A 17-year-old Iranian boy who had raped and killed a 6-year-old Afghan girl, Setayesh Qoreishi, in Varamin, southeast of Tehran in April, was sentenced to death and payment of blood money, said…
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In the past decade, 70 adult day care centers were established across the capital Tehran under the supervision of the State Welfare Organization.
PeopleThe Low Emission Zones (LEZ) scheme that was launched on September 21 to help curb air pollution ahead of the cold seasons has been put on hold after less than a week since it took off. Under the…
PeopleIran’s Sharif University of Technology and Curtin University of Australia have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost cooperation in education and research. The MoU was signed on Monday in…
PeopleWith the start of autumn and the malaria outbreak season in the southern Bushehr Province, the disease surveillance and elimination program for malaria has been initiated among the high risk…
PeopleMahak, the society to support children suffering from cancer, and Samsung, the South Korean multinational conglomerate in electronics and appliances, have come together in a philanthropic…
PeopleThe Iranian government on Sunday allocated 3 trillion rials ($88 million) to the Urmia Lake Restoration Program for the remainder of the current Iranian year that ends on March 20, 2017.
PeopleMuseums across Iran will not charge any entrance fee today, with the exception of foreign group tours, in commemoration of World Tourism Day.
PeopleThe 3rd Iran-China Women’s Conference was held September 19-23 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province, an autonomous territory in northwest China with a large Muslim population.
PeopleA group of 40 investors managing $1.25 trillion in assets have launched a campaign to encourage 16 global food companies to change the way they source protein for their products to help reduce…
PeopleA total of 117 workers of a garment factory in Vietnam have been confirmed to have contracted flu virus H1N1, local media reported Monday. Of the 117 workers of Vinatex Kien Giang factory in Kien…
PeopleOver 1,000 local and foreign researchers and scientists have expressed interest in attending the first Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) Congress in Tehran, according to…
PeopleThe honorary award of the First World Muslim Women Summit and Exhibition in Malaysia was conferred on world-famous neurologist Professor Majid Samii.
PeopleThe rate of road accidents normally peaks in the last month of summer. This year, 810 people lost their lives in September, the last month of the summer holiday season, and 18,600 people were…
PeopleIran’s first theme park in Tehran is beset with delays.
‘Hezaro Yek Shahr’ (literally 1,001 cities), envisaged as the largest and the most modern tourist destination in the country, is…
PeopleEvery year, the World Happiness Report surveys populations from various countries in search of the nation that has the happiest people. This year’s topper is Denmark, followed closely by…
PeopleA program to provide 45,000 elderly women with training in self-management, social skills, healthy nutrition and physical exercises is underway in 10 provinces of the country, said Anoushiravan…
PeopleFast food consumption rate has increased significantly in the country over the last decades. According to figures released by the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iranians spend $3.1 billion…
PeopleThe capacity of Tehran’s public transportation system was increased to accommodate 300,000 more people as the new school year began on September 21.
PeopleIran Crisis Management Organization (CMO) was granted a medal for partnership in relief and rescue operations from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situation at the end of the Navy Maneuver of…
PeopleThere are 1.2 million illiterate people in the country under the age of 50, said Head of Literacy Movement Organization Ali Baqerzadeh. “There are also 11 million undereducated adults,” he said…
PeopleTraffic lights in Tehran will be equipped with an audio signal system to facilitate the visually impaired, said CEO of Tehran Municipality’s Traffic Control Company. “So far, traffic lights at 100…
PeopleMen who suffer from anxiety are more than twice as likely to die from cancer than those who do not, a major new study has found.
A survey of nearly 16,000 people over 15 years found that…
PeopleAlthough egg-freezing has been an option for some time, most childless women still lack knowledge about the costs and viability of freezing their eggs to preserve their fertility, suggests a study…
PeopleThe Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare has devised plans including insurance coverage for 15,000 foreign workers in Iran.
Labor Minister Ali Rabiei says nearly two million…
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