State Welfare Organization is planning to add 15 shelters for victims of domestic abuse across the country, increasing the number of the facilities to 22. Currently, there are only seven shelters…
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The number of hospital beds across the country has increased by 25% during the tenure of President Hassan Rouhani’s administration, according to deputy for resources development and management at…
Electronic health records have been created for 64.1 million people in Iran (80% of population), according to Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi.
Tehran’s Baqiyatallah and Najmiyeh hospitals have pledged to set aside two or three beds for epidermolysis bullosa patients to facilitate their admission.
As these groups often suffer…
Iran is planning to launch a university aimed at educating the elderly in a bid to “bridge the generational gap” and bring older folks up to speed with the latest developments, according to the…
Particulate matter concentration reached dangerous levels on Wednesday in Natanz and Zabol, sending local authorities into damage-control mode.
Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province has been…
A staggering 27 billion cubic meters of water are wasted in Iran every year, according to the head of the Department of Environment.
Indonesia is suing an arm of Thailand’s biggest energy group, PTT, for the equivalent of more than $2 billion over a 2009 oil spill the archipelago country says damaged its environment and the…
A new type of bicycle that reduces pollution by cleaning air as people cycle could soon be introduced in Britain.
Developed by a Dutch designer, the device is first being introduced in…
There has been a 30% decline in the number of wildfires and the area they burn during the first three months of the current Iranian year (started March 21) compared with the same period of last…
Tehran's temperature is forecast to drop to 29 degrees Celsius on Thursday, Tehran Province's office of Iran's Meteorological Organization announced. In a report published on its website on…
The head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society has voiced concern about the organization’s severe lack of funds, arguing that it will not be able to continue its services without an adequate budget.
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The incidence of children born with autism spectrum disorder in Iran has increased in the past 10 years.
According to a senior advisor to Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, between 7…
Tehran City Council was scheduled to continue reviewing the safety of the latest addition to Tehran's sprawling subway system on Tuesday, as the saga surrounding the opening of Metro Line 7…
Malaysia and Iran will enhance cooperation in the education sector by introducing various programs to attract and encourage more students to pursue higher education in both countries.
Iran’…
An SMS-based system for Iran’s undercover traffic police was unveiled on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by national police chief, Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari. The mobile system provides…
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Andimeshk in Khuzestan Province in the early hours of Tuesday. According to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred 28 kilometers from…
A Health Ministry official has said that door-to-door polio vaccination is carried out in high-risk areas to immunize 6 million children under the age of 5 against crippling diseases.
Based…
A plan to round up homeless drug addicts and send them to rehabilitation centers will be implemented in the provinces of Tehran, Alborz, Sistan-Baluchestan, Gilan, Yazd, and Qazvin, Mohsen Roshan-…
Iran’s Bacillus Calmette–Guerin vaccine, primarily used to treat tuberculosis, has been approved in Mexico and exports will begin once the paperwork is processed.
Private investors have pledged 1.1 trillion rials ($29 million) for cultural heritage projects in Isfahan Province to help launch 90 schemes since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March…
Work on Sarzamin-e-Iranian (meaning Land of Iranians), a massive tourist resort 35 kilometers southwest of Tehran, is progressing well and will partially open by the end of the current Iranian…
All Iranian airlines that had cancelled their Najaf route have been given the green light to resume flights by the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran.
Speaking to reporters in Yazd on…
Qeshm Airlines will launch the Tabriz-Hamburg route on July 14, as part of Iran's plans to improve the northwestern Iranian city's global profile ahead of its hosting of tourism ministers from…
Businesses in Asia have often justified the so-called elephant tourism by arguing that the industry benefits elephants and helps safeguard this endangered animal. But new research shows that…
