News from 2017.
47 reports published between 2012 and 2025, alongside the fortnightly magazine.
NEWS JUST IN Maoist sympathizer Kobad Ghandy has been released on bail from the Visakhapatnam jail this evening, according to family sources. He still faces bail hearings in other …
The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India will host the Global Working Group meet on December 20 at the Banaji Atash Behram Hall in Bombay. Delegates from India, Ir…
The Ripon Club has called an extraordinary general meeting of members on December 19, at 5 p.m. to discuss "a final offer” negotiated with the landlords, the N. M. Wadia Trust, to …
Independent, London based scholar on Zoroastrianism, Farrokh Vajifdar died after a prolonged illness on this November 21…
At cross purposes The first public salvo against the proposed cosmopolitan hospital in The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital (PGH) complex has been fired by lawyer Khushroo Zaiwa…
NEWS JUST IN 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 "next on board" …
In a widely reported move, Dasturs (Dr) Firoze Kotwal and Khurshed Dastoor met Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on November 9, 2017. Chairman of the Kala Ghoda Associat…
Dina Wadia, the daughter and only child of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Ruttie (née Petit) passed away in London on Thursday, Express Tribune News of Pakistan reported, quo…
The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital (PGH), is signing an agreement with the Medanta Group (The Medicity, Gurgaon), on October 25 to equip, operate and manage a separate new Cos…
Publisher and chairman of the Kala Ghoda Association Maneck Davar believes that "the apprehension about Bhikha Behram Well running dry is misplaced.” During the Kala Ghoda Arts Fes…
NEWS JUST IN A hearing is scheduled in the Prochy Mehta case in the Calcutta High Court on October 27, 2017. An originating summons was filed by Mehta and her daughter, Sanaya, thi…
"The full board of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) met Mr. Saxena and Mr. Joshi of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on October 9 from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm to discuss” limiting …
NEWS JUST IN The Alpaiwalla Museum in Khareghat Colony containing Parsi artefacts is to receive a four crores rupee (USD 6,12,028) grant from the Government of India to complete th…
Dasturs (Dr) Firoze Kotwal and Khurshed Dastoor led 30 mobeds in a jashan to mark the 188th salgirah of the Hormusji Bomanji Wadia Atash Behram at Princess Street…
Former Air Chief Marshal Fali Major was elected president of the Bangalore Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman this September 24.…
The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) honorary secretary Noshir Dadrawala has resigned from his post in the all-India body. In an email dated September …
HAPPENED YESTERDAY The works of two Parsi artists went under the hammer on September 13, 2017 at Christie's New York auction of South Asian modern and contemporary art. Scupltor Ar…
NEWS JUST IN The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) meeting scheduled for Ahmedabad this September 23 and 24 is off. This is the second such out-of-Bomba…
By a vote of 14 in favor and two abstaining, the executive council of The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India decided on July 30 to intervene in the Originating S…
"The FPZAI (The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India) by intervening in this Court case, cannot be termed as interfering in the autonomous working of an anjuman. W…
Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Noshir Dadrawala has stated that "Neither the BPP nor The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India should intervene in the Calcutt…
The Calcutta Zoroastrian Community's Religious and Charity Funds representative on The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) has written to the all-India bo…
An extraordinary executive council meeting of The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India will be convened in Bombay on July 30 at noon to decide whether the all-Indi…
NEWS JUST IN! The Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group has donated £5 million to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London to create the world-leading SOAS S…