Fasli Iranshah Salgreh: 24th November, 2020 marked the Fasli salgreh of Pak Iranshah Atashbehram in Udvada (Adar Mah Adar Roj – Fasli Calendar). A Hama Anjuman Machi was offered to the sacred Iranshah in the Havan Geh. This was followed by a Jashan, led by Vada Dasturji of Iranshah Udvada – Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor.
ZTFE Past President and one of the founding leaders of the World Zoroastrian Organization in the United Kingdom, Shahpur Framroze Captain, passed away peacefully at his home in Wilmington, Kent, on 1st December, 2020 (Mah Tir, Roj Rashne). His Uthamna and Charam prayers were performed at the Zoroastrian Centre at the WZO House. A much…
On 28th November, 2020, Community service organisation WAPIZ, under the able leadership of its CEO – Anahita Desai, distributed fifteen brand-new Singer Sewing Machines free, to under-privileged community members, to support their families. Earlier in the month, on 23rd November, WAPIZ had shared a WhatsApp message asking community members who could benefit from the use…
In order to ensure safety and precaution during the pandemic, Tata Motors has come up with a unique plan of delivering fully sanitized cars inside bubble wraps to customers. Tata Motors shared a few examples of its initiative on social media, where cars are seen inside the ‘Safety Bubble’ before they are handed over to the…
The dwindling number of vultures in Hyderabad has resulted in its 1,200-strong Parsi community turning to technology for the last rites of its dearly departed, according to state news agencies. To speed up the decomposition of corpses, Hyderabad’s Tower of Silence, located in Parsi Gutta, has installed a solar concentrator which focuses the sun’s rays…
In the recent ‘Swachhata Sarvekshan Survey’ conducted by the Surat Municipal Corporation across all zones of Surat, the ‘Kadiwala Maternity Home and Urban Health Centre’, ably managed by Dr. Persis Homi (Mevawala) Doodhwala, bagged the prestigious ‘Sawachhata Sarvekshan Award – 2020’, in the central zone of Surat, alongside two other private hospitals. What makes winning…
It was a rare and prestigious moment of honour for Parsi musician, Mumbai-born flautist – Dilshad (Billimoria) Posnock – for being selected as one of the only two performers in a musical tribute, to the recently elected US Vice President Elect – Kamala Harris. The tribute was organised by ‘Classical Movements’ – a concert tour…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who carried out a three-city visit to get a “first-hand perspective of the preparations, challenges and roadmap in India’s endeavour to vaccinate its citizens,” on 28th November, 2020, spent over an hour at Pune’s Serum Institute of India (SII), headed by Dr. Cyrus and Adar Poonawala. SII has partnered with AstraZeneca…
On 26th November, 2020, the Prime Minister Office (PMO) confirmed that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, would be visiting the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune’s Hadapsar area today, on 28th November, 2020. Scheduled to arrive around 1:00 pm and leave around 2:30 pm (as per the tentative schedule), PM Modi is likely to…
The deal between Tata Group and one of India’s largest e-grocers, Bigbasket, is in the last lap, as reported by CNBC-TV18 media sources. The Tata Group is set to acquire a majority stake in the e-grocer and the deal could be closed by the end of the month. BigBasket is among the largest e-grocers in…
On 13th November, 2020, Mumbai-born and settled in the USA, Benaz Colabewala, successfully defended her dissertation to earn a Ph. D in Physics from the University of California, Merced (UCM). Her thesis, titled ‘Optical Properties Of Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films And Quantum Dots For Solar Device Applications’, is the culmination of six years of her…