Scheme will upgrade skill, tools and provide credit support to traditional craftsmen; Cabinet also approved financial support for 10,000 e-buses in cities.
While initial allocation will be Rs 13,000-15,000 crore, MSME ministry will be the nodal ministry for the scheme. 18 trades have been identified to be covered, so far.
Over 70 top designers including Sabyasachi and Manish Malhotra have contributed clothes for an e-commerce sale in the Baradari fundraiser, which is endorsed by Kareena Kapoor Khan.
The textile ministry scrapped the two boards to create a 'leaner government machinery'. Activists however say it removed a platform where stakeholders could advise the govt on policy.
In ‘A woven life’, textile historian Jenny Housego chronicles her love affair with handicrafts & her journey as researcher and entrepreneur in Iran and India.
The two-and-a-half year battle for custody of the rasogulla saw West Bengal finally defeat Odisha Tuesday. The state was awarded the geographical indication (GI) tag for the ‘Banglar rasogulla’.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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