Parsi apex body says final draft is being prepared after consulting priests, religious scholars and senior legal...

Parsi apex body says final draft is being prepared after consulting priests, religious scholars and senior legal...
The Bombay high court has directed that elections for the post of all seven trustees of Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP)...
Parsis in Mumbai and Gujarat have hailed the Supreme Court’s approval of a revised protocol for disposing of bodies of Parsi Covid-19 victims that re-allows for last rites as per the Zoroastrian...
The BMC has barred the Parsi practice of letting the bodies of community members dying of Coronavirus decay naturally saying traces of the virus could spread through pallbearersMost Parsis are...
Community heaves sigh of relief after consent terms for Bombay Parsi Punchayet elections are signed and ready for the Bombay High Court on MondayNoshir Dadrawala went on a hunger strike on October...
After high drama including a hunger protest by two of its trustees, the turmoil in the over 300-year-old Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) was resolved on Wednesday evening. The BPP, the apex body...
The BPP is the apex body of the Parsi community and the second largest landlord in the city, after the Bombay Port Trust (BPT). It controls massive swathes of land, many of which are residential...
Trustee’s protest takes form of hunger strike as he claims drastic measures needed to press for elections by year endA combative Noshir Dadrawala (centre) on hunger strike outside the Punchayet...
The crisis in the over 300-year-old Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) intensified over the weekend with a trustee planning to go on a hunger strike from Monday morning.Article by Nauzer Bharucha | TNN...
A Parsi woman who challenged rejection of her nomination to contest Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) elections got no immediate relief from Bombay high court. HC referred to her “obvious reluctance’’ to...
Court makes out ‘no case for interference at this stage’ due to her ‘obvious reluctance’ to obtain confirmation that her nominator for BPP election was an active Zoroastrian The Bombay High Court on...
Below is a report circulated by The Parsee Voice The repairs to the Bisni Dakhma at our hallowed Mumbai Doongerwadi, are finally completed thanks to donations received from certain members of the...
In a limited relief to members of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP), the Bombay high court has permitted them to hold prayer meetings at the Doongerwadi Tower of Silence at Kemps Corner on September...
Observing that both sides must be reasonable, the Bombay high court on Monday directed the Maharashtra government to consider a representation by the Bombay Parsi Punchayet to allow community...
XERXES DASTUR FULFILLS HIS ELECTION PROMISEAt the Board Meeting or July 29th, 2020 chaired by Mrs. Armaity Tirandaz, the trustees of the BPP resolved to revoke the Rs. 750/pm service charge that was...
Within a week of the first lockdown, I came across an appeal by the BPP (Bombay Parsee Punchayet). They were looking for volunteers to assist old and needy Parsees. Volunteers to deliver food,...
Statement for Doongerwadi and Covid 19 Sometime in mid-March when the Covid 19 deaths started in Mumbai, the issue of consignment of our dead at Doongerwadi has been at the forefront of the various...
Parsi victims of Covid-19 are being denied their ancient traditional funeral rites and forcibly cremated, leaving families traumatized and a community enraged against its leaders. Over the past...
BPP, hospital’s managing committee invite tenders In an attempt to give a new life to the defunct and dilapidated Parsi Lying-In Hospital (PLIH) in Fort, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) and the...
The BPP president had earlier sent a mail to the Bhikha Behram well trustees to not invite Dadrawala for a prayer meet, as he was a reformistNoshir Dadrawala speaks during the 10th anniversary...
BPP chairman requests Bhikha Behram Well trustees to not invite BPP trustee Noshir Dadrawala as guest speaker at the event, which marks 10 years of Humbandagi on Ava RojNoshir DadrawalaA controversy...
With space crunch and the civic body imposing heavy fines for unauthorised parking in the city, residents and commuters of Kemps Corner have taken to parking their vehicles inside the Parsi Tower of...
The city collector has issued demand notices to the city's largest private landlord, Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), for various properties, including prominent residential baugs built by...
Trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, founded in the 17th century to look after the welfare of the Parsi community, have constituted a 16-member consultative committee of prominent people to...
Yazdi Desai's idea of keeping BPP out of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India's affairs led to a heated exchange of words between trusteesNoshir Dadrawala and Yazdi DesaiWith the...
The ban on the distribution of the newspaper in community housing estates, which houses nearly 5,500 families, was ordered by the BPP’s chairperson Yazdi DesaiLast week, HT had reported that a...
