During the pandemic which has challenged the very survival of an innumerable number of the financially backward classes and slum-dwellers, Aviva Damania, founder of The Mind Essentials, along with The Banyan Tree team, donated and distributed a month’s ration and sanitation kits to a hundred families, which were in need of basic food to sustain…
A Press Release issued on behalf of the B D Petit Parsee General Hospital (PGH) has greatly thanked the Hong Kong-based, one of the most generous donors of our community – Jal and Pervin Shroff, for having reimbursed the entire Preliminary and Pre-operative expenditure incurred for the construction of the multi-speciality hospital, which was unfortunately…
MEDIA PARTNER PARSI TIMES XYZ Foundation, the Community’s leading establishment for children and young adults, is conducting ‘XYZ Being Parsi’ – it’s first ever major online event, with Parsi Times as its Media Partner. Open to people across all ages, this event brings to the forefront and celebrates our beautiful and vibrant religion and culture. …
As per the latest news reports, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer – Serum Institute of India (SII), shared that the Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine, whose results of Phase I, II trials have appeared safe, will be called ‘Covishield’ in India. He said that SII has sought an official approval from the Drug…
Mumbai’s Urmaze Naterwalla has just authored a textbook titled ‘Machining Solutions – The Art & Science of Metal Cutting’. His sole mission for many years has always been to help people do better in their manufacturing careers and/or help someone identify a career path in Manufacturing and Machining. Engineering students and practitioners of the Engineering…
A good number of the Zoroastrian population in Perth partook of a well organised Jashan and Ghambar on the 5th of July, 2020. At least a hundred humdins attended the Dae Mahino Jashan ceremony, which was to take place earlier but was delayed due to the pandemic restrictions. With the Australian government recently relaxing the…
Last week, Neville Sanjana, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at New York University (NYU) and at NYU’s School of Medicine, was awarded the prestigious ‘Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers’ (PECASE), as announced by the White House. These awards identify outstanding scientists and engineers who will broadly advance science and…
On July 4th, 2020, the Zoroastrian Association of California (ZAC) held an outdoor event – a day of cultivating vegetable plants at the ZAC Center – organized by our ZAC Youth coordinator – Dr. Armaiti May, along with Marina Batliwalla and her children – Avamehr, Rasha, and Rishad; Armaiti’s mother – Dhun May; Vista – an invitee…
Over the course of the previous month, the XYZ Foundation held its fun ‘Junoon In June’ challenges, which included simple, one-minute easy and fun challenges set by different XYZ group members, with a whopping 2,232 participants over the course of the month! These challenges served as great stress busters and kept the participants engaged, healthy…
Since we are following the mandatory social distancing and places of worship are closed, we are offering an opportunity for our humdins to participate in the Muktad prayers through Zoom (digital platform) from their own homes. Some people may not be in favor of performing ceremonies over Zoom but we have to do our best in the given circumstances. Hence, considering…
14th July, 2020 (Roj Ardibehest, Mah Asfandarmad) marked the auspicious centenary of the Khan Bahadur Edulji Sohrabji Chenai Anjuman Dar-e-Meher, situated at MG road in Secunderabad. Despite it being a major milestone year, in keeping with the restrictions of the pandemic, there were no public celebrations and occasion was toned down for this landmark monument….