In a decree issued to all of Tehran’s Governor-generals, the Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Minister – Ali-Asghar Mounesan has underlined the need to preserve the time-honored, ancient festival of mid-winter – Sadeh, which takes place on January 30. Issued on 26th May, 2020, an excerpt from the decree reads, ‘Any measure that helps this heritage…
Backed by industrialist Ratan Tata, a Pune-based energy distribution start-up, Repos Energy, has shared plans to manufacture and sell nearly 3,200 Mobile Petrol Pumps (MPP) this year. Established three years ago, the start-up plans to get on board over 1,200 operators from across the country during FY 2020-21. The start-up possesses a fleet of 320…
UC Merced’s Graduate Division wrapped up its annual Grad Slam Competition, announcing Physics doctoral candidate, Benaz Colabewala (Boe Mendewala) as its campus champion, on 21st May, 2020. Daughter of Jimmy and Rukshana Colabewala, Benaz was declared UC Merced’s 2020 Grad Slam Champion for her talk, ‘The Solar Solution: Upgrading Energy Technology’, where her research, with Professor Sayantani Ghosh, studies…
BPP FUNDS AND PROPERTIES OF THE PARSI PUNCHAYET BOMBAY Statement for Doongerwadi And Covid 19
The world’s most revered and foremost astrologer, Bejan Daruwalla, passed away at 5:13pm, on May 29th, 2020, at the age of 88, at Ahmedabad’s Apollo Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital and put on a ventilator after he complained of breathing difficulty last week. His funeral and last rites were held at Dudheswar Crematorium…
Renowned as the doctor who was responsible for the smile of over 15,000 patients, 89-year-old Dr. Hirji S. Adenwalla passed away on 27th May, 2020. He was the Director at the Charles Pinto Cleft Centre at Jubilee Mission Hospital in Thissur, Kerala. Making children smile was his lifetime mission, he dedicated five decades to performing…
Parsis first migrated to the UAE long before its unification in 1971. While Dubai is where the majority settled, it’s capital, Abu Dhabi hosted a smaller but equally thriving community now rising to about 30 plus families. Each weekend, our close-knit group would meet for pot-lucks on Thursdays and bowling on Fridays – the only…
WZCC AND FEZANA are proud to announce the formation of ZEDF, a new independent entity that will enable funding to entrepreneurs in North America. Details as follows:
The current lockdown in Mumbai city, brought on by the increasingly spreading Coronavirus pandemic has made it virtually impossible for the underprivileged in our community to venture out and collect the monthly rations and financial support provided by ZTFI (Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India). As one of the community’s leading non-profit organisations dedicated to ease…
If there is one sentence that parents get fed up of hearing through the summer vacations, it’s “I’m bored!” Invariably, this is the lament of most kids during the vacations and the summer of 2020 has been rather unique to say the least! With the lockdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, children’s frustration levels…
On 21st May, 2020, after a span of two years, the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) released the under-construction building in Godrej Baug, that it had sealed for the non-payment of Land Under Construction (LUC) dues. The Bombay Parsi Punchayet Trustees followed up diligently with the BMC and were successful in getting the property released, after…