Deputy for social affairs at the State Welfare Organization, Habibollah Masoudi Farid, says at least 10% of the health sector’s annual budget should be allocated to mental health programs.
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Urmia Lake's water level has dropped from 1,270.64 cm to 1,270.38 cm, showing a 26-cm decline over a year.
However, Farhad Sarkhosh, the head of the provincial office of Urmia…
Iran’s top environment official warned that the ongoing water crisis, if left unchecked, could pose a grave threat to national security in the coming years, calling for the adoption of…
Costa Rica is a major producer of oranges, but local orange juice-making companies tend to have little use of orange peels.
So in 1998, one of the juice makers dumped 12,000 tons of…
Villa construction in the farmlands of northern Iran is strictly banned by a recent order issued by the government. Based on the order, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Roads and…
The project underway on dredging canals and straits feeding Gorgan Bay and Miankaleh Wetland should be postponed until ecological studies are carried out, said the head of Iran's National…
A bus carrying 45 passengers, mostly school students, overturned in Darab County in Fars Province in the early hours of Friday. Ten people were killed and 35 were injured with the…
Even if we aren’t tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts at the University of Nottingham have published research that suggests the human propensity for contagious yawning is…
President Hassan Rouhani has said he will declare war on poverty and narrow the yawning gap between the haves and have nots during his second term in office that ends in 2021.
International Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Day will be commemorated on September 9 at Tehran’s Shahid Rajaee Heart Hospital, located at the junction of Vali-Asr Street and Nyayesh highway…
The literacy rate in Iran has grown 2.8% in the five-year period between 2012 to 2016, ISNA reported the head of Literacy Movement Organization, Ali Bagherzadeh as saying.
“The number of…
The National Disaster Management Organization of Iran has allocated 1.2 billion rials ($33,000), for retrofitting, renovating and improving the safety in seven prisons across the country, ISNA…
Iran Traffic Police chief, Mohammad Hossein Hamidi has warned about the high rate of road accidents during the final month of summer to September 22. “Over the past few years this month…
Iranians celebrated Eid al-Adha (better known as Eid-e Qorban or the feast of sacrifice), an important festival on the Islamic calendar that marks the climax of the annual hajj pilgrimage…
Masoumeh Ebtekar, the newly appointed vice president for women and family affairs, says she is determined to push “for the approval” of the bill on protection of women against violence.
Famous tourist places, including Venice and the Maldives, are at risk of disappearing altogether due to climate change and over-tourism. Many of the famous tourist attractions around the world…
A score of new vacation houses have recently been opened in the northern city of Astaneh Ashrafieh in Gilan Province, the deputy head of the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage, …
A looming US travel ban has prompted some daring American globetrotters to fast-track their vacations to North Korea.
Beginning September 1, United States passports will be invalid for…
Lack of proper advertisement is a major impediment in the way of Iran's domestic tourism, a senior official at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization said.
Eight marine tourism spots along the Caspian Sea coastline in Mazandaran Province have been identified with the aim of facilitating investment in the sector, the head of the provincial office of…
The French Embassy in Iran has rejected accusations of fraud in its outsourced visa section in a statement on its official website.
The embassy has entrusted visa-related tasks to…
A large, 18-country study suggests that it is not the fat in your diet that’s raising your risk of premature death; it’s too many carbohydrates --especially the refined, processed kinds of carbs…
Every year in June high school graduates coveting a seat in state or private universities sit for the university entrance exam, popularly known as Konkur. This competitive nationwide…
Addressing and removing social ills afflicting the capital appears to be on top of the agenda of the newly-elected mayor. In the early hours of his second day in office on Tuesday, Mohammad Ali…
The Health Ministry’s department for infectious diseases will provide free hepatitis B vaccination to all regular blood donors [those who have donated blood more than twice in the past],…
