Sara Safari is a mountain climber, professor, author and activist, championing education for girls in Nepal and around the world. She was born in Tehran in 1981, and began climbing a few years after she moved to the Los Angeles in 2002. She studied at UCLA and, after a stint working for large companies, she...Read More

The minister of labor, cooperatives and social welfare has called on the Planning and Budget Organization to allocate a total budget of 17 trillion rials (about $400 million) for insurance coverage of the villagers and nomads in the next Iranian cale  In a letter to Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, the head of the Plan and Budget...Read More

Diabetes is a common condition that affects around 3.7 million people in the UK. It’s caused by the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, express.co.uk wrote. Without enough insulin, the body struggles to convert sugar in the blood into useable energy. You could lower your risk of diabetes by making some diet or...Read More

 Amirkabir University of Technology and the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance scientific and research cooperation for the next three years, IRNA reported. Fatemeh Mohajerani, head of NODET, and Ahmad Motamedi, the university’s chancellor, inked the MOU during a meeting held on Tuesday. Conducting...Read More

 A symbolic ceremony for the working children in District 19 of Tehran was held on Tuesday to celebrate Yalda night, the longest night of the year which takes place on December 21. Yalda Night is annually celebrated on the last day of Azar (the last month of autumn in the Iranian calendar year) and before...Read More

A center offering full-time care and services to orphaned or abandoned girls has been inaugurated in Damghan, north-central Semnan province. The establishment of the center provide orphaned or abandoned girls with [good] living conditions, Mehr quoted Habibollah Masoudi-Farid, deputy director of the Welfare Organization as saying on Monday. Constructed by a philanthropist, the center is...Read More

The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends parents “avoid digital media use – except video chatting – in children younger than 18 to 24 months” Researchers have found ‘different patterns’ in brain scans among children who record heavy smart device and video game use, according to initial data from a major ongoing US study, AFP...Read More

Kobra Aqazari, Iranian representative in the First Ever Global Women in Media Conference, held in Karachi, Pakistan said on Monday.  The Iranian women, like any women in any other place face the men’s community constraints, however, they are active in all occupations including medicine, education and training, media, and other parts of the society, explained...Read More

A number of 105,000 girls, mostly residing in Tehran and the central cities of Iran, are confirmed bachelorettes, Ardeshir Garavand, designer of the center for social surveillance affiliated to the Interior Ministry said here on Sunday. Moreover, there are 36,000 confirmed bachelors in the country, IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. The active age...Read More

 Member of Majlis (Iranian Parliament), Fatemeh Zolqadr, here on Saturday called for formation of an association for women’s regional development, ISNA reported. Speaking on the sidelines of the second edition of ‘Speakers’ Conference’ which kicked off in Tehran on Saturday, Zolqadr stressed the need for increasing economic relations through coordination of parliamentarian delegations of six...Read More