Four of seven Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustees have voted to file a no confidence motion against chairman Yazdi Desai for allegations ranging from protecting a non-Parsi trespasser to promoting...
Some community members say charity commissioner’s nod was not taken for deal.BD Petit Parsee General Hospital’s (PGH) bid to beat financial blues by opening a new hospital for all on its premises...
Based on the criminal complaint filed in Sewri court, Desai has alleged that Mehta has been spreading false and derogatory informationThe tussle between the current chairman of the Bombay Parsi...
BPP chairman’s wife is contesting for trustee’s post, raising prospects of husband-wife pair in control of the community’s largest trust. Ever since the Bombay Parsi Punchayet Trust adopted the...
Candidate Profile Anahita Desai The past few weeks have witnessed a couple of Manifestos coming from candidates standing for BPP Trusteeship. These Manifestos clearly expose the candidates’ limited...
One of the venues for election may be changed; some members suspect ulterior motives With just a little over a fortnight before the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) election takes place, mid-day has...
On the sidelines of the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress 2018 in Perth Australia, Parsi Khabar had an opportunity to catch up with Ervard Xerxes Dastur who is contesting the BPP Trustee election for...
Candidate Profile Ervard Xerxes Vispi Dastur Proposed by: Mr. Cyrus Jamshed Guzder Seconded by: Mr. Keki Mistry Supported by: The Community “KOMMNO” ANNE “KAMMNO” TRUSTEE This Bombay Parsi...
Says the chairman humiliated him in front of staff members The internal bickering among the trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), city’s oldest and richest trust, continues. On Wednesday,...
Owner of Mumbai Samachar to appear in HC on Feb. 16 Mumbai: Trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) have approached the Bombay High Court over a series of news reports published in a supplement...
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet’s (BPP) plan to set up a waste segregation and composting unit at a plot near the Tower of Silence has been scrapped after community members opposed it. Article by Yesha...
At the time of its implementation this February, it could have been argued that the Bombay Parsi Punchayet's (BPP's) decision to hike the service charge for its colonies and baugs was not the best...
After the meeting of the office bearers & Committee Members of the Associations of all BPP Baugs, its activists and residents with the Board of Trustees of BPP on 25th April 2017 regarding the...
Community politics and mud-slinging has hit the Parsis' representation in the National Commission for Minorities ONCE again, in the battle between the conservative Right and liberal Left, the Indian...
The Mumbai Samachar asks about the status of the Rs 22 lacs that was found in the BPP CEO's cupboard. The community is aware that cash of more than Rs. 22 lakhs was found in September 2014 in late...
‘We will continue ZYNG’ing’ For 7 years ZYNG has served society and our community, working tirelessly for the positive growth of our community youth. We are now the largest youth body of our...
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) is the talking point once again in the community after its board of trustees cut ties with its youth wing Zoroastrian Youth for Next Generation (ZYNG). Article by...
Politics is too serious a matter to leave to politicians. Rightly did Federick Lewis Donaldson in a sermon at Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925 say: "The Seven Social Sins are:1. Wealth...
Below is a message we have received from Hormuz D. Mehta. Hormuz writes… When I got married earlier this year, I gave a commitment to my wife that I would not embroil myself in BPP politics,...
Below is a message we have received from Kersi Randeria, BPP Trustee. Kersi writes… I am a Trustee of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, and I believe in and am committed to upholding the dignity of this...
A Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee and its former chairman filed criminal complaints against each other after a fight at Ballard Pier magistrate court on Thursday. Kersi Randeria, the trustee...
High drama ensued yesterday at Churchgate Garware Club's fifth floor party room during a Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP) press conference. BPP chairman Yezdi Desai and others trustees had organised the...
The issue began back in 2013 when Musharraf Yusuf Kader wanted to purchase the sale of tenancy rights of a property which falls under the ‘pagdi’ system. THE LEGAL spat between trustees of the...
Recently The Times of India published an entire article based on an anonmyous Whatsapp message. The journalist Bella Jaisinghani took this Whatsapp message and spun an entire conspiracy theory...
Armaity Tirandaz won the one seat up for trusteeship to the Bombay Parsi Panchayat elections (BPP) held across five polling booths in the city on Saturday. An elderly lady at the Bombay Parsi...
Parsis need reservations in educational institutes: chairman, Bombay Parsi Punchayet chairman, Bombay Parsi Punchayet Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) is the world’s largest Parsi-Zoroastrian...