For Mother’s Sake! Dear Readers, The past couple of weeks has infused greater reality into the presence of the dreaded coronavirus, with an increasing number of community members testing COVID-19 positive. It has well entered the Baugs and some of our houses. We definitely need to ramp up our civic sense and stop making excuses…
As per a recent media interaction, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII) – the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume – has shared that his biotechnology firm, in partnership with an Oxford University-led consortium, should be able to deliver a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year. As the…
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 13th May, 2020. [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Disclaimer: Some of our ‘Caption This’ Contest photos are taken from freely available, public online resources and are published in a light and humorous vein, which…
Reliance Industries (RIL) has lost the tag of India’s highest profit-making company to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the March 2020 quarter, due to the Pandemic! At Rs 8,049 crore, TCS’ reported profit after tax (PAT) during the January-March 2020 quarter was ahead of RIL’s reported PAT of Rs 6,348 crore during the same quarter….
Tata Group patriarch and Chairman Emeritus, Ratan Tata recently picked up a 50% cent stake in ‘Generic Aadhar’, a unique pharmacy retail chain promoted by Mumbai’s 18-year old, Arjun Deshpande. Compared to other online pharmacies, Generic Aadhar sells medicines – mainly diabetes and hypertension drugs, with cancer drugs in the pipeline – at much cheaper…
Whom Should We Mourn For? This devil of Coronavirus has caused unprecedented horror and destruction to human life. When even the first-world, rich countries, with their high standards of hygiene and healthcare, have failed in driving away this deadly enemy, it is definitely not an easy task to contain the spreading of this powerful virus in an…
On 4th May, 2020, the Community’s veteran theatre artist, Bomi Kapadia, passed away in Mumbai, at the age of 93. In his death, the city has lost yet another reminder of the decades when Mumbai theatre thrived on imported-and-suitably-Indianised English plays. Kapadia was an integral part of the local English theatre scene in the ’50s…
WZO Trusts are pleased to inform that the first consignment of food grains and hygiene related utilities have been despatched on May 06, 2020 to Zoroastrians residing in villages of Mandvi and Mangrol areas, who have been financially affected due to the ongoing Covid19 – Pandemic. List of families affected financially due to Covid-19 Pandemic…
Social distancing may have put a stop to community meet ups but that hasn’t meant a break to Scouting for the 16th East Bombay Zoroastrian Bharat Scout Group, where scouts and cubs have gone online to adapt to the Coronavirus lockdown. The 16th East Bombay Zoroastrian Bharat Scout Group (a hundred-year legacy and counting) has…
The Holy month of Adar will soon end and the Holy month of Dae will commence. Many devout Zoroastrians are disappointed because they could not pray before Iranshah in Udwada or even at their neighbourhood Agyari or Atash Bahram during the month of Adar, which is dedicated to the divinity that presides over fire. However,…
Law-making in India has been taking a dangerous direction. Every scam, every fraud, every wrongdoing results in the enactment of new laws! Our law-makers believe that every wrongdoing can be prevented by bringing in new laws. They do not accept that scams can be prevented by effective implementation of existing laws. The ‘Satyam Scam’ (2009)…