A miscellaneous petition filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the results of the May 29, 2022 Bombay Parsi Punchayet trusteeship elections for 7 seats alleges several irregularities occurred in the election and the results should therefore be “set aside" or "quashed.”

At the opening of couturier Asdeen Lilaowala's (Ashdeen) Bombay store at Vaswani House, 7 BEST Marg, Apollo Bhandar, Colaba

Hopes of the moribund Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) being revived were dashed when a meeting scheduled for October 2, 2022 was "postponed till further notice." The email from FPZAI president Armaity Tirandaz cited no reason for the postponement.

The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce will admit non-Parsis as associate members, noted the global organization's head, Capt Percy Master. Associate members will not have the right to vote or stand for office, Master clarified at the 19th annual general meeting on Sept 24

Former Justice Shahrukh Kathawalla addressing the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce members on entrepreneurship in the community following the annual general meeting on September 24, 2022

A one crore rupee grant to preserve the Avesta language will be granted to the Dadar Athornan Institute (DAI), stated Smriti Irani, minister of minority affairs addressing a gathering of anjuman representatives on October 30 at the DAI

A stormy FPZAI meet? The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) executive council and general body meeting to be held tomorrow and day after (21 and 22 January), will once again witness an effort to shift the office of the all-India body out of the BPP

Eighty-four of around 100 members of the Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman (IZA) favored the sale of 963 acres of the trust property in Palghar, stated a press note issued by IZA president Khodadad Irani (with microphone in photo) on March 29, 2023.

The Bombay Parsi Punchayet employees have taken to wearing red Gandhi topis to “protest against management’s decision to hold back some emoluments due to our financial situation,” explained BPP trustee Xerxes Dastur in a WhatsApp text message to Parsiana File photo

An e-mail scam in the name of prominent Parsis is being perpetrated by fraudsters. Emails are being sent out with the address being similar to the one used but with some alphabet changed or dropped. The message says the person is abroad for some family celebration

The incomplete, Godrej Baug ownership building that has been languishing over the last 15 or so years is to be taken down and reconstructed, state reliable sources. The sale of flats in the building were intended to raise funds for the financially bereft Bombay Parsi Punchayet.

After suffering a fall and fracturing her hips, Bombay Parsi Punchayet chairwoman Armaity Tirandaz says she would like to “step down as chairman” In her stead she has recommended the appointment of  “the next senior most trustee Viraf Mehta as chairman of the BPP

Anahita Desai, Hoshang Jal and Adil Malia left the weekly Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustees’ meet this evening as former BPP chairwoman Armaity Tirandaz was permitted to attend on Zoom. Following a fall in which she fractured both her hips, she is housebound

BPP trustees Anahita Desai, Hoshang Jal and Adil Malia are not against converting leave and license (L&L) agreements to tenancy but are awaiting “A proper written proposal for evaluation. The one line oral proposal that has been put forward has been shifting and changing”

The much delayed election of trustees of the Poona Parsee Panchayat is tentatively scheduled for October 20 this year, states a WhatsApp message from trustee Yezdi Motiwalla. He was the only member of the short-lived seven-member board elected on March 13, 2022 who did not resign

A total of 126 voters of the Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman voted for five candidates for the Bombay constituency. Of the six: Gaiv Irani (87), Hemavandh Namdarian (82), Khodadad Irani (91), Sarosh Irani (86), Vafadar Irani (91) won while Roozbeh Hormuzdiyar (47 lost).

Poona Parsi Panchayat Trusteeship election results: Seven elected candidates Marazban Irani : 340 Jamshed Karkaria 329 Hoshang Irani : 282 Homi Kaikobad: 236 Farokh Chinoy : 234 Tirandaz Irani : 217 Khursheed Mistry: 216

Dissent in the BPP The fragile peace that characterized the functioning of the BPP appears to be shattered. Three trustees, have written to chairman Viraf Mehta expressing their dissent and disapproval of the chairman’s style of functioning.

Neville Shroff addressing the Global Working Group on February 2 at the West End Hotel in Bombay

The Khareghat Colony Youth Association Trust Funds (KCYATF) has closed down the Dr Nellie Noble Medical Centre managed by them following an alleged assault on their president Ervad Cyrus Dastoor by former BPP chairman Dinshaw Mehta (see “Dissent in the BPP,” January 30, 2025).