An international conference on geo-tourism is to be held next year in Lorestan Province, said the director general of Zagros Region Geology Center, Zahir Heidarinejad. The province with its many…
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Since the Tehran Municipality’s next year draft budget (beginning March 21) is being discussed in the Tehran City Council (TCC), more open sessions are being held to speed the process.
The ministry of sports and youth affairs is offering youngsters marriage assistance. Planning deputy at the ministry Mohamoud Golzari said young people eligible for marriage will receive cards…
Experts have begun work to determine medical tariffs for the next calendar year (beginning March 21). The planning deputy at the Medical Council said all the tariffs including the cost of routine…
Needy patients with terminal illnesses will receive special assistance with the help of charitable donations. Planning deputy at Tehran University of Medical Sciences Dr. Mahmoud Biglar said a…
The Civil Servants Pension Organization is seeking to lessen its reliance on government as part of its goals in the Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2016-2021). The head of the…
The proposal to use school walls for commercial purposes in the form of advertisements has raised a controversy with a member of the Majlis Education and Research Committee voicing fierce…
A new study points to closing your eyes “as a means to improve event recall.”
Scientists tested several people’s ability to remember specific details of films which depicted fake crime…
Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi has called for increasing tax on tobacco. Pointing out that 10 million people waste their money on cigarettes and “a huge amount of the ministry’s…
Free land will be given to those interested in building four or five star hotels in Lorestan Province, announced the director general of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism…
Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) has issued a permit for higher hotel prices according to the domestic inflation rate, and the hotels in the country are…
By the end of the current Iranian year (ends March 20), about 1,000 to 1,500 construction projects will be launched in order to increase the accommodation capacity of Qeshm Free Zone.
The ministry of health and medical education can contribute to and play a more effective role in boosting economic growth and development, especially in trying conditions and when oil revenues…
The government is launching plans to make health insurance for every newborn baby compulsory. Resources Deputy Behbod Pourshetaban at the Iran Health Insurance said as part of the national health…
There have been no reports of serial burglaries or robberies so far in the country. Crime Police Chief Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Moghimi quoted by ISNA said the reports by some news media…
There are 14,000 women bread-winners employed in the ministry of education.
The Social Security Organization is studying ways “to make retirement plans more versatile and efficient.” Minister of Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabeie said that one of the first programs…
The counseling deputy at the ministry of education said the ban on carrying mobile phones by students into classrooms is still in place because of the non-educational functions of such devices.
For 300 pupils in a school in Hamedan Province the news that their teacher had cancer prompted an unusual response -- they shaved their heads in sympathy.
“They did it out of respect to a…
Even a small amount of exercise, such as a brisk daily 20 minute walk, reduces the risk of premature death.
Lack of exercise is twice as deadly as obesity, but a brisk 20-minute walk each…
The first gathering of Iranian eco-tourists will be held in Shahrud, Semnan Province, from February 11 to 13, according to Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO)…
Luxury travel being the privilege reserved for the wealthy is a thing of the past. Today’s consumers have more access to these services, and this is thanks to ‘disruptive’ low-cost airlines and…
During the first 9 months of the current Iranian calendar year (ends March 20), 48,491 foreign tourists from 88 countries visited the monuments of Kashan in Isfahan Province, ISNA quoted head of…
Iran will host prominent specialists and surgeons at the Seventh International Neurosurgery 11-day Congress, sponsored by world-known neurosurgeon Prof. Majid Samii and attended by about 1,500…
Nearly 13 % of Iranians don’t visit the dentists during their lifetime. The rest are also afraid of being contaminated by infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, etc, Mehr News Agency quoted…
