The Padma Awards 2023 were conferred on 6th April, 2023, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi. President of India, Droupadi Murmu, who had approved the conferment of 106 Padma awards on the eve of this year’s Republic Day, awarded the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards. In…
10th April, 2023 (Roj-Jamyad, Mah-Ava) marks the 192nd birth anniversary of one of the most popularly worshipped and pious Zoroastrian saints – Dasturji Jamshed Sohrab Kukadaru Saheb – who was known to possess spiritual powers/potency known as ‘Amal’, which empowered him to perform extraordinary feats, which we know as ‘miracles’. Even today, many of the…
Table Tennis legend, Burjor Khambatta, (popularly called Baji), who created much upsets with his defensive style of play, shocked the table-tennis fraternity when he passed away of a cardiac arrest, on 5th April, 2023, after a brief illness. Born on 2nd June, 1935, ‘Baji uncle’, as he was fondly known, came into prominence in the…
Significance Of The Nowruz Table [otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#00″] Noshir Dadrawala, scholar in Zoroastrian religion and culture, responds to queries sent in by readers seeking answers to various religious and cultural queries [/otw_shortcode_info_box] Query From Parsi Times reader, Abraham Mansouri from Iran: “I am an Iranian and interested to know the relation of…
WAPIZ (World Alliance of Parsi Irani Zarthoshtis), one of the community’s foremost non-profit organisations, dedicated to community-service, has announced the launch of its latest project – ‘WAPIZ Helping Hands For Seniors’, in support of the community’s elderly. A much needed and welcome initiative for the community, ‘Helping Hands’ has been conceptualized and brought to…