year to take a united stance against Israeli efforts to control the al-Aqsa Mosque.

The 29th edition of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), an annual international informatics competition for high school students from various countries, has started in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

An American student has come to Iran alone to attend the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics while his team has withdrawn from the event.

The U-17 national football teams of Iran and France will play a friendly match to prepare themselves for the 17th edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup.

A new cigarette is being sold in the Iranian capital of Tehran, the paper of which is made from edible gold leaf. Sold for $315 a pack, these luxury products have gained huge popularity in the capital city among the rich.

Iranian karate practitioners have exhibited great punching, knee strikes as well as open-hand techniques at the 2017 World Games in Poland, and collected five medals, including four silver ones, at the international multi-sport event.

The Imam Khomeini National Space Center was officially inaugurated in Iran on Thursday with the successful test-launch of a homegrown satellite carrier dubbed Simorgh.

Iran’s energy minister on Thursday inaugurated a project to build the Middle East’s largest solar plant in the country’s southeastern province of Kerman.