News from 2018.
25 reports published between 2012 and 2025, alongside the fortnightly magazine.
Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Private Limited have undertaken repairs and restoration of the Iranshah fire temple in Udvada at a cost of five crore rupees (USD 7,14, 244), Dastur …
Delhi Parsi Anjuman (DPA) trustee Adil Nargolwalla has stated the DPA will seek the counsel of top legal luminaries to counter the petition filed in the Delhi High Court by an advo…
Happening now A move to formalize the Global Working Group was agreed by all participants barring the Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) president Yazdi …
The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing to January 4, 2019 after hearing detailed arguments over one and a half hours by Zerick Dastur who argued against the Attorney General o…
HAPPENED TODAY =============== The Atash Behram case was taken on December 7, 2018 before the Supreme Court. Detailed arguments were made in the course of the day. Mukul Rohatgi an…
Happened today ============= The Bombay High Court has ruled in favour of the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) in the contentious case of the alignment of the tunnel u…
A teak wood sculpture by Adi Davierwalla, a set of two sketches by cartoonist R. K. Laxman including one of a Parsi girl, and two posters of advertising doyenne Nargis Wadia’s artw…
If by March 31, 2019 "community issues are not sorted out,” for the new hospital venture of The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital (PGH), "the donors (Jal and Pervin Shroff of Hon…
B Bonus cheques have been issued to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) employees today after consent terms were filed in the Labour Court, states Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha general secreta…
BPP: Eviction matters ================= Stating that the plaintiffs had "played fraud upon the court and the defendants,” Small Causes Court Judge G. L. Masand dismissed on October…
Small Causes Court Judge Govind Masand today dismissed the eviction case filed by the Sir J J Parsee Benevolent Institute Trust against their tenant the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP…
Dastur Khurshed Dastoor addressing the gathering on October 13, 2018 at the 150th anniversary of Allbless Baug at Charni Road…
Bombay Parsi Punchayet ((BPP) trustee Viraf Mehta states BPP chairman Yazdi Desai acted unilaterally in writing to the government asking for the trust to be exempted from paying bo…
An order is expected in the ongoing case of "Save our Atash Behrams" in the Bombay High Court within about a week, according to reports. Arguments have concluded today. It is repor…
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) has filed an application "seeking exemption from payment of bonus under the provisions of section 36 of the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.” The eight-…
Another Bombay Parsi Punchayet trusteeship election is likely to be held in the next three months. According to reports, BPP trustee Zarir Bhathena has put in his papers. Social wo…
All permissions have been reportedly received for construction of the new cosmopolitan hospital in the B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital complex. Work is scheduled to begin soon.…
Update of August 20, 2018, 8.00 PM ============================ Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha, general secretary, Dhunji Naterwalla confirmed to Parsiana that the Bombay Parsi Punchayet emp…
Newly elected Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Xerxes Dastur took charge at 12 noon today in the BPP office. "I am enthused we are all on the same page... With the community's …
Dear Co-Trustees, I would like to put on record that since my wife Anahita Desai is standing for the forthcoming Elections, in the spirit of good governance and fair play, I will r…
The World Alliance of Parsi Irani Zarthoshtis (WAPIZ) chief executive officer and noted social worker Anahita Desai has confirmed she will be standing for the Bombay Parsi Punchaye…
Salaries of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet staff for February remained unpaid till March 9, though a source says they are making financial arrangements to pay. Some allowances for the …
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet has reportedly decided not to proceed with the waste disposal project at Ambavadi, adjoining Doongerwadi. Instead the wet waste from the Parsi colonies w…
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) will approach Justice Sharukh Kathawalla of the Bombay High Court tomorrow to bar the Metro Junction newspapers of the Bombay Samachar group from c…