XYZ’s Rustom’s Rockstars (RR) from Bandra celebrated Children’s Day and their recently achieved victory at ‘XYZ Extravaganza’ by indulging in an evening full of fun and outdoor activities, on 19th November, 2017. Initially keeping the location of the picnic a secret so as to add to the excitement, the bus finally reached Upvan lake, Thane…
‘Lion Daara B. Patel, Secretary-General of Indian Drug Manufacturers’ Association (IDMA), received the Economic Times Award and a ‘Certificate of Excellence’ at the ET Pharma And Life Sciences Congress 2017, on 3rd November, 2017, in Mumbai. A veteran in the pharma industry for over three decades and a crusader of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, Daara…
CRICKET India Wins Second Test Against Sri Lanka: Stellar batting performances from Virat Kohli (213), Cheteshwar Pujara (143), Murali Vijay (128) and Rohit Sharma (102*) with great bowling from Ashwin and Jadeja, helped India win the second test by 239 runs against Sri Lanka at Nagpur. Batting first, Sri Lanka notched up 205 in 79.1….
Throwing Light On The Metro III Alignments by Maneck Engineer Kudos to Parsi Times for bringing out an excellent article in the issue dated 11th November, 2017, with an exhaustive explanation along with diagrams, to clear the doubts from the minds of the community members, that the Metro does not undermine the sanctity of religious…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Last month, the greats of the Community came together to celebrate and cheer the achievements and successes of some of the Community’s leading individuals and organisations, at the glittering Zoroastrian Achievers Awards Night (ZAAN) 2017 function. Seventeen exemplary community luminaries were felicitated with the much-coveted ZAAN for doing the Community and the nation…
The Bangalore Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman felicitated Naval Hormusji Dalal on his 103rd Birthday, on 27 November, 2017. Born in 1914 into a horse racing family, Naval’s elder brother Rusi, who was just a few years older than him, took him for admission to the Clarence Boys School in Bangalore, where the English headmistress christened him…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]On the first month death anniversary (Masiso) of the Community’s much loved Mobed Palanji Pirojshah Dastoor, which falls on 5th December 2017, nephew, Er. Cyrus Darbari delivers a heartfelt tribute for Mobed Palanji, who has been a guiding light not only to him, but to all priests and laity whose lives he touched…
At the recently concluded Parsee Gymkhana (Marine Lines) All-Parsee TT tournament, on 25 and 26 November, 2017, Parsee Gymkhana (PG) won three of the five titles. Percy Mehta prevented a clean sweep by winning the Veterans Singles. Zubin Taraporewalla and Frenaz Chipia (just back from the Belgium Open) reached the Open Singles finals, and combed to win the…