The number of female village chiefs in the country has increased 10-fold since they were first elected 20 years ago.
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Each day, two infants are abandoned on the streets of Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province because their parents cannot afford to take care of them, and “nearly 50-60 babies are handed…
Avian influenza has spread to five more provinces in the country after being reported in several bird farms in Tehran two weeks ago. The highly pathogenic H5N8 strain has been detected in Qom,…
The Tehran Municipality (TM) has announced several times in the past few years that it has plans to prevent ragpickers from salvaging waste from trash bins across the capital. However, so far no…
Lower earnings, less secure employment, longer periods of ill-health and greater caring responsibilities leave women more at risk of financial difficulties than men, a comprehensive lifetime study…
The Department of Environment is set to announce its final verdict on a controversial scheme to turn Ashouradeh, the only Iranian island in the Caspian Sea, into a tourist resort by the end of the…
The Energy Ministry will send its proposal to fine households with high water consumption to the Majlis to encourage more judicious use of the precious resource and help mitigate the effects of…
China is set to announce when it will close its legal ivory carving factories, 18 months after pledging to act. Last year, the world’s largest market for both legal and illegal ivory said it would…
All the provincial offices of the Department of Environment have stopped issuing bird hunting licenses to prevent a potential outbreak of avian influenza (or bird flu), a senior environment…
Donald Trump's incoming presidency will not be kind to climate change science and that's making both scientists and government divisions nervous—to the point where they're taking unusually drastic…
A driver guilty of violating traffic laws in Bandar Abbas in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province was sentenced to marking road lanes by the judge as punishment.
College students are carrying more than a diploma across the stage at graduation. They’re lugging an extra 10 pounds gained over their college years, on average, along with the associated health…
Almost 70% of all food products in the country have ‘traffic light’ labels issued by the Food and Drug Administration.
The National Healthy Food Pyramid with the latest revisions compiled by the Nutrition Office of the Health Ministry has been published. “The pyramid along with guidelines on healthy regimens and…
More than 400,000 children are at risk of starvation in Yemen, with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF.
Nearly 12 million Iranians up to the age of 35 years are single, said Leila Boroujerdi, head of the Special Women and Youth Committee (affiliated to the Expediency Council), on the sidelines of…
Black lung disease is prevalent in cities with high rate of air pollution like Tehran, said Dr Hamid Sohrabpour, pulmonary disease specialist. Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), also known as…
Data from street addicts rounded up in Tehran during the first three months of the current fiscal (began in March), challenges the notion that substance abuse afflicts certain sections of the…
On December 11, the Education Ministry, UNESCO’s Tehran Cluster Office, the UNICEF Country Office and the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, jointly organized a high-level National…
President of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) Dr. Hugh R. Taylor is in Tehran to attend the 26th Annual Congress of the Iranian Society of Ophthalmology.
“It is the first…
Over the past 15 days, a total of 1.5 tons of illicit drugs were seized in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, said Border Police Commander General Saeed Komeili.
“During…
A hospital for respiratory care with 64 beds is under construction in Zabol, Sistan-Baluchistan Province and will become operational in the first half of the next fiscal year (starts March 21,…
The new Hossein Abad subway station located on Tehran Metro Line 3 (between Heravi and Nobonyad stations in district four of Tehran Municipality) was inaugurated on Monday. According to Tehran…
Some 24% of Iranian households have no working members, said the head of the Special Women and Youth Committee (affiliated to the Expediency Council).
Egg donation for assisted reproduction treatment, particularly in IVF (in vitro fertilization) technology, has become a big business in the country for brokers in the field.
