TEHRAN - President Hassan Rouhani put 132 major development projects worth 14.79 trillion rials (about $352.14 million) plus €594 million (nearly $670 million) into operation in North Khorasan province, northeast of Iran, on Monday, IRNA reported.

As reported, for the implementation of the mentioned projects, a total of 8.4 trillion rials in addition to €594 million has been provided from government resources while 6.37 trillion rials"...

Nigeria won an important victory before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in a decision handed down on July 6, 2019, in a case brought against the African state by Switzerland.

The Tribunal’s Order on Provisional Measures, in The M/T “San Padre Pio” Case (Switzerland v. Nigeria), upheld Nigeria’s right to arrest and detain a Swiss-flagged oil tanker, its crew, and cargo, for having violated Nigeria’s"...

TEHRAN – A high-ranking Iranian delegation comprising a number of MPs as well as representatives of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), visited the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to discuss ways to expand bilateral trade ties.

According to the portal of ICCIMA, the Iranian delegation met with Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev and held talks on joint projects and discussed future cooperation"...

Supplying basic goods is one of the major issues on the Iranian government’s agenda in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21) and it is one of the focal pillars in the national budget bill for this year.

In this due, the government is taking numerous strategies for the supply of these goods. One of them is allocating foreign currency for the imports of basic goods through domestic Forex Management Integrated System (locally"...

W hile e-governance initiatives were to help downsize the government, the secretary of Iran’s IT Executive Council says that due to the bloated bureaucracy, these initiatives have not delivered the promised results and even made things worse.

During a press conference at the ICT Ministry on Saturday, Reza Baqeri said, “Each ministry and state agency have set up offices for offering services through mobile apps,” recruiting new"...