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…

Finding love and enjoying good mental health are by far the most important keys to a happy life, a study by the London School of Economics (LSE) has found.

Both factors were found to be…

Following the outbreak of a dangerous strain of avian influenza in seven provinces, Iran Veterinary Organization released a biosafety directive on Tuesday calling on all poultry farm owners to…

An earthquake measuring 4.9 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Minudasht city in Golestan Province, early Wednesday. According to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor…

School holiday breaks vary throughout the world. Iran is one of the countries with the highest number of school holidays per year (125 days). In other words, Iranian schools work only two-thirds…

About 9% of the Health Ministry’s budget of $ 2.3 billion goes on public sanitation and hygiene under the 2014 Health Reform Plan, said Ali Akbar Sayyari, deputy minister for health and hygiene. “…

Over 10 tons of illicit drugs were seized over the past two weeks across the country, said deputy head of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters Assadollah Hadinejad, on Wednesday.

“Opium…

The Food and Drug Organization has issued a permit to set up a production line for opium-based medicines in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province, said FDA head Rasoul Dinarvand, on Tuesday…

The maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the country is less than 20 deaths per 100,000 live births at present, while the figure was 27 in 2010, said Safiyeh Shahriari, a board member of the Family…

Iran’s environmental scene has witnessed both good and bad developments in 2016.

Wildfires raging through forests in summer, the persistent air pollution choking metropolises and dust…

The cheetah’s dramatic decline has prompted calls for the animal’s status to be downgraded from “vulnerable” to “endangered” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of…

Despite the claims of officials about the implementation of Low Emission Zone, the scheme has not yet entered the phase where it can alleviate Tehran's air pollution crisis.  

It has…

The parliament has opposed the controversial plan to transfer water from Caspian Sea to the drought-hit central plateau after long debates over the issue. Critics have long argued that pumping…

Belarusian bus builder Belkommunmash plans to sell all-electric buses to Tehran, according to a report from that country on December 26.

The development comes as that country’s deputy prime…

The 2017 Suzuki Swift has been revealed in Japan ahead of a European debut in Geneva featuring updated styling and a hybrid drivetrain option.

The Swift’s styling has evolved rather than…

Amid a crowd of auto enthusiasts and local officials, the Seventh International Kerman Auto Show opened on Tuesday with one top carmaker unveiling two new models.

The exhibition in the…

Iran’s second largest auto manufacturer released its sales and production report for the first nine months of the current fiscal year that started in March and said sales had increased month-on-…

Renault’s local import representative, Negin Khodro, officially opened their new showroom in  Aghdasieh district in northern Tehran on December 26, Asbe Bokhar, local automotive website…

Syrian Armed Forces killed more than 25 terrorists belonging to the self-styled Islamic State militant group west of Palmyra in Homs on Monday.

A military source also told SANA that this…

An Ankara court has ordered a temporary broadcast ban on media coverage of the news related to the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov.

According to judicial sources…

The Tu-154’s main flight data recorder was found at a depth of 17 meters, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.

The ministry added that five more fragments of the crashed plane have been located…

Dozens of politicians have split from South Korea’s ruling party over the corruption scandal involving impeached President Park Geun-hye.

Their move on Tuesday could shape presidential…

The steam unit of Bandar Genaveh Combined Cycle Power Plant with an output capacity of 160 megawatts is expected to go on stream on Thursday in a ceremony attended by Hamid Chitchian, the energy…

Bahar Azadi gold coin sold for 11.8 million rials ($284.3) on Tuesday, up by 2.6% at 300,000 rials from the previous day.

The US dollar’s exchange rate also climbed 500 rials, reaching 41,…

The Majlis Economic Commission is to hold a meeting with Economy Minister Ali Tayyebnia and Central Bank of Iran Governor Valiollah Seif to discuss the recent upheavals in the Iranian forex market…