Earlier in the week, there was an unnecessary hullabaloo raked up in the mainline and social media as regards an alleged misinterpretation by Ex-BPP Chairman – Dinshaw Mehta, based on the one-word response of Founder of Serum Institute of India, Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, to his (Mehta’s) request for setting aside 60,000 vials of Covid-19 vaccines, […]
Our last (second) update was shared on June 6, 2020 (in Parsi Times) with donors, well-wishers and community members to apprise them of efforts undertaken by WZO Trusts to extend support to poor Zoroastrians affected financially due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. WZO Trust Funds shares the details of the third Update, as of 31st July, […]
On the occasion of International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystems, on 26th July, 2020, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., in collaboration with WWF India (World Wide Fund for Nature, India), launched ‘Magical Mangroves’, a national campaign which highlights the significance of mangroves conservation in present times and urges citizens to join the conservation […]
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has received a $1.5 million challenge commitment from the Massiah Foundation to establish the Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies – the first of its kind in the United States. Additionally, the University of California will support the chair with up to $500,000. The Massiah Foundation was founded by Fariborz Maseeh, Ph.D., […]
XYZ Seniors conducted two fun events in the past week. July was full of fun, games and anticipation for the parents and volunteers of the XYZ Foundation. The XYZ Seniors organized a Volunteers’ Funday Month, every Saturday through July, where parents and volunteers were mixed and divided into four teams which competed with each other. […]
Kayishmand Hormuzd Chothia, from Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada was recently awarded ‘The Covid Classic Award’ for Visual Arts by the Halton District School Board. She becomes the first recipient to receive this newly instated award, given for the first time this year from the Halton District School Board and will be given every year moving forward. Kayishmand […]
After the recent success of the food donation drive held in Dharavi at The Banyan Tree English School, ‘The Mind Essentials’ – the mental health platform founded by psychologist, Aviva Damania – will further be empowered with a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Team. Aviva Damania, who is also a columnist with Parsi Times, shares with […]
Mobed Arash Kasravi, a practicing US-based Zoroastrian priest, was tragically murdered on July 24, 2020, in the city of Mahan, in Kerman, Iran, according to the Iranian state news agency, IRNA. Mobed Kasravi was a respected member and religious leader of the Zarathushti community in Southern California. As per Iranwire news agency, Mobed Kasravi was […]
An online religious initiative – agiaryconnect.com – has been recently re-launched, to enable Zoroastrians worldwide to request conducting prayer services online, which would be performed by Mobeds, in the Banaji Limji Agiary (Fort, Mumbai). Founded by three enterprising American Parsis – Dinsha Mistree (Houston), Benafsha Shroff (Denver) and Jamsheed Mistri (California) – agiaryconnect.com – facilitates […]
The risk that Adar Poonawalla, CEO and owner of Serum Institute of India (SII), took on the coronavirus vaccine, by investing heavily in it much before it had completed its clinical trials, seems to be paying off well, as early trials are showing positive results. Pune-based SII is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume […]
In a submission to the Supreme Court on (date), the Tata Trust’s current Chairman, Ratan Tata said that the future head of Tata Trusts could be a non-Tata. “I happen to be the current chairman of these trusts. It could be somebody else, not necessarily with the surname ‘Tata’, in the future. An individual’s life is […]