Chinta Mohan looking at a bedsheet on display at the Handicrafts expo in Tirupati on Wednesday.TIRUPATI: The ‘All India Handloom and Handicrafts Exhibition 2009’ got off to a colourful start at the Thyagaraja Mandapam hall here on Wednesday.The exhibition is being organised by ‘Kala Bharathi’ Member of Parliament (Tirupati) Chinta Mohan inaugurated the mela. He not only appealed to the public to make...
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Atul Kumar Garg today sentenced Sandeep Rawat to 15 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a mentally weak minor girl.On April 12, 2008, while the victim was sleeping with her grandmother at her residence in New Kondli in east Delhi, Rawat tied the mouth and feet of the victim with the bedsheet and raped her....
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Rani Mukherji’s television debut seems to have gone almost unnoticed. She’s now a judge in Sony’s(DPL), along with Shiamak Davar; but for all the attention she’s got — or the show, for that matter — she may as well have been judging a local Ghatkopar dance competition.where she arrived with much fanfare, and everyone on the set behaved as if some goddess had descended from the heavens (except that...
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Mayor M. Bhaskaran will inaugurate at 4 p.m. on Tuesday an exhibition of Gujarat handicrafts, handloom and jewellery at the CSI Hall here.Handloom exhibits will be sold at a government-sponsored rebate of 20 per cent. Handicrafts would have a rebate of 10 per cent, K. Arunachalam, Manager of Gujarat Emporium, said.The exhibition, organised under the development scheme of the Union government to improve...
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Beniyabag Park wore a colourful Mini India look on Sunday that marked theconclusion of 10-day Gandhi Crafts Fair in the region.While a numberof stalls, featuring a variety of handicrafts, including woollen and silkgarments, bedsheets, mattresses, furniture and crockeries, pulled a hugegathering on the day, a number of foreign visitors also thronged the fair to buytraditional articles on the concluding...
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What about the common man's house when the house of Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken in the national capital is not safe? Three unidentified masked men made an abortive attempt to rob a stereo from a car parked inside Maken's residence in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden on Friday morning after locking the guard in a bathroom, police said today.Around 0400 hrs, when the guard, named Vipin,...
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Abhilasha Ojha goes shopping for bed linen and finds that the branded market is flooded with incredible options, including limited edition collections, zany motifs and quality that redefines comfort.I n an episode of Sach Ka Saamna, the desi version of Moment of Truth, anchor Rajeev Khandelwal asked his guest if he was guilty of stealing bed sheets from hotels? The guest replied in the affirmative....
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The headline for this story does not belong to us. And no it does not belong to a condom brand, an underwear ad, a deodorant commercial, or a bedsheet maker. It’s a headline from a print ad for the biscuit brand — Britannia Bourbon. And Britannia Bourbon is not alone. Increasingly, brands from categories where you would not expect such expression, are talking a language that is when not screaming then,...
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Mata Amritanandamayi Math has taken charge of relief activities inflood-affected districts in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. In Karnataka, a teamof brahmcharis and devotees has taken up relief activities in Bijapur, Bagalkot,Belgaum and other districts.There is a medical team of 10 doctors,paramedics from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi,supported by the telemedicine van...
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convicted member of the radical left-wing Red Brigades group has killed herself in a Rome jail, officials say.She was serving a life sentence for the murder of an Italian government adviser on labour reform in 2002. An inquiry into her death is now under way.Melazzi's lawyer said her client had serious psychiatric problems and had petitioned the courts for years to have her transferred to hospital.Melazzi...
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