Nine-year-old Er. Darius Dastur was ordained Navar on 24th December, 2018, at Rustom Faramna Agiary, Dadar. Son of Er. Barjor Dastur and Khursheed Dastur, brother of Mahtab Dastur and grandson of late Mehernosh Dastur and late Nargesh Dastur (paternal) and Er. Hoshang Buchia and Perin Buchia (maternal), Darius learnt his Navar prayers in Houston, Texas,…
WhatsApp is one of the most preferred media for instant text communications across the world, both for formal and informal connections. Over a period of time, the chats could get cluttered and overwhelming, leading to some important messages getting missed out or ignored. In order to avoid this, Whatsapp provides a provision to ‘Pin’ messages from…
A Hundred and five Godrejites from Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., will participate, for the 12th consecutive year, in the ‘TATA Mumbai Marathon – 2019’ taking place on 20th January, 2019, with the aim of supporting 3 genuine, disadvantaged NGOs – the Republican Sports Club, where Merzban Patel identifies, coaches and mentors talented underprivileged children in Hockey…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 16th January, 2019. Winner: Modi: “Tame ‘Accidental’ Prime Minister, to hoon ‘Intercontinental’ Prime Minister!!” -By Roshan K. Bhathena
Genre: Biography, Drama Rating: 2/5 108 minutes Director: Vijay Ratnakar Gutte The film could be termed a severe disappointment, or a hilarious take on the political scenario of our country from 2004-2014, which was the period when a certain, and ‘contingent’ gentleman held the office of India’s Prime Minister. It all depends on which side…
The Early Seeds of Modern Education The modernization process among the Parsis was accelerated by travels by sea to England. For the Hindus at that time it was a taboo to travel by sea. Since the first Parsi had visited England in 1723, the number of Parsis who studied or transacted business in England grew…
Known for its comprehensive and consistent philanthropic activities to help sustain the livelihood of the underprivileged of our community with dignity, the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India (ZTFI) presents its ‘Annual Fest ’19’ (Pg. 8) on the 26th of January, 2019, as its Fund-raiser, to boost and continue its numerous charitable ventures. The Annual Fest…
The Lok Sabha (323-3 margin) and Rajya Sabha (165-7 margin) have cleared a landmark Bill to be brought in Parliament, seeking to provide 10% reservation in Government higher education institutions and Government jobs to the economically backward among the ‘General Category’. For the first time, a quota in jobs and educational institutions, on the basis of economic…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]To undo and correct any misconceptions based on incorrect assumption/allegations that are rife on social media as regards the formalization of the GWG (Global Working Group)[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . There have been a lot of rumours floating around about the formalization of the GWG and the BPP’s support towards this. This is not true and…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Trustee Kersi Randeria’s Voice Of Reason Goes Unheard (Excerpts from Trustee Randeria’s mails to Trustee Dadrawala): “…do leave me out of this most embarrassing public spat which does nothing but damage the reputation of the Trust.” “… putting all such issues out in the public domain helps no one but only succeeds…