News from 2016.
49 reports published between 2012 and 2025, alongside the fortnightly magazine.
Kynan Chenai was felicitated at the Navroze function and dinner at the Zoroastrian Club of Secunderabad and Hyderabad. The 25-year-old represented the country in trap shooting at R…
On this Shehanshahi New Year, August 17, 2016, Parsiana gifts you an app. It is available in play stores from your Android and Apple phones. It has useful tabs and links that you m…
The Parsi community birth figures for 2015 released by the Bombay Municipal Corporation show a drop of 17 births compared to the previous year. Last year’s figure for Bombay was 19…
Despite being told he was not invited and asked to leave Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Viraf Mehta remained present at a press conference called by four trustees of the BPP …
The 2011 Government of India census figures put the Indian Parsi population at 57,264, according to news sources. A figure of 60,000 was anticipated but the figure cited is lower. …
"There are two alternatives for the proposed agiary in New Bombay,” according to Sharukh Doctor, president of The New Bombay Zoroastrian Association Charitable Trust (TNBZACT). "We…
Dastur (Dr) Peshotan Mirza, 72, has passed away today at Jaslok Hospital.…
Regular readers of Parsiana would be aware of the travails of Kobad Ghandy. The Hindustan Times reported today that he was acquitted today by a Delhi court of all charges under Unl…
Together - Towards - Tomorrow is the motto of the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress to be held in Perth, Australia, June 1 to June 3, 2018, informs Firoz Pestonji on behalf of BAWAZ …
Parsiana intends to reprint H D Darukhanawalla's classic, Parsi lustre on Indian soil. We would appreciate receiving any information on the author to incorporate in the introductio…
Maoist sympathiser Kobad Ghandy has been reportedly shifted from Tihar Jail to a prison in Andhra Pradesh/Telangana following the end of his court case in Delhi. Judgment is awaite…
Sitting Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Armaity Tirandaz (third from left) with her family following her victory in the trusteeship election on April 10, 2016…
An authorised biography of Zubin Mehta authored by Bakhtiar Dadabhoy will be released on April 15 in Bombay…
The Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank Limited election results were announced at 4.30 p.m. April 4, 2016. The winners are (General category) Homa Petit 984, Mehrab Irani 849, Maneck Ka…
Sitting facilities, shade, fans, drinking water and tea or coffee will be provided to voters at the Sunday April 10, Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trusteeship elections. Election co…
The proposed changes to the Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) rules and regulations permit foreign Zoroastrian associations as liaison members of the FP…
Parsi Bol 2 (left to right) Sooni Taraporevala, Boman Irani and Meher Marfatia…
Garlanded bust of Bomanjee Hormusjee Wadia at the Clock Tower on Perin Nariman Street in the heart of Bombay's Fort area at the start of the restoration work by the Kala Ghoda Asso…
Shroff family members at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Shroff Medical Centre of The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital on February 28…
Jal Shroff (with pickaxe) at the ground breaking ceremony for the Shroff Medical Centre of The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital on February 28…
There are talks of sitting Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Armaity Tirandaz re-contesting the forthcoming BPP trusteeship election on this April 10. A text message sent to her…
NS Vikant memorial unveiled outside Lion Gate in Bombay. Sculpture by Arzan Khambatta. The project was conceived and steered by Cmdre Medioma Bhada (Retd) an ex-pilot of the vessel…
Former Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Arnavaz Mistry is contesting the April 10 BPP trusteeship election.…
At the book launch of Keki Daruwalla's ancestral affairs on January 4, 2016 at Kitab Khana. From left: Ranjit Hoskote, Vrinda Nabar and Daruwalla.…