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An important announcement for our Zoroastrian youth. Rustomjee is inviting applications for its Chairman's Office...

As many as 534 births have been reported in the Parsi community since 2014-15, as the government's Jiyo Parsi scheme...

The Minority Affairs Ministry has developed a plan to "restore" the Parsi population in India, which apparently has been seen to be dwindling because of little interest in marriage among the...

The July 2022 Ba Humata Lecture Series will be on the theme “Serve and You Shall Be Served” Ushtavaiti Gatha Yasna Ha 43.1This month’s speaker list includesErvad Darayesh Katrak (India)Mobed Dr....

MUMBAI: In a congested lane off Girgaum Road in south Mumbai, a nondescript old man dressed in simple white clothes would be seen frequently walking into the city’s oldest Parsi Atash Behram, the...

The peace, tranquillity and oneness with Ahura Mazda that we experience when we gaze upon an atash is an inexplicable feeling. The silhouette of the aesthetic Afarganyu with the warm burning pile of...

Modi launches stamp for 200th anniversary of Mumbai Samachar: Look back at history of Asia's longest-running newspaper The Gujarati newspaper was first published in 1822 as a weekly by Parsi scholar...

Our friend Meher Amalsad writes in…..FATHER'S DAY 2022 TRANSFORMATIONAL SPECIAL This M&M Show Is Dedicated To All The Fathers Of Humanity And Specially To My Son Arash For His First Father's Day...

As we extend our efforts to address inequity one step at a time, is a society with no economic discrimination in education attainable? This talk by Freyaz K. Shroff focuses on the certainty of it....

The May 2022 Ba Humata talk shall be on the theme Atarsh Niyayesh, Yasna Ha 43.3 And Related PrayersSpeakers: Ervad Solicitor Zerick Dastur from IndiaDr. Dolly Dastoor from CanadaMobedyar Sarvar...

LLNL's Huban Gowadia named to State of Alabama Engineering Hall of FameLawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Huban Gowadia has been inducted into the state of Alabama’s Engineering Hall of...

THE BOMBAY PARSEE ASSOCIATION PAYS HOMAGE TO SIR HORMUSJI COWASJEE DINSHAW (ADENWALLA) ON HIS 165th BIRTH ANNIVERSARYThe Bombay Parsee Association paid homage to Sir Hormusji Cowasjee Dinshaw...

On March 23, 2022, Pakistan-based Roshan Bharucha – the only Zoroastrian in Pakistan to have been elected as both – Senator and Minister in the Federal Government – was felicitated with the...

The April 2022 Ba Humata Lecture series will featureVada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor, High Priest of IranShah, Udvada, IndiaHonorable Senator And Minister Roshan Bharucha from PakistanMobedyar Maneck...

Rescue: Extreme Medics shows how lives are saved in remotest Scotland after injuries on mountains and oil rigsDr Jasmine Medhora trained in London but at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary she is often faced...

Mani Jehangir Clubwala passed away in Chennai, India on March 10, 2022, at the age of 92 with her sons, Astad and Kaikhushru by her side. She was adored by all and will be missed a great deal by...

Meet The Girl who Rode a Harley. 102-year-old Zarine Damry tells us about her love for motorcycles. When asked what people thought of her riding a Harley-Davidson up and down Ahmednagar road 80...

The March 2022 Ba Humata Lecture Series will feature the following speakersErvad Kaiwan Turel (Hong Kong)Ervad Varzavand Dadachanji (India)Sanaya Master (Canada And New Zealand)Farida Master (New...

A Jashan was performed on Sunday, February 27th, Meher roj at the ZAC Atashkadeh by Zerkxis and Zarrir Bhandara, which was well attended by a strong crowd of 84 Zarthostis. This Jashan was arranged...

Supreme Court accepted tweaked protocol for cremation of dead bodies of Covid patients from Parsi community, after Centre and the community mutually agreed on adopting a standard operating...

The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital in Mumbai inaugurated a new Dialysis unit on February 10, 2022. The facility was established from the donations Neville Sarkari made to honour his late mother...

The case was registered on December 15, over a year after the man, identified as Yezdiar Edel Behram, died, after which the police arrested the duo as the investigators ascertained that the they...

