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Jehaan Adil Kotwal, the young 26 year old CEO of JFK Transport wins the 2017 Mahindra Youth Transport Personality of the year Award. Besides this award Jehaan also won Castrol’s best Transporter of the year award. Jehaan recently was invited to speak on the panel at the WZCC Global AGM in Hong Kong. He was… Continue reading Jehaan Kotwal Wins Mahindra’s Youth Transport Personality of the Year 2017 Award

Huban A. Gowadia is currently the Acting Administrator of the TSA. She assumed the role after the stepping down of the previous head of TSA at the end of the Obama Presidency.   Huban Gowadia is the Deputy Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. In addition to guiding implementation of the Administrator’s strategic goals, she… Continue reading Huban A. Gowadia Heads Transportation Security Administration in the United States

President of France François Hollande bestows the prestigious National Order of Merit on Zubin Karkaria Zubin Karkaria, CEO – VFS Global, and CEO – Kuoni Group, was appointed ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite’ (Knight of the National Order of Merit) by the President of the French Republic, François Hollande. The prestigious French award was… Continue reading President of France bestows National Order of Merit on Zubin Karkaria

Women were an important part of the ‘60s change. Nargis Wadia didn’t want to be an air-hostess or secretary, and her mother refused to let her become a teacher or doctor. “So she sent me to JJ College to do commercial art, and from there I got into advertising” says Wadia. In 1955 she joined… Continue reading Nargis Wadia and Indian advertising’s “Mad Men” years

Days after the late British rocker Freddie Mercury’s greatest champion, his mother Jer Bulsara, passed away quietly in her sleep in the UK, a wave of grief has hit Dadar’s Parsi Colony, where the extended Bulsara family continues to live. “I cannot believe Jer kaki is no more,” Jehangir, Freddie’s second cousin, told mid-day at… Continue reading Old relatives from Mumbai pay tribute to Jer Bulsara

“What better way to pass time?” Mirza has been holding down the mystery warehouse where Santa Fund boxes are packed and organized since September. He says the operation becomes “more high tech” with each passing year. by Laura BeestonStaff Reporter, thestar.com “The brains behind these operations have thought of everything now,” he tells me, “The… Continue reading Toronto’s Fred Mirza Volunteers On 74th birthday making Santa Claus Fund boxes

A day after the Tata group sacked Cyrus Mistry as chairman and appointed Ratan Tata as interim chairman, there is widespread dismay in the Parsi community at the way events unfolded. “This is a very sorry state of affairs for the community. It was not expected from somebody who is holding a stature this big.… Continue reading Mistry Vs Tata: Duel of ‘dikras’ has Parsi community shaken and stirred

The court of Additional Sessions and District Judge Mohammad Gulzar on Tuesday acquitted Kobad Ghandy, an alleged leader of banned CPI (Maoist), of all charges in a six-year-old case. He was booked by police in 2010 for delivering two “anti-national” speeches at Punjabi University. Article by Manish Sirhindi | The Tribune After his acquittal by… Continue reading Patiala court acquits Kobad Gandhy of all charges

Somerville College, Oxford Press Release THE CORNELIA SORABJI LAW PROGRAMME Cornelia Sorabji, the first female law student at Oxford in 1889 continues to provide a pioneering link between India and the University of Oxford. Cornelia Sorabji was not only Somerville College’s first Indian student, but was also the first Indian woman to study at any… Continue reading Cornelia Sorabji Law Program at Oxford