The Union textiles ministry has wound up two advisory panels that were the main forums where artisans could influence central policies but which had fallen into inertia for more than a decade. The Al...

Fashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra on Tuesday said that he would love to collaborate with the weaving community of Odisha to create products. “Odisha has lots and lots of emerging talents and it is on...

Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty will lead a 12-hour hunger-strike on Monday to appeal to traders at a makeshift handicrafts market near the campus gate to remove their stalls and allo...

Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (Ormas), which works under the state panchayati raj department, will set up 380 kiosks to organise the national level Pallishree Mela at this year’s Ba...

Kauna reed products made by local artisans of Manipur and other states of the region have been put up for sale through online platforms like Amazon and others under the livelihood propulsion and suppo...

"The Department of Labor is going to fix all that, with the idea of setting the prevailing wage floor at the 50th percentile so these people will be in the upper end of earnings, so we''r...

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Women from Kuiani village in Bodma block of East Singhbhum couldn’t contain their excitement when they learnt that their handmade products would now be used by foreign tourists.LifeCraft — a Jamsh...

For the second year in a row, Hastashilpa Mela is being held opposite Eco Park’s gate 1. Ministers Amit Mitra and Swapan Debnath came down for the inauguration on Wednesday and the fair will continu...

If Eco Park registered slightly less footfall this season than last year, Hastashilpa Mela, opposite Gate 1, made up for it. Together they drew lakhs of visitors and thousands of vehicles, even leadin...