News from 2016.
49 reports published between 2012 and 2025, alongside the fortnightly magazine.
This morning... With the police on standby duty and The Parsee Voice activists standing guard outside the Pavilion at Doongerwadi, Ervad (Dr) Ramiyar Karanjia explained the princip…
A shrine dedicated to the worship of Behram Yazad was inaugurated on December 4, 2016 by Behram Ardeshir of the Dadysett Charity Trust who cut the ribbon while fellow trustees Veer…
Noshir Dadrawala, Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee informed on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 that he "just moved the motion to let ZYNG (Zoroastrian Youth for the Next Generation)…
The Ripon Club (RC) has requisitioned an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of members on December 8, 2016 at 5 p.m. at the Club premises to adopt a resolution to negotiate "a pos…
This morning in Delhi Chief Justice of India T. S. Thakur at the launch of Justice Rohinton Nariman's book - The inner Fire: Faith, Choice and Modern - Day Living in Zoroastrianism…
Kynan Chenai, who recently represented India in Rio for his first Olympics, bagged the bronze medal on November 19, 2016 in the men's trap event at the National Shooting Championsh…
On the eve of Diwali, more than 400 people gathered at the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Poona to offer their thanks to Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, chairman of the Poonawalla Group, a…
Happened today Udwada village was adopted under Ideal Village Scheme of the government of India. The minister also inaugurated the building for a police station in the village. See…
From Hindustan Times of October 26, 2016 Jehangir Patel, editor of Parsiana, the Zoroastrian community’s semi-monthly magazine, said the episode was shocking considering the bonhom…
Dadi Pudumjee's Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust performs 'Transposition' this evening at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Australia in Confluence Festival of India in Australia.…
Justice Sharukh Kathawalla of the Bombay High Court on October 4 instructed the Charity Commissioner to complete the hearing on the validity of Muncherji Cama's resignation from th…
Thirteenth annual general meeting of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce India Region today, at Yiamas, Bombay.…
Photo: From left chief guest Pheroza Godrej, vice chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh and Sahitya Akadami deputy secretary Gitanjali Chatterjee…
Email dated August 30, 2016 issued by Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Yazdi Desai to BPP chief executive officer Cawas Panthaki instructing him to bar all staff from "giving …
The erstwhile Parsi Mohalla in Mahuva village, 28 km from Navsari has been rechristened Lt Cdr Firdaus Mogal Marg in memory of the 36-year-old Shaurya Chakra awardee naval officer,…
Delhi based designer Ashdeen Lilaowala was invited by Ekaya, the heritage textile label to collaborate with them, making Banaras his playground, and marry it with his Parsi roots. …
I am a Trustee of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, and I believe in and am committed to upholding the dignity of this position entrusted to me by my community as also to the august plat…
An altercation took place reportedly between Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Kersi Randeria and Hormuz Mehta outside the Ballard Pier magistrate's court on September 8. Former…
Five years ago the Parsi population in Maharashtra was 44,854 and in Gujarat 9,737, according to the 2011 Government of India census. The figures were sent to Parsiana on September…
Worshippers at Bombay's Doongerwadi on Frarvardin Roz, Frarvardin Mah, a day for remembrance of the dead. September 4, 2016…
First Fravardin Roz, Fravardin Mah prayers being recited at the Worli Prayer Hall on the morning of September 4, 2016…
The partnership between Jiyo Parsi, World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust Funds (WZO) and D. N. Mehta Sarvajanik Hospital at Navsari has been instrumental in fulfilling the dreams o…
The Goolrookh Gupta case challenging the Valsad Parsi Anjuman ban on entry to the fire temple and Doongerwadi for Parsi women married to non Parsis is due for final hearing in the …
A new settlement signed between the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) and the Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha on August 25, 2016, "provides for sumptuous monetary benefits to the workmen," states …