India’s Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has called for mandatory tests to determine the sex of an unborn child in a bid to counter high levels of female feticide, sparking…
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The Department of Environment is preparing a scheme that aims to classify various industrial sectors across Tehran Province under a three-colored scheme depending on the amount of pollutants they…
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Due to spiking levels of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, global warming will possibly unleash devastating and extreme flooding in the coming years. Scientists say it will be similar to the…
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Iran’s top environmental official could not help but take a swipe at the Oil Ministry and their apparent disregard for the environment.
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In an effort to help Iraq combat dust storms and curb its impact on Iran, the provincial office of the Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization is planning to export a million saplings…
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Calling a food healthy can actually put people off eating it, researchers have warned.
Instead, scientists found people respond better to healthy symbols, CBS News reported.
Symbols…
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The Tehran City Council (TCC) is planning to reverse an order of the Tehran Municipality that made the ‘17 Shahrivar Street’ a car-free zone two years ago.
One of the most important…
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According to the latest reports by the Statistical Center of Iran, 84.7% of Iranians are literate.
The highest rate of literacy is in Tehran Province where 90.4% of the population is…
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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai will urge world leaders to set aside $1.4 billion this year toward educating Syrian refugee children.
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Researchers at Islamic Azad University have developed bioadaptive polymers modified with iron nanoparticles that help treat breast cancer with the least damage to unaffected tissues. Chemotherapy…
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A disease linked to the Zika virus in Latin America poses a global public health emergency requiring a united response, says the World Health Organization.
Experts are worried that the…
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Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi and the Director of the Syrian Commission for Family and Population Affairs, Hadeel Al-Asmar, in a recent meeting discussed…
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A total of 22 new medical items were recently produced at the research center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, said Masoud Younesian, research deputy head of the university. “Seven of the…
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In the first ten months of the current Iranian year (ends March 19), more than 72,000 marriages were registered in the country, said Susan Bastani, deputy for parliamentary affairs at the Vice-…
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The director of the National Land and Housing Organization has expressed willingness to help Iran meet its tourism potential.
“We have no problem with changing land use in an area brimming…
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A British tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant on the Thai tourist island of Koh Samui, police said Tuesday, the latest deadly attack by animals used to entertain holidaymakers.
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Travelers from Oman can soon take a visa-free ferry run to Iran as the first ferry service linking both countries will run from Khasab in Oman to Qeshm Island.
The ferry is expected to be…
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand has pushed to expand foreign tourist arrivals from Iran and Oman, following a recent government delegation to the Middle Eastern countries.
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Iran is looking to attract between one and two million tourists from Russia every year by entering into a visa-free agreement with the country.
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The Iranian Embassy in Kabul has announced that its consulates in Afghanistan would register the marriages of Iranian women with Afghan men.
In a statement, the embassy asked Afghans…
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Would you call an individual with depression “mentally ill” or a “person with a mental illness”? According to a new study, the label one gives a person with such an illness can influence how they…
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Mali’s elephants, one of just two remaining desert herds in the world, will be gone in three years unless the government does more to protect them, a conservation group said on Thursday.
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Oslo’s main waste incinerator began the world’s first experiment to capture carbon dioxide from the fumes of burning rubbish last week, hoping to develop technology to enlist the world’s trash in…
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Isfahan is hosting the 2016 World Wetlands Day on Tuesday in the city of Varzaneh, to the east of provincial capital and in the vicinity of Gavkhouni Wetland.
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A zebra-like horse known as a ‘quagga’ that disappeared off the face of the earth in the 1880 could once-again roam the plains of Africa after a 30-year project by South African scientists. A…
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