Legendary rock singer of Parsi Zoroastrian descent, Freddie Mercury, the frontman of then iconic rock band, Queen, is being honoured with a street named after him in Munich, Germany. This is the unanimous resolution of Munich’s city council. Five years ago, the radio station ‘Rock Antenne’ and its rock community, had put in the official…
Jamshedpur’s much loved and respected Dr. H K Gardin, who had earned the reputation as the city’s ‘Warrior of AIDS and HIV’, passed away on 24th September, 2020 after initially testing positive for the coronavirus, at the age of 61. Dr. Gardin had retired as TMH’s (Tata Main Hospital) renowned skin specialist and physician, and…
On 21st September, 2020, the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest producer of vaccine in volumes, started the Phase-III or last and final stage of clinical trials, for the Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’, at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, Maharashtra. As per Dr. Muralidhar Tambe, Dean, Sassoon General Hospital, the dose of the…
An unidentified cyber fraud stole Rs 90,000 between June and July from the bank account of 62-year-old Laila Rustom Jehangir, one of the two daughters of billionaire and business magnate, Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, who owns one of the biggest conglomerates – the Shapoorji Pallonji group. An FIR has been registered at the Colaba police station….
The torrential downpour which took place in Mumbai on the night of 22nd September, 2020, caused a minor landslide at Khareghat Parsi Colony, at Pedder Road in South Mumbai. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) D ward Assistant Municipal Commissioner (AMC) Prashant Gaikwad confirmed with the Free Press Journal that, as a precautionary measure they had asked…
It was indeed a proud moment for Zarthostis worldwide when Raeka Behram Patel, the daughter of Er. Beheram Patel of Dahanu Road Agiary, featured on the prestigious Times Square after her company got listed on Nasdaq. Raeka is currently pursuing research in Muscular Diseases for an organisation in the USA. Most Parsi/Irani Zoroastrian social media…
September 22, 2020 marked the beginning to the end of 70-years-plus iconic association between two of our community’s and our nation’s most formidable business groups – Tata Sons and Shapoorji Pallonji Group. After four years of rough litigations, since Cyrus Mistry’s ouster in 2016, Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group confirmed its exit from Tata Sons as…
– Can Detect COVID In Under An Hour! – On 19th September, 2020, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gave approval for the commercial launch of India’s first Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) Coronavirus test called ‘Feluda’, developed by the Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology). ‘Feluda’ has…
Aspiring students and faculty in the Information Technology field are offered a great opportunity for their degrees, to enrol in any of Japan’s three prominent universities, which are presenting their Sep/2021 batches for UG/PG. A webinar on the promotion of their English taught courses will be conducted on 6th October, 2020. Those interested could go…
CBI (Confederation Of British Industry) President, Lord Karan Bilimoria is set to emphasise the need for technology development to reflect diversity in society if it is to deliver tangible benefits for ethnic communities, at the launch of the new CBI BAME (Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic) in Tech Group. Lord Bilimoria will express how the…
Dr. Hoshedar P. Tamboli, who has been in the practice of interventional and consultative cardiology in Tampa, Florida, for twenty-eight years now, was recently awarded ‘Top Cardiologist 2020’ by Florida Magazine on the recommendation of patients and his peers. Heart Vascular and Vein of Tampa Bay (HVVTB) proudly announced that Dr. Hoshedar Tamboli will be…