Industrialist, philanthropist and former Chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group, Ratan Tata, recently shared a picture of him with a Tata Indica on social media, marking 25 years of its launch. Sharing a nostalgic message, he wrote, “25 years ago, the launching of the Tata Indica was the birth of India’s indigenous passenger car…
Maneckji Cooper Education Trust School celebrated its Annual Day on 27th January, 2023, for students of Nursery to Std. II (Foundational Level), with the theme, ‘The Old And The New’, based on unconditional love, kindness, patience, humour, comfort and lessons in life passed from the old generation to the new.
On 30th January, 2023, Iranian Zoroastrians gathered in numbers to celebrate the importance of light, fire, and energy in a traditional mid-winter festival, passed down from generation to generation for millennia, namely Jashn-e-Sadeh. The festivity is celebrated among Zoroastrians mainly in Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz and Kerman. This year the event was tied to the uprising…
On the cold winter evening of 21st January, 2023, WZO Trust Funds organised its 18th Academic Annual Prize Distribution Programme, at Sirvai Party Plot, Navsari, for Zoroastrian students in schools and colleges, who had fared well academically. Of the total 221 students who had applied, ranging from junior KG to various Post Graduate levels, 114…
XYZ celebrated the fifth chapter of ‘XYZ Games’ and this year’s first intergroup competition on 29th January, 2023, at Cusrow Baug. The even saw the participation of over 200 excited participants, divided in 22 different teams, which participate in numerous games, including Obstacle courses, Net-the-ball, Water relay, Rounds of hunger, Let’s get ready to XYZ,…
On 21st January, 2023, the merry Parsis of Auckland, New Zealand, organised a Khushali Nu Jashan, at the Dar-be-Mehr, providing a lovely opportunity for the Zoroastrian community to come together and start the New Year on an auspicious and positive note. The Jashan also provided an opportunity to bid farewell to Er.Yazad Karkaria, who would…
A meeting was held at the Mancherji Joshi Hall of the Dadar Athornan Institute (DAI) on 29th January, 2023, which was well attended by students and most parents, from Mumbai and Gujarat. The meeting was held to inform parents about the promising incentive scheme for current and prospective students of the Institute (Dadar Madressa), encouraging…
The Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) held its Annual General Meeting on 21st and 22nd January, 2023, after a gap of nearly three years due to Covid restrictions, at the Banaji Hall (Banaji Atash Behram Compound), in Mumbai. Attendees: 35 Anjumans attended the 2-day meeting, hosted by the Bombay Parsi Punchayet. The…
On 22nd January, 2023, Malcolm Baug Parsi Gymkhana and Malcolm Baug Zoroastrian Association jointly organised a day-long fun exhibition, ‘Anand Mela’. The event started at 10:00 am with the inauguration by Chief Guest Dolly Bhagalia, who expressed delight about the same. Numerous stalls had the visitors engrossed through the day – including ceramic products, clothes…
For the first time in the history of the management structure of the 104-year-old foundation, Tata Trusts will adopt the CEO and COO system. While the role of the CEO was established in April 2020, it has now decided to create the COO designation, to help improve corporate governance. At a Tata Trusts meeting on…
Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally (more than 1.5 billion doses), launched ‘CERVAVAC’ – a vaccine against cervical cancer, and India’s first indigenously developed quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccine, on 24th January, 2023, on the occasion of India’s National Girl Child Day. January is…