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[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]XYZ (Xtremely Young Zoroastrians) is a non-profit organisation that aims at making this world a better place for the underprivileged and spreading social awareness and skills amongst the youth. ‘Stepping Forward’ is a Shoe Collection Drive for the underprivileged. Media Partner Parsi Times catches up with XYZ Founder, Hoshaang Gotla, who explains this…
With diabetes rapidly growing into a health epidemic across India and within the community, Lion Daara Patel (Chairperson for Diabetes, Multiple Council District 3231, Lions Clubs International) has been spearheading a Diabetes Awareness Program, which includes Free Diabetes Detection Camp and Awareness program across many places in and around Mumbai. A free mega diabetes detection…
With the BCCI having announced that IPL 2020 will be held in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah from, September 19 to November 10, it is now important that cricket-fans are provided a safe, secure and Covid19-proof 13th edition of the game. For the same, BCCI has received an offer from Tata Medical and Diagnostics (TMD), the…
A newly discovered rock-carving (petroglyph) in West Iran could have a link to ‘Mithraism’, a prehistorical religion inspired by the Iranian worship of Zoroastrian god, Mithra. While some Iranian archaeologists suggest the carving was created by a Mithra follower as it depicts the portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in…
When the very first Iranshah Udvada Utsav was held in December 2015, Australia was awarded the host nation for the 11th (Adult) World Zoroastrian Congress for the year 2018, as decided at the Global Working Group meet. Brandishing the motto, ‘Together Towards Tomorrow’, four days, dated 1st to 4th June, 2018, will celebrate the coming…
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has awarded the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences to Harvard Professor, Mahzarin Rustum Banaji for her work in furthering the understanding of ‘Implicit Social Cognition’. Praising her contributions, an official statement NAS stated, “Her research has helped establish and quantify the role that unconscious processes play in…