Category: Handicraft

Torino known for more than the Olympics The Shroud of Turin has given Italian city renown for 428 years By Richard N. Ostling Deseret Morning News - Feb 03 Associated Press       Just as Salt Lake City was famous long before the 2002 Winter Olympics because of its tie to The Church of Jesus Christ […]

SLHB to promote eco-friendly shopping bags Daily News by Irangika Range The Sri Lanka Handicraft Board (SLHB) will set up three plants to manufacture eco-friendly shopping bags as an alternative for polythene bags. This will be utilised in every Laksala branch in the country to offer its goods to customers. Under this project, it has […]

Assam Rifles empowers Tripura villagers with skilled training New Kerala By Pinaki Das, Agartala : Assam Rifles better known as the ‘Friends of the Hill People’, for decades have been actively engaged in providing security and socio-economic services to people in the northeast region. The force recently adopted two villages in Tripura, providing hope to […]

Shroud Makes Turin a World-Renowned City ABC News Feb 1, 2014 — Just as Salt Lake City was famous long before the 2002 Winter Olympics because of its ties to the Mormon Church, so the 2014 host city has been renowned for its own religious connection: For the last 428 years it’s been home to the […]

Aniolga:Pinoy Products: Hala Bira! Sun Star By Mera Joy Aniolga PATRONIZE your own product! A command given to people to show their nationalism to their country. The simple act of buying products produced locally is such a big help to our economy especially now that it is down in the dumps. We Filipinos are usually […]

Manoj Shrivastava is DPR By Our Staff Reporter Central Chronicle Bhopal, Jan 30 In the first major reshuffle in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, 36 officers of the Indian Administrative Services were shifted from their current postings. Senior IAS officer Manoj Shrivastava has been posted as the Director, Public Relations Department. Iqbal Ahmed, commissioner Rehabilitation […]

Pioneer makes his final breakthrough Norval Morrisseau breaks race barrier at National Gallery Ottawa Citizen Paul Gessell, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, January 29, 2014 An ailing, old man in a wheelchair will make history Wednesday when he arrives at the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Canada and officially ends a long history […]

JOY GOSWAMI The Telegraph Poet Books and food need not be mutually exclusive. Though I personally do not eat at the Book Fair, I find nothing wrong with eateries on the fairground, especially since it is so large. I have never thought of the worlds of music and art as separate from that of books. […]

Priority Sectors to Boost Philippine Labor Competitiveness Eyed MANILA, Jan 31 Asia Pulse – The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has revealed its 23 priority sectors for development from 2014 to 2010 to ensure the competitiveness of the country’s human resources in the local and global markets. Labor and Employment Secretary Patricia A. […]