More than 2,000 new schools are needed before the end of the Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2017-22) to cater to the growing student population, Deputy Education Minister Mohammad-…
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An earthquake measuring 5.0 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Hojdak city in Ravar County of the southeastern Kerman Province early Wednesday at 4:38 am. No casualties were reported until…
Tehran is expected to experience 30% increase in traffic as soon as schools and universities reopen after the 3-month summer holidays on September 23, Tehran’s police chief, Brigadier Hossein…
As part of the Health Ministry’s health screening program for the new academic year (starts September 23), approximately 4.5 million students including first graders and students in the fourth,…
An estimated 70,000 inmates received vocational training and 21,000 were employed inside prisons during the last calendar year that ended in March, according to the general director of the…
The total number of Japanese people aged 90 and older has topped 2 million for the first time, with a record 7.7 million people aged 65 and older earning wages in some fashion, according to the…
Researchers suggest that sodium - which we commonly ingest through salt, or sodium chloride - could increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults.
Type 2…
Based on a recent decision by the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade, price stickers will be eliminated from some consumer products, starting from the beginning of autumn on September 23. The…
The Interior Ministry’s office for social affairs has launched a national database for panhandlers to help authorities in their plans to address the unacceptable phenomenon, the ministry’s…
There are more than 300 knowledge-based companies in Iran in the area of biotechnology and some export their products, secretary of Iran’s Biotechnology Development Committee, Mostafa Qane’i…
A group of 3,000 children participated in creating a two-kilometer long painting, as part of a program organized by District 11 municipality in Tehran’s Razi Park on Monday. The program, with…
More than 3,000 homeless addicts were picked up and sent to rehab centers across Tehran Province as part of the latest police operation which ran from July 20 to August 6, director general of…
First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri called for concerted effort by branches of the state and government to find workable solutions to social harms.
“Social issues in the country have…
The restoration of water canals of Pasargadae Garden in Fars Province is a top priority of cultural heritage officials, the head of Pasargadae World Heritage Base said. The first…
About 80 billion rials ($2.1 million) worth of handicrafts were sold and ordered at the 28th national exhibition that was held on 23-29 August in Tehran, showing a tenfold increase from 8…
In response to recent criticisms leveled at Omid Entrepreneurship Fund for refusing to finance ecotourism projects in Ilam Province, officials of the fund declared that loans were refused…
After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11% of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United…
Demographics in and from the developed world was, and is, indicative of the pattern of living and dying alone. The same is true, but to a much lesser degree, in the orient where family values…
Disorganized and unwarranted construction of residential towers in Tehran’s District 22 on the western flank has raised renewed concerns in recent years, particularly regarding their ill effects…
The Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing recently warned against the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (coronavirus) in Saudi…
An estimated 48% of Iranian students do not brush their teeth daily and 60% do not drink milk on a daily basis, the Health Ministry spokesperson, Iraj Harirchi, said on Monday.
“A…
Philanthropists donated 690 billion rials ($17.7 million) to help needy students as part of the first phase of a charity festival held by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee On September 14-15.…
Close to 1.1 million students have been enrolled in schools across Tehran Province at all grades for the new academic year (starting September 23), according to director general of the Education…
The State Welfare Organization currently has 281 day-care centers for the elderly across the country, providing support services to 14,411 senior citizens, an official with SWO’s elderly…
China’s capital Beijing plans to ban all diesel trucks from the city with an emission standard of "National 3" in two years. In the short run, there will be a partial ban on these trucks, from 6…
