The Tehran Municipality’s (TM) project displaying costly environmental posters on billboards across the city has drawn skepticism in social media networks with many citizens criticizing the TM’s…
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Global spending on prescription medicines will reach nearly $1.5 trillion by 2021, according to a forecast by Quintiles IMS Holding released on Tuesday.
That figure, based on wholesale…
In 2015, a budget of $500 million (1,500 billion rials) was allocated from the National Development Fund to improve access to piped drinking water in villages and deprived areas, said Seyed…
In 2002, the Majlis (parliament) passed a law that permitted surrogacy for infertile married couples and it was approved by the Guardian Council.
Surrogate mothers should receive $7000 (250…
Children under the age of three should not use digital devices such as mobile phones or tablets, says a cyberspace researcher.
“Cone cells, one of the three types of photoreceptor cells in…
More than 50% of prisoners, 60% of thefts, and 50% of divorces in the country are due to drugs and the problem of substance abuse, said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli.
A report released by the Iran Legal Medicine Organization (ILMO) said that during the first seven months of the current year (started March 20), the death toll in traffic accidents decreased by 2.…
Nourkaram Zarei, the pilot of the helicopter which crashed on Tuesday into Chitgar Lake located in northwestern Tehran (District 12 of Tehran Municipality), succumbed to his injuries in hospital…
The buffer zones of Naqsh-e-Jahan Square, Qehi Village and Monar Jonban monuments plus their surrounding landmarks have been demarcated in Isfahan Province.
Just a few weeks ahead of launching the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, which will be celebrated throughout 2017, the UN World Tourism Organization underlined in Cancun…
Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization is placing greater focus on the standardization of lodging facilities to ensure a comfortable stay for the disabled and has initiated…
British tourism company Thomas Cook said it would pay £55.8 million ($71 million) to take full control of a jointly owned network of 764 travel shops in Britain, which it had run with partner The…
The government has earmarked a 12% increase in the tourism authority’s funding in its proposed budget bill for the next fiscal year that starts on March 21, 2017.
President Hassan Rouhani’s…
TourMega, a travel startup based in Silicon Valley, has launched the first search engine dedicated to tours and activities around the world, including Iran.
The startup features more than…
The first training center for rescue dogs was established 19 years ago in the country. At the time there were only six trainers and six dogs at the center.
South Korea’s KBNP Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute (RVSRI) for joint production of Newcastle Vaccine.
December 2 is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
A charity organization is offering free courses on acquiring work skills as well as job opportunities for the disabled in Tehran.
The Ra’ad al-Ghadir Charity Organization, which was…
The State Welfare Organization’s top priority is to improve urban accessibility for the disabled, said its head Anoushiravan Mohseni Bandpei.
Explosion of a land mine, a remnant of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in a rural area in Qasr-e Shirin County in Kermanshah Province, injured one person on Saturday. “The man was driving his tractor…
New Zealand education institutions stand to benefit following the signing of an education cooperation agreement in Iran on Sunday, according to Trade Minister Todd McClay.
McClay is leading…
Following the death of a patient after receiving intravenous penicillin in Kashan city in Isfahan Province, the Food and Drug Administration has ordered an enquiry. “The medicine under question,…
A team from the University of Melbourne has developed a world-first vaccine for gum disease. The vaccine will eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, the need for surgery and antibiotics for…
Coral across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most devastating die-off on record, a new report says in just nine months, bleaching caused by warmer water has killed around 67% of…
Some of the biggest urban-pollution headlines of the past few years have not come from likely suspects like Beijing and New Delhi, but rather once-pristine European cities, namely Paris, Athens…
