The private sector can help improve waste management in Iran, but authorities have so far failed to exploit their full potential, according to a senior official at the Department of Environment.…
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The implementation of the Low Emission Zone Plan in Iran, which was ratified in August 2015 by the High Council for Coordination of Urban Traffic, is still hostage to the launch of a centralized…
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The Great Barrier Reef will be a “dead ecosystem” in 20 years if Australia does nothing to address its greenhouse gas emissions.
That’s according to the authors of a Climate Council report…
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The Cabinet has passed a bill to amend the bylaw on Education Regulations for Foreign Nationals that will facilitate the enrollment, in particular of refugees, in Iranian schools. The bylaw was…
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The annual budget of the Education Ministry has doubled over the past three years, President Hassan Rouhani said in Tehran on Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization has warned Iran about the risks of cholera outbreak due to its geographical proximity to two main sources of the epidemic, Pakistan to the east and Iraq in the west…
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A 217-bed hospital opened on Thursday in Amol, Mazandaran Province, on the occasion of Eid-Al-Mab’ath, which marks the anniversary of the appointment of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to prophethood.
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Sexual health clinics will be launched in 17 provinces of the country in the near future, said Mohammad Eslami, head of the Family Health Department at the Health Ministry. “We have proposed a…
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Siemens Healthcare and Tehran University of Medical Sciences will work together in the area of brain disorders, and a MoU was signed by the Brain Mapping Lab of TUMS and Siemens Healthcare in…
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The US government on Thursday took wide-ranging steps to crack down for the first time on e-cigarettes and cigars, growing in popularity among teens, and banned sales to anyone under age 18 in…
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A German team of oncology specialists will offer free services to brain tumor patients in cooperation with Iranian experts May 15-23 at Mashhad’s Specialized Razavi Hospital in Khorasan Razavi…
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The number of American visitors to Cuba has nearly doubled this year as the island races to build hotels and expand Havana airport to keep up with booming demand.
Tourism has taken off…
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One cannot be faulted for not knowing about Iran’s failed attempt at registering a second geopark on UNESCO’s Global Geopark’s Network five years ago; the move did not receive much coverage at the…
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A historical water reservoir (ab anbar in Persian) has been discovered in Shiraz, Fars Province, according to deputy head of the provincial office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and…
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The Republic of Serbia and Iran’s Khuzestan Province have agreed to create the conditions for the exchange of tourists, according to Muhammad Ali Khalili, the tourism deputy at the provincial…
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Global air-passenger traffic rose by 5.3% year on year in March as measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs), the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported.
Capacity…
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As part of medical education reforms, the Health Ministry increased the capacity of all medical universities by 30% in the Iranian year that ended on March 19, and allotted the additional seats…
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Once in a while we may hear of some unpalatable news that a teacher has used corporal punishment or physical violence on a student, but the truth of the matter is that the large number of teachers…
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Women who are vaccinated against flu during pregnancy may significantly reduce the risk of their baby contracting the virus in their first 6 months of life, suggests a new study published in the…
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Parents staged the first ever “kids’ strike” on Tuesday (May 3) in the UK in protest at the “shambolic testing regime” of SATs.
Nearly 40,000 people have signed up in support of the action…
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The number of traffic cameras in the capital is set to increase this year from the current 1,300, said head of Tehran’s traffic police Brigadier General Teymour Hosseini. “The surveillance cameras…
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The Second International Biennial Oncology Conference organized by the Iranian Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Society (IPHOS) and the German Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (GPOH…
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The drafting process of the National Document on the Rights of Child is completed and finalized, announced Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi.
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In a meeting between Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi and his South Korean counterpart Chung Chin-youb on Tuesday, both sides stressed the need to expand bilateral cooperation in the…
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The share of domestic production in the medicine market has increased to 70% from 60% over the past two years, said Rasoul Dinarvand, head of the Food and Drug Administration.
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