Month: August 2022

ODOP scheme in Uttar Pradesh

The Uttar Pradesh government’s ODOP scheme has plucked crafts from near extinction, given artisans guaranteed income and contributed to the state’s export growth through good marketing Lucknow,ISSUE DATE: Sep 5, 2022 | UPDATED: Aug 26, 2022 18:49 IST Artisans at the Common Facility Centre in Sitapur, a traditional hub of dhurries; (Photo: Maneesh Agnihotri) Two flower-shaped silver pieces, their simple and elegant central design speckled with lapis lazuli blue—the gulabi meenakari cufflinks and a matching brooch, the latter with a peacock motif, were chosen with care before Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted them to US President Joe Biden and US first lady Jill Biden at the G-7 summit in Germany in late June. Then there were the pieces of black pottery, polished to a subdued gleam and looking as distinguished as objets d’art from the palace of an ancient potentate. The recipient was Japanese PM Fumio Kishida. Others leaders like French president Emmanuel Macron, Italian premier Mario Draghi and German chancellor Olaf Scholz got ornate zari zardozi embroidered boxes, marble inlay table tops and handmade …

Mood Of The Nation poll: The Modi phenomenon

The prime minister’s personal popularity remains undented, compensating for his government’s shortcomings on the economic front. He now needs to address the pain points that the survey throws up, including inflation and unemployment New Delhi,ISSUE DATE: Aug 22, 2022 | UPDATED: Aug 18, 2022 12:45 IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi; (Photo: AP) That Narendra Modi is a rare political phenomenon not just on the Indian political firmament but also in the world is becoming increasingly evident. How else do you explain the Indian prime minister’s continuing popularity even as the approval ratings of other leaders of the democratic world, be it Joe Biden of the US, Emmanuel Macron of France, Olaf Scholz of Germany, Justin Trudeau of Canada or Fumio Kishida of Japan, have taken a plunge. Edited By: Arindam Mukherjee Published On: Aug 12, 2022 Source link

Telangana’s supersized secretariat

Driven by chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao himself, work on the new state secretariat is being finished at a feverish pace. a mammoth undertaking, it’s a fusion of the CM’s vision of tradition and modernity Chennai,ISSUE DATE: Aug 15, 2022 | UPDATED: Aug 5, 2022 15:48 IST KCR at the construction site of the new secretariat; (Photo: ANI) Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is a man in a hurry, hoping to meet a deadline. Top engineers of the state’s Road and Buildings (R&B) Department, whom he has tasked to build an imposing new state secretariat by Dussehra (October 5, 2022), are rushed off their feet too. Their work site is the 29.5 acre old Telangana secretariat complex. Ten blocks and 12 other small and big structures of the old complex, with a built-up area of over 900,000 square feet, were razed over a few days in July 2020; 14,000 truckloads of rubble taken away for recycling. From their war room—a 3,000 sq. ft security outpost, which is the last portion standing of the old …