Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 15th April, 2020. WINNER: Doggie: No no! You keep your mask on! It’s more peaceful that way! By Ratan J Mody
With the entire nation under an indefinite lockdown Raell Padamsee's ACE (Academy for Creative Expression) has launched the ‘ACE CREATIVE CLUB’ where they have designed an exclusive set of creative activities for kids (3 – 13 years) to do at home! This Club is complimentary for all and offers activities that are fun and challenging…
Coronavirus – Personality Plus or Minus? [otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#02266e” background_color=”#d2e5fa”]The COVID-19 Pandemic has changed our lives for good. Nothing will truly feel the same, when we emerge on the other side, after surviving and quashing the Coronavirus (Godspeed!!). But till then, as we live through the Social Distancing, Quarantine and the mandatory isolation, confined…
Kudos BPP! Helpline Initiative Very Apt In Such Trying Times In these challenging and trying times, positive initiatives and actions need to be applauded and I take this opportunity to thank BPP for their recent initiative of having the foresight to launch a helpline in these difficult times. Ten days past the lockdown, I did…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary. [/otw_shortcode_info_box] It’s been close to a month now since we were unceremoniously hurtled into this lockdown mode. Unprepared, uncertain, the nation reeled under the…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]The programme, offered on the TCS iON Digital Learning Hub platform, is followed by an online digital assessment and certification, according to a TCS statement.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] On 6th April, 2020, Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) strategic unit – TCS iON, announced a free, 15-day, self-paced digital certification programme called ‘Career Edge’, specially designed for college…
On 3rd April, 2020, our community’s extremely talented musician, Er. Frazan Adil Kotwal, currently based in Germany, was invited to the Robert Bosch Hospital to sing for patients enduring the Coronavirus. Handled with care, in keeping with the need for Social Distancing, he sang from outside the hospital premise, while the patients watched from their…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Our community’s leading medical luminary, Dr. Keki Edulji Turel commands 47 years of expertise in neurosurgery and is a Consultant Neurosurgeon, Prof. Emeritus, Dept of Neurosurgery at the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences. Known for his compassionate outlook towards his patients, Dr. Keki Turel is the Managing Trustee at Mumbai Institute of Neurosciences…
‘Living Zoroastrianism’, by Anna Sowa and Almut Hintze from SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies and Chouette Films, has received a Special Mention at the prestigious 2020 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Awards ceremony, in the Best Practice Research Portfolio 2020 – Installations and Video Essays Special Mentions. The judges…
Your future is the result of your habitual thinking – it is already in your mind. The future of a country, likewise, is in the collective consciousness of the people of that nation. Tomorrow’s events are inside your mind, in your thinking… so are next week’s and next month’s! No coronavirus or disaster is likely to happen to…
In all business transactions, you get an invoice from your supplier (or even restaurant) which includes his GST Identification No. If you need to verify the No., to see if it’s an authentic GST registered enterprise, whether he has paid his GST dues and whether he has filed his GST returns upto date, use this…