Calling all our readers to caption this picture! Winning Caption and Winner’s Name Will Be Published Next Week. Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 27th July 2022. WINNER: Duck: Just have a Parsi Peg, my friend, you’ll stop whining and feel whack! Doggie: I’ve been warned off your suggestions – you’re just another quack!! […]
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Heartiest Welcome To Our New Indian President – Smt. Droupadi Murmu Dear Readers, As India welcomes our 15th President – Smt. Droupadi Murmu, there is much reason to celebrate and take pride in our nation’s new First Citizen and the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces. At a time when the so-called ‘global superpower’, […]
Smt. Droupadi Murmu To Be India’s 15th President
On 21st July, 2022, NDA Presidential candidate, Droupadi Murmu scripted history by becoming India’s first Tribal President, defeating Opposition nominee, Yashwant Sinha, by securing 64.03 per cent of the total votes polled, bagging 2,824 of the total 4,701 valid votes while Sinha managed 1,877 votes. The former Governor of Jharkhand (2015), 64-year-old Murmu is the first Adivasi and […]
Covid Permission By High Priests Rescinded For 4-Day Obsequies
With the Banaji Dakhma now operational for the exclusive use of Parsi/Irani Zoroastrians who have succumbed to COVID-19, thereby permitting Dokhmenishini to COVID victims in accordance with the order passed by the Supreme Court of India, the High Priests of our community – namely Dastur (Dr.) Firoze M. Kotwal (High Priest H.B. Wadia Atash Bahram, […]
Parsi Pride Brigade
Heartiest Congratulations and Best Wishes for a Shining and Successful Future to our Young Guns… Hurrah Husepas! Husepas Marfatia from Jankidevi Public School, scored a brilliant 98.2% in the ICSE Board exams, securing second position! A resident of Malcolm Baug, 16-year-old Husepas has won many Olympiad and Asset medals in Science and Maths. He […]
Happy 101st Birthday, Khorshid Jobani!
“What a lifetime achievement – Khorshid Jobani is 101 years young! Born on July 12, 1921, Khorshid has always led her life with a positive mindset. She’s a wonderful, gentle soul that sees nothing but the good in everyone. She is a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and a friend that is precious to […]
Frohar Films Presents ‘Vohumana’
Frohar Films presents ‘Vohumana’: Episode on ‘Frohar Foundation Exhibition’ -[Part -2], on 24th July, 2022, at 1:30 pm on DD – Girnar channel. This episode will include glimpses of the exhibition, comprising the Parsi Song, ‘I’m Bawa and I know it’; Dances by children; Cooking and Parsi Attire competitions, Parsi Anthem, etc.
Listen To The Legends Today At NCPA
Weaving together the tracks of Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, Holly Petrie takes us on a journey through popular music history, telling a story of the evolution of R&B, funk and soul. She has put together some of the most vocally challenging and well-known tracks from these two multi-genre legends, to showcase the widespread influence […]
TechKnow With Tantra: Shortcut Maker
This free App helps Android users create a shortcut on the home screen for anything! Simply select the feature and click on CREATE to create a shortcut! You can create a shortcut to launch an app, launch multiple apps in a split-screen, open a folder on your phone directly, change your system settings, open an […]
The World Is As You Are – Perception, Thought And Intent
There’s a Sanskrit saying, which loosely translated, means, “The world is as you are.” Ancient Indian literature speaks of a story about the great teacher, Dronacharya and his two disciples – Yudhishthira and Duryodhana. Both, Yudhishthira and Duryodhana had learnt at the feet of their great master, Dronacharya and both had developed skills in their own way […]
Parsi New Year Contest 2022
Parsi New Year Contest 2022