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For a few weeks each year, in parts of Karachi and Quetta, you can hear Avestan prayers in the Parsi fire temples...

A newly revealed 1964 painting by Angelo da Fonseca reworks Parsi iconography with daring tendernessIn an unexpected...

Neomi Rao, Trump's Deregulatory Leader, Gets DC Circuit Nod to Replace KavanaughNeomi Rao, who has led the Trump administration's push to curtail agency regulations, would succeed Brett Kavanaugh on...

Are Parsi men Mama’s boys? Are Parsi women really fussy?’ This was the topic of debate at a matrimonial meet for 108 eligible Parsi men and women on Sunday. Of course, the men and women refused to...

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday honoured senior advocate Fali Sam Nariman with Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration and said Nariman was one of the...

The court of Additional Sessions and District Judge Mohammad Gulzar today acquitted CPI (Maoist) ideologue Kobad Ghandy of all charges. He was booked by the Patiala police under Sections 10,13,18...

An FIR was registered by the Gamdevi police on Tuesday after a community member made repeated complaintsParsis have been most displeased and unhappy the last couple of months. Reason: certain...

Mitra Sharafi a legal historian of colonial South Asia, and a regular reader of this site writes about Jamshedji Behramji KangaDuring a recent visit to the basement of Columbia Law Library, I came...

On Monday October 15, 2018 I had an opportunity to attend a fantastic panel discussion titled “She’s the Boss: Growing into Success”. The panel was moderated by my very dear friend Narges Kakalia, a...

NORTH AMERICAN ZOROASTRIAN RELIGIOUS, COMMUNITY LEADERS TO REPRESENT ANCIENT FAITH AT 7TH PARLIAMENT OF WORLD’S RELIGIONS, NOV. 1-7, IN TORONTOBurr Ridge, Illinois, Oct. 18, 2018 – FEZANA, the...

A day after offering an out-of-court meeting to discuss options, MMRCL yesterday stated it would review the alternatives and decide whether the meeting was requiredArticle by Arita Sarkar |...

For Parsi’s information - about the opium trade. A Copyright compendium in limited circulation. © Formatted from various acknowledged original sources – By E. Kanga. China Remembers – A vast crime...

Setting community and MMRCL on warpath, govt pleader taunts petitioners: 'show more than two-and-a-half documents to prove that the Atash Behram is integral to ZoroastrianismThe Anjuman Atash...

Rayan Dadiburjor the XYZ President-Elect writes in about the recent XYZ Leadership Camp.Rayan writes…We arrived at Karjat’s Rivergate Resort with our bags packed for an overnight trip but went back...

While the tweet is a way to deter the use of mobile phones in religious places, it also has a humorous take to it. It did not take long for the post to go viral with many complimenting the priest...

Maxie Cooper's art exhibition, Now Showing, reels back in tribute to her movie mogul father Keki Modi and the golden cinema years he brought Bombay Brothers Sohrab Modi (extreme left) and Keki Modi...

In the words of Mark Twain, synergy is the bonus that is achieved when we work together harmoniously. With exactly this in mind, the Empowering Mobeds(EM) and Xtremely Young Zoroastrians(XYZ)...

We are thrilled to inform that two of our very dear friends and eminent Zarathushtis in North America have been presented the Distinguished Scholars Award by NAMC. At the last North American Mobed...

Our dearest friend Marespand Aspandiar Dadachanji, ace vintage car restorer wins 1st and 3rd positions at the Pebble Beach Concourse D’Elegance. Top Indian automotive journalist and good friend of...

Founder of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, Dr Cyrus Poonawalla has been nominated from India for the prestigious Nobel Prize, said Dr Parvez Grant, Managing...

Present today only in hundreds, the Parsi community of Pakistan, especially in Karachi, yearn for positive change and an inclusive atmosphere for all minorities. This hope stems from the upcoming...

“I was a little worried and baffled when my mother made an unusual request (rather demand) one day. When I asked her what it was, she said marry a Parsi only. Now I get where that comes from, given...

On Wednesday 27th June, 2018, the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute for Zoroastrian Studies was officially opened. To mark this joyous occasion, a launch event was held in the Brunei Suite of the...

Parsi Khabar is happy to announce that our dear friend Ervard Xerxes V Dastur has won a very tight election for the lone seat of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet.  In a hotly contested election that...

As a part of its Silver Jubilee celebrations, the 71st East Bombay Zoroastrian Bharat Guide Group of the Young Zoroastrian Society (YZS) staged the concert, ‘God’s World – Light the Passion, Share...

