Close to 4.33 million tons of agro products worth nearly $4.13 billion were exported from Iran during the nine months to December 20, registering a 5.3% increase in value, the deputy agriculture…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index shed 368 points or 0.5% during the week that ended January 11 to end at 78,622.

IFX, the over-the-counter Iran Fara Bourse’s benchmark, lost 14.7 points…

Close to 2 million tons of wastes were recycled in Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2015-16) to produce nearly 1.3 million tons of polymers and plastic products, the head of Iran Recycling…

An Airbus A321 airliner landed in Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Thursday 14:46 p.m. A ceremony was held to mark the first jet Iran received as part of a total of 200 planes the country has ordered…

Air pollution costs Iran about $20 billion annually, which can be used to purchase 20,000 subway cars or establish 140 power plants, 60 stadiums with a 50,000-seat capacity and 900 60-hectare…

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases (33%), stroke (9.4%) and cancers (8%) have been the top major killers in the country during the past decade.

Although…

Iranian researchers have created a kit for consumers to detect adulteration in honey. “A major concern for consumers is quality assurance of honey,” said Abbas Ebrahimi, the project manager, Mehr…

Sedentary types face the risk of developing dementia like those who are genetically predisposed to it, if they don’t exercise. Researchers from McMaster University, Canada, said carriers of a…

If a proposal introduced by the Russian Health Ministry is adopted, Moscow will ban the sale of cigarettes to people born in 2015 and after.

Tobacco kills about six million people globally…

A program for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis conceived by the Health Ministry will be piloted in the upcoming fiscal year that starts in March.

The Karaj-Chalus Road will be closed from 9 pm to 5 am from Saturdays till Tuesdays till the end of the current year on March 20, said Colonel Reza Akbari, traffic police chief of Alborz Province…

With an aim to improve the quality of psychiatric clinical care in the country, 1,000 new beds for psychiatric wards will be inaugurated today (January 14) across the country.  The…

Since the beginning of the current school year (started September 23), more than 1.2 million first graders underwent health screening, of whom 37% were found to have different types of dental…

Occupancy rates in most Iranian hotels have seen a 10% decline since the beginning of the current Iranian year (started March 20, 2016) compared with the same period of previous year.

Iran’s revenues from medical tourism have more than doubled over the last 12 months, according to the vice president of the Association for Development of Medical Tourism Services.

The number of visitors to Spain hit a new record in 2016, the government said on Thursday.

It was the fourth consecutive record year with numbers boosted by security concerns in some other…

Azerbaijan has started issuing e-visas for Iranian nationals in the latest step taken by either country to develop bilateral tourism ties. “The move aims to facilitate visa procedures for our…

The establishment of a national travel fund can help make traveling more affordable for families that may otherwise be unable to travel, the director of the Association of Air Transport and…

Global demand for air travel rose 7.6% in November, the strongest rate for nine months, with European traffic rebounding, the International Air Transport Association reported last week.

The official portal of Measuring Information Society (MIS) of Iran has released data indicating that some 65% of Iranian Internet users are active on social media.

It did not give the size…

The fourth edition of Iran Web Festival will begin in a few weeks with several websites and e-commerce companies vying for the prize of best website or app of the year.

Organizers of the…

Nintendo will launch the Switch, its first new game console in about four years, on March 3 for $299.99 in the United States and 29,980 yen in Japan, the video game maker announced on January 13.…

Registration for the new cycle of startups at Avatech accelerator started on January 9.  

Telegram Messenger has released the version 1.0 update of its universal desktop application, Telegram Desktop. The app had been available for a while but this is the first stable release and it…

Ride-hailing service Uber signed an agreement with Dubai’s transport authorities on Wednesday to become fully regulated after a series of clashes over pricing and availability.