In a meeting between Mohammadali Sobhan-Elahi, chancellor of Kharazmi University of Tehran, and Alaa Abdulhussein Abdulrasool, president of University of Baghdad (UoB) on Saturday, the two sides…
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Around 27 teachers of a high school in Miyanroud County, Mazandaran Province, raised $6,000 ($240 million rials) to help construct a small house for the family of a 17-year-old student. The boy’s…
Over 137,000 single girls in the country are breadwinners for their families, said Habibollah Masoudi-Farid, deputy for social affairs at the State Welfare Organization. “There are more than 2.5…
The aim of the national plan on cancer screening is two-fold: primary and secondary prevention. Under the former, a set of interventions that keep symptoms at bay are provided and include health…
The Urmia Lake Restoration Program was set to receive nearly half of its budget for the current Iranian year on Saturday, an official with the program said.
Tehran air quality has not seen any improvement despite the launch of the Low Emission Zone scheme.
Vahid Hosseini, director of Tehran's Air Quality Control Company, maintains that such…
Tehran's air quality, which deteriorated on Saturday following a short respite on Friday, is expected to last until Monday morning. Despite wind speed picking up, it will not be enough to have an…
China will slap a total ban on the domestic ivory trade within a year, the government announced on Friday, shutting the door to the world's biggest end-market for poached ivory.
Madrid’s City Hall has unveiled plans to boost its green credentials and set up gardens on the rooftops of buses and bus stops.
Despite alarming pollution levels, Delhi has seen a surge in private vehicles, while public transport is in decline, environmentalists have warned.
They quoted government figures showing…
The Vice Presidency for Women and Family Affairs will prioritize ways to curb social harm among women in its agenda for the next fiscal year that begins in March 2017, Vice President Shahindokht…
Six students were injured when the walls of an old primary school building in Sadat Abad village located in Semirom County, Isfahan Province, collapsed and the children were trapped under the…
The Food and Drug Administration has imported new equipment that can detect 426 different types of pesticide residue in agricultural products, said Hossein Rastegar, head of the FDA’s research…
Given that Facebook has 1.79 billion monthly active users, there is no doubt that it is a popular social platform. The irony of Facebook - a platform designed to make us more sociable - is that…
The government’s determination to help improve dental services has seen unprecedented measures in oral healthcare over the past two years.
Under the 2014 Health Reform Plan, “major steps…
The State Welfare Organization has devised a door-to-door program to identify and create an accurate database on addicts in the country, which will be implemented from the next Iranian year…
Three new bus routes will become operational in District 18 of Tehran in southwest of the capital soon, said Maziar Hosseini, deputy mayor for traffic and transport affairs. “Expanding the public…
The First National Congress of Successful Iranian Women next month will discuss the role of women “as half of the population in social and economic development,” said Fatemeh Daneshvar, head of…
An Iranian teacher is earning worldwide applause on social media for going the extra mile. The caption of a photo that has gone viral since last week explains that the young man stops by every day…
Japan will lend a hand to restore the ruins of Persepolis, one of Iran's most famous world heritage sites.
Persepolis is threatened by land subsidence due to depleting groundwater resources…
Iran has seen an 11.5% increase in American visitors year-on-year, as of September 2016, according to the US National Travel and Tourism Office's latest data.
The conflict zone information repository created a year ago in the aftermath of the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Ukraine has come under criticism by airlines for what the…
The agency promoting the UK worldwide as a holiday destination faces a £2.5 million cut in its budget because of the fall in the pound’s value following the vote for Brexit.
VisitBritain’s…
In spite of all the challenges facing Iran's travel sector, medical tourism has been one of the most profitable and stable branches, thanks to the quality medical services that draws health…
Automated ticket machines have been set up at over 100 subway stations across Tehran in a move to upgrade subway services.
“Around 500 automated ticket machines have been installed at…