Noshir Dadrawala is known to most on our community as an eloquent speaker and a prodigious writer on religious and community related issues, or as a trustee of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet. Article...

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) will recognize Cyrus D. Mehta with the 2018 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law. He will...

Even as the Bombay High Court steps in to rein in a rampant MMRCL over the tunnelling process under sacred fire temples at Princess Street, petitioner Berjis Desai says that the community is often...

India’s first ‘open agiary’ mainly caters to ex-communicated Parsis, i.e. those who have married out of their community, and their children, and Zoroastrian enthusiasts who want to learn more about...

A festering family dispute among the eight partners of Parsi Dairy Farm has finally been resolved with one of the partners, Urvaksh Naval Hoyvoy, who was jailed last month, retiring. Hoyvoy, who was...

"I am no seer but I can say it with confidence.. we are moving in the right direction." The Empowering Mobeds programme with the theme of Moving Online kicked off on the morning of 13th May , 2018...

Our good friend and eminent immigration lawyer has been selected as one of the recipients of the Who’s Who Legal Awards for 2018. From Who’s Who Legal Awards website: Each year Who’s Who Legal...

Jiyo Parsi programme will help slowdown the decline of Parsi population. In what might be viewed as a winwin for Parsis of all age groups, the Jiyo Parsi programme, currently in its second phase,...

As reported earlier, in the last week of April, Justice Kathawalla was hearing cases on April 23 till 11 pm. And on April 25 till midnight. Friday, the last working day for Bombay High Court, before...

As Gujarat faces a water crisis, the wells in Parsi homes comes to the rescue of the Parsis in Navsari.

MUMBAI: A dispute over 300 acres of land owned by the family running the popular Parsi Dairy Farm has landed in the Bombay high court. The family has accused one of the dairy partners of “fraud” by...

Mega Conglomerate to build Pakistan’s first six-star international hotel on site of near-abandoned Hotel Metropole spread over 4 acres KARACHI: In an exclusive interview with Profit, ‘mystery...

Our dear reader and friend Rusi Sorabji informs us …. From President Kapadia  to Kapadia and after 93 years a lady  named Khullar….Ava Khullar The Delhi Parsi Anjuman all through its 93 years...

Karachi’s legendary Mama Parsi Girls Secondary School celebrated its 100th birthday on Sunday, April 1, 2018 In 1918, Jamshed Nusserwanjee Metha collected donations to establish the school....

Zarin Havewala doesn't call herself a professional matchmaker, but her track record suggests otherwise. "So far, 55 couples have found their partners through my efforts — 53 couples are already...

On 20th March, 2018, a 16-member Parsi delegation from Mumbai and New Delhi met the H’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at Parliament House, New Delhi. The delegation, organised and led by...

The ASHA Centre in Gloucester United Kingdom welcomed 19 young Zoroastrians from all over the world for a 10 day leadership forum starting from Friday March 16th to 25th 2018. Mentored and...

Parsi tech entrepreneur Sheriyar Patel is the mastermind behind two new ventures in the mobile and digital realm. The first is the ShareYaar Event App ShareYaar App lists events by location and...

We are happy to hear that our good friend and award-winning journalist Teenaz Javat was awarded the “Absolutely Fabulous Woman Over 40 Achievement Award” by the City of Mississauga, on the occasion...

A division bench of the Calcutta high court requested a single judge bench to consider an application by The Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) to be included as a party or...

It was an ambition and with humbleness Cobra beer could still sting the beer market with its entry. According to the founder and chairman of Cobra beer, Lord Karan Bilimoria, the combination of the...

Jal Bharucha died peacefully in Middletown, Connecticut, at age 92, having lived a good and full life. He was born in Bombay, India, in 1925 to Nariman Bharucha and Aloo Bharucha (née Patel). Jal's...

Indian American Boe (Benaz) Mendewala, an undocumented Ph.D. student studying physics at the University of California-Merced, travelled to Washington, DC Jan. 19 to urge members of Congress to pass...

We are glad to share that our dear friend and global health guru Dr. Mickey Mehta has been awarded the honour The Icon of Health and Wellness in India conferred by The Economic Times last Saturday...

Yezad Kapadia, who presided over the Delhi Parsi Anjuman for the last few years has retired from his position, per an email communique below. Yezad Kapadia writes… Dear Fellow Members of The Delhi...

An annual tour is bringing together young Zoroastrians from across the world to explore their culture in India and even find a partner Return To Roots fellows on a BEST, Mumbai. Photo: Aniruddha...