A water security committee has been formed at the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission to study the causes of Iran’s worsening water situation and help authorities devise…
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A senior official at the Urmia Lake Restoration Program has said that criticism directed at one of the program’s schemes is misplaced because it was never implemented.
This year (started March 21) a plan to collect genetic samples from people convicted of serious offences will be expanded to all provinces, according to the head of Iranian Genetic Information…
The 17th Annual Conference of the Iranian Society of Dermatologists will be held on July 26-28 at Olympic Hotel in Tehran. “So far, eight scientists from the European Society for Pediatric…
The city of Arak in Markazi Province has earmarked 120 billion rials ($3.1 million) to combat air pollution in the metropolis, according to the governor of Arak County. “The budget will be…
An online database of historical and cultural places that have disability access will be launched in two weeks, according to the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism…
The average university graduate aspires to make it big in large cities, to get somewhere in their field of study, to have a job that pays well and to live a comfortable life.
But there are…
France will raise the price of cigarettes to €10 ($11.4) a pack within three years, the health minister said on Thursday, confirming a strategy that will push tobacco costs to among the highest in…
During the past two years, the Iranian Red Crescent Society has conducted 2,397 rescue operations in the country’s mountainous regions, according to Shahin Fat’hi, deputy head of operations at…
Around 23% of Iranians between the ages of 15 and 64 suffer from moderate to severe depression, according to Ali Asadi, deputy head of the Health Ministry’s Psychology and Health Department.
France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses gasoline or diesel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a “revolution”.
Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel…
Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi has accused the Industries Ministry of supporting the production and trade of tobacco and counteracting plans to reduce its consumption.
Speaking at…
The scenic Haraz Road connecting Tehran to popular holiday resorts in Mazandaran Province will be closed for certain hours as of today until July 13.
The term of the current city and rural councils will end on September 3 unless the Guardians Council approves a proposal by lawmakers to bring the date forward, according to the outgoing chairman…
scheme to teach reading and writing to immigrants in the 10-49 age group in Alborz Province has helped educate 1,200 people, according to a provincial education official. Moharram Ali…
Social Emergency Centers across the country provided free crisis intervention services to 5,225 people who tried to commit or were contemplating suicide in the last Iranian year (ended March 20,…
The Department of Environment is preparing a bill that would scrap taxes on waste management schemes. The proposal is aimed at creating economic incentives to encourage the private sector to…
The Department of Environment has voiced dismay with a recent move by Tehran City Council to charge hybrid vehicles an emissions fee to enter restricted traffic zones, which includes Low Emission…
Wrapping freshly-baked bread in plastic bags has almost become a tradition in Iran. However, environment authorities are understandably not happy.
Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhea – a common sexually-transmitted infection – much harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat.
Over the past four years the antinarcotics police managed to dismantle 11,000 drug smuggling rings across Iran, according to Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.
Overuse of antibiotics in Iran has reached dangerous levels, with more than half of prescribed drugs deemed unnecessary by many experts.
According to Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh…
In a bid to address the woefully high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, the Health Ministry has proposed a plan that would oblige dairy producers to sell only vitamin D-fortified milk.
The world’s smallest and most accurate 3D-printed biopsy robot has been revealed.
A total of 66 new subway cars will join the Tehran Metro fleet by next week, according to Maziar Hosseini, deputy for traffic and transport affairs at Tehran Municipality.