The holy Muktad prayers in Perth were yet again, as has been for the past almost fifteen years now, held at the home of Ervad Aspi and Farida Madan. Though the world is reeling under the COVID pandemic, Zarthostis in West Australia weren’t under severe restrictions, thanks to the Government’s stand on early lockdown and […]
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind in his message on the eve of the Parsi New Year, said, “On the auspicious occasion of the Parsi New Year, I extend my heartiest greetings and best wishes to all the fellow citizens especially to my Parsi brothers and sisters. New Year’s Day is an occasion […]
Earlier this month, the AMS (American Meteorological Society) awarded the prestigious ‘Hydrologic Sciences Medal’ to Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian in its 2021 Awards and Honors program during its 101st AMS Annual Meeting. Every year, the AMS recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations of the weather, water, and climate community. Dr. Sorooshian, an Iranian-American distinguished professor of Civil […]
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 26th August, 2020. WINNER: “Samunder mein naha ke aur bhi namkeen ho gayee ho!” By Rohinton D Dotiwala
Here’s extending our very Best Wishes for a Shining and Successful Future, alongside our Heartiest Congratulations to our Young Guns….
Re: Prayer Hall I had emailed Mr. Dinshaw Tamboly, Chairman of the “Prayer Hall Services and Maintenance Trust” with a request to kindly respond and clarify on some prima facie irregularities I observed at the Worli Prayer Hall. I received a 5-page response but none of the concerns were clarified to the point but vaguely […]
Let the passion of learning ever grow in me. Let me learn with a consuming passion. Ignorance darkens my understanding. Illumine my mind, Ahura Mazda, as the sun illumines the world. Enable my understanding to fathom the depths of knowledge. There is heartache in my inner world when my reason leaves it hungry and thirsty. […]
મરહુમ મહારાજ શ્રી સ્વયંજ્યોતિના સહકાર્યકર્તા જયેશ એમ. ગોસ્વામી .+ ARIES | મેષ: અ.લ.ઈ. બુધની દિનદશા ચાલુ હોવાથી તમારા મુશ્કેલીભર્યા કામ સહેલાઈથી કરી શકશો. મીઠી જબાન વાપરી બીજાના દિલ જીતી લેશો. તમારા અટકેલા કામ ફરી પાછા ચાલુ કરી શકશો. નાણાકીય બાબતમાં બચત કરી ઈનવેસ્ટમેન્ટ અવશ્ય કરજો. જૂના ઈનવેસ્ટમેન્ટમાંથી લાભ મળશે. મિત્રોથી ફાયદો મેળવી શકશો. દરરોજ ‘મહેર […]
The Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), a global frontrunner seeking to develop a safe and effective COVID vaccine, has registered its second and third phase trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine candidate – ‘Covishield’- with the Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI). The trails will be conducted on 1,600 healthy participants across India. […]
On 18th August, 2020, Pakistan-born, Zoroastrian quantum astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala has been named the new Dean of the prestigious MIT School of Science, one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As the hitherto Associate Head of the Physics Department, Mavalvala will take over as the new Dean from September 1, […]
. Winners Of ‘CELEBRATING HOPE IN WORDS AND ART’ WINNER: Celebrating Hope By Meher Parvez Sutaria As Alexander Pope has rightly said, Hope springs eternal in the human breast. At present dark clouds are hovering high, But they’ll soon be gone, by and by. The world, of all its mirth, is shorn, But soon, a new day will be […]