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Smart cards will replace insurance booklets from September this year as per a bill approved by the Supreme Council of Insurance, said Taghi Nourbakhsh, head of the Social Security Organization (…

Iran will attend the forum on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment that will be held on the sidelines of a UN summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda, mandated by the UN…

All physically challenged people will be issued an international ID card in the second half of the current Iranian year (started March 21), said Hossein Nahvinejad, deputy head of rehabilitation…

Bit by a rattlesnake while taking a selfie with it, a man from San Diego in the US faces a hospital bill of over $150,000 for treatment.

Earlier this month, Todd Fassler’s “arm went purple…

Some 2,800 tourists from non-Muslim countries visited the shrine of prominent Islamic personality Hazrat Fatima Massoumeh (AS) in Qom during spring.

European tourists constituted over 85%…

Sistan-Baluchestan Province’s tourism officials have been urged by the province’s Border Patrol Headquarters to form a committee for improving security for foreign tourists. “We are ready to do…

Britain revoked an official warning against all but essential travel to Iran on Saturday, citing “decreased hostility” in the wake of a landmark nuclear deal.

Almost all of Iran is now…

An Iranian aviation official said the country seeks more direct flights operated by Iranian or foreign airlines from Tehran to the capital cities of European countries, including Germany, France,…

A recent study revealed the nationalities that give the best and worst hotel reviews.

The Travel Smarts study, courtesy of Agoda.com, analyzed more than seven million hotel reviews from…

Health screening of first grade students started in June and all students will be subject to health examination, said Majid Ghadami, head of the Special Education Organization.

Over 300,000…

Police stations will be equipped with gyms and fitness equipment by the end of this year (March 20, 2016) and all police personnel are obliged to perform routine workouts three times per week,…

Despite advancements in the various health sectors, rabies is still endemic in Iran, said Mohammad Reza Shirzadi, head of the Disease Control Center at the Health Ministry.

About 160,000…

The president of Greece’s largest children’s charity says his organization is running out of money because of the economic crisis.

Kostas Giannopoulous said refuge homes in Athens might…

Fruit juice that contains additives such as flavors, food coloring (dye), sugar and organic acids will no longer be classified as natural juice, and must be labeled as “beverages containing…

Two years after commencement of the national home radon testing project in Alborz Province under the supervision of the Health Ministry and universities of medical sciences, the plan is receiving…

Annually, more than 10,000 Afghans enter Iran and put the country at the risk of infectious diseases, including cholera.

Cholera is still a major epidemic disease in Afghanistan which can…

The financial costs of the recent floods in Alborz Province which damaged people’s homes, farms, gardens, bridges and roads, have been estimated at $6.25 million.

Iran is free of avian influenza and in the coming days, “we will announce our status of being free of the disease to the World Organization for Animal Health,” said head of Iran Veterinary…

Environmental protection must be deeply ingrained in Iranian culture, and the ministries of oil, energy and industries must make environmental education a priority in the current Iranian year (…

Residents of Khuzestan and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces might be able to apply for low-interest bank loans in the near future to reinforce their homes against recurring dust storms.

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An expert sought stringent restrictions on planting water-intensive crops in arid regions, calling for those in violation to be levied hefty fines.

Farmers around Lake Urmia, West Azarbaijan Province, will be paid for their water rights, as long as the government offers them alternative means of making a living.

The significant increase in the number and size of for-profit universities has turned into a grave problem for the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

Haraz Road will become a four-lane highway by the end of this year (March 20, 2016), making driving hassle-free for those heading towards the northern Iranian provinces, said Ezatollah Yusefian…

Nearly 1,000 people affected by the recent floods in Alborz Province will each get $5,300 as home repair loans, said Heidar Hamedi, provincial deputy of Reconstruction and Rural Housing. …