Sand and dust storms engulfed the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province on Wednesday with wind speeds reaching 76 km/h, said Morteza Faraji, an expert from the provincial office of Iran…
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Those who are regular consumers of hookah (water pipe) are at higher risk of stroke than people who smoke cigarettes, said head of the 24th International Congress of Neurology and Clinical…
Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to meet Iraqi officials and discuss avenues of cooperation.
“Iran and Iraq share a number of commonalities and must…
In a meeting between President of the Iranian National Science Foundation (INSF) Nosratollah Zarqam and Chairman of the Board of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Panchenko Vladislav…
The State Welfare Organization (SWO) plans to establish 140 more social emergency centers in cities with a population of 50,000 and above, said Hossein Asad Beigi, head of the Social Emergency…
The 88-bed hospital in Ajabshir, East Azarbaijan Province, the construction of which began in 2010, is expected to be completed in the next fiscal year (starts March 2018) with an allocation of $…
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) announced that Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi will take part in a WHO-coordinated pilot implementation program that will make the…
UNESCO has approved Arasbaran's dossier on Tuesday, which was submitted in January, paving the way for Iran to implement measures to ensure the forest meets the UN agency's criteria for…
In spite of the rapidly deteriorating quality of soil in Iran, it has not received the attention it desperately needs.
Penguins and other species are facing extinction in South Africa, as the fish they feed on are harvested to make fishmeal to feed farmed salmon, chickens and other domestic livestock,…
Whereas waste recycling can help reduce costs and slash greenhouse gas emissions, a large portion of wastes produced in Tehran are dumped or buried unsystematically, the head of Tehran's office of…
The Department of Environment has once again called on voters to appoint environmentally-conscious candidates to city and village councils.
A wall of sand, dust, and rain enveloped Tehran on Monday evening, as the skies over the capital city suddenly turned dark. “Over 60 incidents were reported to Tehran Emergency Services such…
Vaccine coverage among Iranian children is close to 100%, according to the head of the Health Ministry’s Preventable Diseases Office. “Immunization programs in the country now reach out to 99% of…
A declining trend has been noted in the number of malaria cases in Iran in the past five years, and the figure which was 8,000 cases in 2012 came down to 100 cases in 2016, said Ahmad Raeesi, head…
The Department of Cultural and Social Harm Prevention at the judiciary is piloting a program in cooperation with the Education Ministry to raise awareness among school students on cultural and…
Children in America’s poorest communities have three times the risk of dying from child abuse before age 5 compared with children in the wealthiest neighborhoods, a new study finds.
Increasing the number of foreign students in Iran is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
Chancellor of Sharif University Mahmoud Fotouhi said on Sunday that the university had signed memoranda of understanding on scientific and educational cooperation with 12 Italian universities. He…
One of life’s greatest joys is having children but some couples have to go to great lengths to become parents due to problems of infertility and conception.
Most infertile couples can…
Egypt plans to promote religious, medical and luxury trips, and develop new markets in India and Eastern Europe, as it pushes to revive its vital tourism industry to pre-2011 levels within two…
Some 20 million foreign tourists traveled to Iran from the summer of 2013 (when President Hassan Rouhani took office) up to the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2016), the tourism deputy at…
The International Air Transport Association says 2016 saw a mammoth 40 million safe flights, but urged aviation stakeholders to reinforce their commitment to safety.
Louvre Museum’s relics from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome as well as several French artworks will be exhibited at the National Museum of Iran titled “Louvre in Tehran” for four months. …
Archeological excavations in Neyriz County, Fars Province, have revealed people settled in the region some 35,000 years ago, the archeologist heading the excavation said.
