News from 2021.
24 reports published between 2012 and 2025, alongside the fortnightly magazine.
New election petition filed ================== A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court (BHC) by Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustees (chairwoman) Armaity Tirandaz, Vira…
Bombay High Court Justices Sharukh Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav are scheduled to hear an appeal on December 20, 2021 regarding holding of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trusteesh…
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) is approaching its 350th anniversary. The founding years of the august body are estimated to be between 1672 and 1675, according to former BPP secr…
The number of Parsi to Parsi marriages in 1971 was 466, according to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet Statistical Outline (1971-1980) published in 1981. Interfaith marriage statistics ar…
Bombay High Court Justice A. K. Menon this morning reportedly rejected an application to accept the consent terms pertaining to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) election scheme sig…
Community activist Phiroze Amroliwalla has filed an interim application before the Bombay High Court "seeking directions as to updation of the voters list prior to holding fresh el…
Happened today. ============ Navsari-based lawyer, amateur historian, trustee in community trusts Kersi Deboo has been appointed as a member of the National Commission for Minoriti…
Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) trustee Viraf Mehta reportedly has finally signed the election consent term papers. The papers signed by all five trustees have been reportedly handed …
Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairwoman Armaity Tirandaz has reportedly agreed to sign the Court consent terms papers regarding the BPP elections. The terms include holding the tru…
With both Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairwoman Armaity Tirandaz and BPP trustee Viraf Mehta refusing to sign the Court papers giving their assent to the consent terms arrived at…
The consent terms reached by the two warring factions are as follows: The Parties agree that elections for all seven trustees will be held on 27th March 2022. The Parties agree to …
A tentative agreement to hold the elections in March 27, 2022 has been reached this afternoon between the two warring trustee factions of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet. The trustees t…
The two minority Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustees are expected to file a petition in the Bombay High Court tomorrow asking that trusteeship elections be held as per the BPP el…
By a vote of two to two with the chairperson Armaity Tirandaz using her casting vote, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) tonight postponed the thrice delayed trusteeship election for…
A fresh application has to be filed before a single judge of the Bombay High Court in the election petition filed by Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustees Kersi Randeria and Noshir…
Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustees Kersi Randeria and Noshir Dadrawala will move the Bombay High Court of Justices Sharukh J. Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav on Tuesday, September …
"I was ignored and outvoted… Embarrassing but true,” noted Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustee Kersi Randeria on August 4, 2021 after a meeting of the apex body that "overturned the una…
The trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet reportedly unanimously decided, at a meeting on July 22, 2021, that the date of the trusteeship elections shall be Sunday, October 17. A …
"At yesterday's Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) board meeting the board has unanimously agreed to file a petition in the Bombay High Court to consign those who succumb to Covid to the…
Former Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustee Muncherji Cama has expired, stated family sources. He was chairman of the Bombay Samachar. His funeral is to be held at the Worli Prayer Hall.…
Aware of the heartbreak caused to Parsis who cannot dispose of the bodies of Covid victims in the dakhmas (pictured), the Surat Parsi Panchayat (SPP) has moved the Gujarat High Cou…
Average expectancy for Bombay Parsis dropped from 83 years in 2019 to 80 in 2020 and 79.3 in the first quarter of 2021. The fall may be attributed to deaths due to Covid. See Edito…
With The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, operating at full capacity, president Homa Petit has put out an appeal for funds to upgrade the facilities at the Hospital and to meet…
With the relaxation of the state government imposed lockdown in Bombay, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustees should shortly be applying to the court for either a further extension o…