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For the first time in it's history, the Punjab International Trade Expo (PITEX) featured Kashmiri Women's artisan work as a part of it's Studio Saksham Initiative, focusing on the empowerment of rural women. (Express Photo)

Kashmiri women artisans debut at Amritsar’s annual Punjab International Trade Expo

December 08, 2025 2:23 pm

The Rouble Nagi Art Foundation has set up a PITEX stall showcasing Kashmiri women artisans' work as part of its Studio Saksham initiative to make rural women capable, confident, and financially independent.

In pre-liberalisation India, Camlin delivered a quiet reassurance about India’s own capability

July 25, 2024 10:47 am

It was not about any manufactured made-in-India nationalism. The allure of the foreign still ran strong. But there was something solid and dependable about it that made it a stalwart.

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Power cuts help revive Syrian tradition of public bathhouses

February 03, 2022 1:45 pm

Bakri is one of the oldest bathhouses in Damascus, established in 1069. Instead of tourists, it is now residents who come in more frequently.

CAG for early commissioning of POLNET in J-K

April 14, 2010 3:34 pm

Pulling up J-K Police for shortfall in procurement of equipment and delay in modernisation process,CAG has recommended early commissioning of satellite-based integrated police communication network (POLNET).

Xu visit puts spotlight on China-US military ties

October 24, 2009 10:02 am

China's second-highest ranking officer kicks off a week-long visit to the US amid signs that testy military relations between the superpowers are thawing.

J&K handicraft sales rise 15% in H1 of 2009-10

October 21, 2009 4:58 pm

Bucking the recessionary trend,handicrafts from Jammu and Kashmir has seen 15 per cent rise in their sales in the first half of the current fiscal.

Plan panel reviewing airport development policy framework

May 18, 2009 11:50 pm

Terming the policy followed by mini-ratna Airports Authority of India for the modernisation of around 35 non-metro airports...

Meltdown wont affect defence expenditure,says Antony

February 10, 2009 11:08 pm

Defence Minister A K Antony and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal F H Major have expressed anguish over the slow pace of development of indigenous technologies and modernisation in the aerospace sector....