Fifteen-year-old Ruksheen Madon from Mumbai’s Queen Mary School excelled in her ICSE Board exams with an incredible 94%! Daughter of proud parents Adil and Jasmine Madon, Rukhsheen believes in living life to the fullest with positivity and spirituality. She is an avid animal lover, especially dogs, and one of her aims is to have a shelter […]
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Parsi Pride Brigade: Radiant Riyan Karbhari Does All Proud!
Doing his parents, family, school and friends very proud by scoring an outstanding 94.33% in the ICSE Board exams, Riyan Karbhari’s success mantra is, “There is no substitute for Hard Work! Never Give Up! Never Stop Believing! Never stop fighting for your dreams!” From Vissanji Academy, Riyan is a very caring boy and is passionate […]
Parsi Pride Brigade: Student Achievers From A’bad Do Community Proud!
Student Achievers From A’bad Do Community Proud! With the CBSE and ICSE Board exam results being announced, Parsi Times congratulates our hard working student-achievers from Ahmedabad for their great success in the these examinations. Heartiest congratulations for a proud mark sheet in the CBSE Board Exams goes to Kayroze Jamshed Shroff for securing 95%; […]
Neville Tata Engaged To Manasi Kirloskar
Last week, Noel Tata’s son, Neville, got engaged to Vikram Kirloskar’s daughter, Manasi Kirloskar, in a small and private ceremony in Mumbai, marking the coming together of two leading business families. Having decided to get engaged after a brief courtship, it is reported that Neville flew down to the Kirloskars’ Bengaluru-based home to propose to […]
Mevawala Agiary Celebrates 145th Salgreh
Seth B M Mevawala Agiary (Byculla, Mumbai) celebrated its 145th Salgreh on 30th April, 2019, resplendent with flowers, lighting and rangoli. A Machi was offered in the Havan Gah to the Padshah Saheb. At 9:00 am the Salgreh Jashan, on behalf of the Trustees, was performed by the Panthaky Saheb Er. Parvez Bajan, along with […]
Celebrated Dentist Dr. Arnavaz Havewalla Passes Away
On 9th May, 2019, the Community lost our much cherished and celebrated Dentist, Dr. Arnavaz Havewala, as the result of a tragic accident that took place on April 28, 2019. Dr. Havewala, aged 63, and her daughter, Hera, 24, were involved in a terrible accident in the lift of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, located […]
Parsi Pride Brigade: Zarwaan Shroff Secures 99.2% In ICSE Boards
Tops School And Ranks At 3rd Position All-India . Parsi Times is delighted to share with our readers that Zarwaan Aspi Shroff, from Mumbai’s Behram Baug Parsi Colony in Jogeshwari, has secured a whopping 99.2% in the recent ICSE Board exams. He topped his school, Vibgyor High, and has come in at the prestigious third […]
FPZAI Holds EGM
On 5th May, 2019, in an expected turn of events, the FPZAI (Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India), which has not held its AGM for the last two years, suddenly called for an EGM (Extraordinary General Meeting), which was held in the Annexe Hall of Mumbai’s Banajee Atash Behram, at 11:30 am. Chaired […]
Book Launch: ‘The Collected Scholarly Writings of Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal Vol. 1’
Edited by Firoza Punthakey Mistree and Cashmira Vatcha Bengalli Ten years ago, at the Golden Jubilee of the Delhi Parsi Anjuman, in a conference attended by priests and scholars from India and abroad, each drew upon Vada Dasturji Firoze Kotwal’s research at some point in their study of Zoroastrianism. However, when I asked him […]
UK Exhibition Launch – ‘A Tale Of Two Empires: Rome And Persia’
The Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Trustees of the Henry Barber Trust will organize the exhibition launch of ‘A Tale of Two Empires: Rome and Persia’, at the University of Birmingham, UK, on the 9th of May, 2019. The Welcome note will be given by ZTFE’s (Zoroastrian Trust Funds of […]
WAPIZ, Dr. N K Dhabhar Trust To Provide Free Breast Cancer Screening Camps
WAPIZ has tied up with the Dr. N K Dhabhar Trust to hold FREE Breast Cancer Camps for the first time in all Parsi colonies and Baugs, starting out with the first camp to be held in Godrej Baug on Sunday 12th May, 2019. These camps will have a team of doctors and technicians who will […]