Adar Poonawalla made the statement as a panelist during the ‘Meeting the Challenge of Vaccine Equity’ session organised by the WEF.MoneyControlThe vaccination rate needs to be faster worldwide for...

Parsi Khabar is thrilled to announce that Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla has been awarded the Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India. This is India’s third highest civilian award and Dr. Poonawalla...

Our dear friend and mentor Zerbanoo Gifford pays tribute to the great humanitarian of our times, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work fighting the inhuman...

Patel was the former vice-president of marketing, Khaleej TimesArticle By Nithin Belle | Khaleej TimesEminent advertising and theatre veteran Burjor Patel has passed away early Tuesday morning. The...

Parsi Khabar is happy to share the news that Kersi Deboo has been appointed as the Parsi Zoroastrian representative on the National Commission of the Minorities India. Kersi is a lifelong resident...

KARACHI: The geriatric ward at the infirmary of the Bomanshaw Minocher-Homji (BMH) Parsi Medical Relief Association was decorated with pink, white and gold balloons. You could see flowers everywhere...

The November 2021 Ba Humata Series will feature Ervad Brigadier Behram Panthaki (USA)Ervad Farmaan Dastoor (India)Zariab Karkaria (New Zealand)Dr. Merezban Katrak FRCS. (UAE)Dr. Karishma Koka;...

Tata’s management efficiency will allow Air India to better exploit operating assets like the lucrative routes to South east Asia, Latin America and Australia. With simple improvements in...

The prodigal son has returned. The government on Friday announced Tata Group as the winning bidder for Air India, clearing the way for the cash-strapped Maharaja going back to the founder exactly 68...

Parsis have supported many of the country’s institutions and nurtured business and the arts. But their numbers have dwindled at an alarming pace.Khurshed Dastoor, a Parsi priest, at his house in...

The October 2021 Ba Humata Series will present Ervad Cyrus Darbari (India) Mobedyar Omid Mehrayin (Iran & USA) Dina McIntyre (USA) Sanaya Khambatta  (United Kingdom) Moderated by Dr....

MIQ’s Hunger Games begin Former Times news editor Farida Master shares her experience from Canada of an anxious four-hour wait in the new MIQ Virtual Lobby with 22,909 desperate Kiwis ahead of her...

A Parsi herself, Kapoor has penned a book about her community, Veteran Indian journalist Coomi Kapoor, who herself is a Parsi, has penned a definitive book about her community, The Tatas, Freddie...

Tandy’s Creamery was founded in 2019. The brand wants to make wafer ice cream sandwich reach the masses. Despite the ups and downs caused by the pandemic, the brand’s revenue is touching Rs 7 lakh a...

Religious pluralism has long been a core value in India, which has a large majority of Hindus and smaller shares of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other groups. In recent years,...

Petitioners allege that women marrying non-Parsis, and their offspring, are not allowed to participate in the community’s religious, social and other activities R. Balaji   |  ...

We are thrilled to read about the new app that will ultimately help save lives and make trucking in India safer. Our dear friend and WZCC Global Youth Director Jehaan Kotwal has been working on this...

On August 29 2021 our dearest friend, mentor and India’s greatest holistic health and wellness guru Dr. Mickey Mehta will be stepping into super sixties.Four decades normally seem very long, but for...

Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Supreme Court’s ‘Renaissance Man’, retires on August 12 Article by Krishnadas Rajagopal ‘His is an absolute integrity matched by phenomenal memory and a capacity for...

The August 2021 Ba Humata Lecture Series will present The Spirit of Zarathushtra: Cooperation and Fellowship: Yenghe Hatam and related prayers On Sunday, August 1, 20218:00 AM Pacific | 11:00 AM...

Over the past one year alone Marzy Parakh has raised over Rs 2 crore for relief initiatives like distributing ration kits, cooked meals and reimbursing hospital and medicine bills of the needy in...

With graduation ceremonies being cancelled or turned virtual around the world, students have not been able to truly celebrate their well-deserved achievements. As a community, please join us to...

The Gujarat high court on Friday heard the petition filed by a Parsi religious body and reserved its order on the demand to permit them to dispose of the bodies of those who died of Covid-19...

Our dear friend and PhD. student Ruzbeh Hodiwala is conducting a survey as part of his dissertation. In November 2020, we had published his first pilot survey request, and he has further tweaked...