Kashmir takes initiative for digitisation of indigenous manuscripts
Friday - May 24, 2013, 05:01pm
In an endeavour to preserve the region's cultural heritage and pass the baton to youth, authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have undertaken a digitisation drive of rare manuscripts
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Rural women imparted advanced training in handloom, handicrafts in Manipur
Friday - May 24, 2013, 05:00pm
Manipur has rich and unique handicrafts and handloom tradition, and most women here are engaged in weaving. In order to facilitate skill development and empower women, the Shintha Handloom and Handicraft Centre has been imparting training to them.
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ARDA lays emphasis on quality education to improve lives of rural Assamese
Friday - May 24, 2013, 04:59pm
The Agency for Rural Development Action (ARDA) is playing a very important role in taking education to people in rural Assam.
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Doll making gains popularity among women in Tripura
Friday - May 24, 2013, 04:58pm
Women in Tripura are finding different ways of becoming financially independent. And, doll making is fast emerging as a preferred choice of profession among rural womenfolk.
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Youth get training to make bamboo products in Sikkim
Friday - May 24, 2013, 04:57pm
Bamboo handicrafts are not just an integral part of Sikkim's cultural matrix, but also contribute significantly to the state's economy.
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Kashmir sericulturists reap profits by shifting to bivoltine for better yield
Friday - May 24, 2013, 04:44pm
In an effort to revamp the silk industry and reap good profits, the Department of Sericulture in Jammu and Kashmir has shifted to bivoltine sericulture technology.
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Kashmir's famed countryside yielding to concrete
Friday - May 24, 2013, 01:41pm
Thanks to the skyrocketing land prices in the countryside, Kashmiri villagers are basking in their newfound financial affluence, caring little for the land of their ancestors that are being sold to buy modern-day luxuries.
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When travelling, at least try to get to correct continent
Friday - May 24, 2013, 01:39pm
Being in the travel trade sucks. You won't BELIEVE the fuss passengers make, just because some tiny mistake has been made which has led to them being taken to, say, the wrong country. Why quibble? Countries are countries. |
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Bangladesh's Shahbag movement still on, claim leaders, activists
Wednesday - May 22, 2013, 01:35pm
Directed at channeling the "patriotic spirit" of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a "secular youth force", the Shahbag movement, that peaked in February and March with tens of thousands of protesters and torchlight processions, is "not dead" and "lives on" sans the noise and the fury, its leaders and participating activists claim.
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India warmly remembers Rajiv Gandhi
Tuesday - May 21, 2013, 07:01pm
During the last month, there have been a number of articles in the media which recalled 1986, when about 200 Chinese troops occupied the Sumdorong Chu area in Arunachal Pradesh, some seven kilometers into Indian territory. Then, the Indian Army deployed troops at heights above the Chinese troops, convincing the latter to withdraw.
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