The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare have signed a memorandum of understanding aiming to bring out-of-school children back to school. The memorandum of understanding will pave the way for future steps, ISNA news agency quoted Education Minister Mohammad Bat’haei as saying on Sunday. He made the remarks over...Read More

Specks of calcium in the heart’s artery walls could signal early risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in men from South Asian countries, including India, and may help develop treatment methods, researchers say. According to the team from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), people from South Asia are known to have a high chance of...Read More

 A work by 96-year-old Iranian female artist Monir Farmanfarmaian was hammered at 40 billion rials at the 10th Tehran Auction on Friday, setting a record high among 113 other artworks presented to Iran’s major art market. The Tehran Auction, conceived in June 2012, is described by the organizers as a national endeavor to fulfill the...Read More

 Iran has the largest store of cord blood samples in Middle East by having collected 110,000 samples, announced the Managing Director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology. A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Cord blood contains hematopoietic stem cells and are currently used to treat...Read More

A groundbreaking set of studies has found that blocking certain receptors in the brain leads to the growth of remarkably strong bones. Could a new osteoporosis treatment be on the horizon? Primarily a disease of old age, osteoporosis can cause bones to become gradually weaker. Over time, bones become so porous that minor impacts —...Read More

Number of foreign tourists to the northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan has increased 10 percent year-on-year since March 21, 2018, said the director general of the provincial Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Department on Thursday. Morteza Abdar added, “According to the latest statistics, the number of foreign tourists who have visited the province since...Read More

The cast and crew members of “Mystery of Ganjur”, a play on stage at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), plan to mark on Saturday 100 years since early modern children’s theatrical performances were staged by Jabbar Baghcheban in Iran. Veteran children’s theater experts, including Davud Kianian, Hassan Dadashgar and...Read More

 Iranian director Ronak Jafari’s short film “Double” will go on screen at the 8th edition of the Irvine Film Festival, which will be held in Costa Mesa, California from March 22 to 28. The film is about Pegah, a young woman with a red raincoat who is in an eerie marsh in the middle of...Read More

 According to a report released by the Measuring Information Society of Iran at the Information Technology Organization, 64 percent of Iranians above six years are internet users. A survey was conducted at urban and rural areas during winter season of the Iranian calendar year 1396 (ended March 20, 2018) by the Statistical Center of Iran....Read More

To answer this question about wearing Hijab, we should first understand why God has sent down religion to man and why He orders man what to do and what to avoid. Imagine a person who invents an electronic device, for example, a computer; he knows how the computer should be used to give the best outcome....Read More