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Jamshedpur-based J H Tarapore School, recently won the Gold award, in ‘The School Eduexcellence Awards – 2021’, in the category of ‘Co-Scholastic Activities’. The J H Tarapore School was inaugurated in 2002, in honour of J H Tarapore, the founder of Tarapore & Co., with the aim of imparting quality education to Jamshedpur’s youth and…
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4th September, 2022 will go down in history as one of the community’s darkest black letter days, as it marked the fateful and sudden, untimely demise of Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, the scion of the global construction giant – Shapoorji Pallonji, former Chairman of Tata Sons, and a national treasure, a business visionary with a heart…
WZO Trusts Shares COVID-19 Relief & Rehabilitation Update (30 September, 2020)
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Nazneen Engineer Conferred Doctorate from SOAS, London
On 24th July, 2019, Nazneen Engineer was conferred with a PhD from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), as a “Postdoctoral Researcher at the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.” Her interest in Zoroastrian Studies grew after she attended the December 2007 World Zoroastrian Youth Congress in Australia, inspiring her to pursue…
Dinyar Contractor Felicitated With Padma Shri Award
Our Community’s legendary theatre personality and Bollywood actor, the icon of Parsi theatre, Dinyar Contractor was awarded one of the nation’s highest honours, the prestigious Padma Shri Award for 2019, by the Government of India. The award was announced on the eve of Republic Day in recognition of his comprehensive contribution to Parsi and Gujarati…