CRAFT BAZAAR DRAWS TOURISTS AT JAl-MAHOTSAV
Bhopal: Craft bazaar during 10-day Jal-Mahotsav at Hanuwantiya has become centre of attraction of tourists as well as common visitors. Tourists are constantly visiting craft bazaar and buying goods of their choice. Mainly, artifacts made of lac, terracotta, ironcrafts, and woodcrafts, Mandna are big draw. live demo of painting, papier-mâché, making of flowerpots, Batik prints, block prints, embroidery, artifacts of glass, loom makers and live pot making are also drawing tourists at the craft bazaar just in front of Hanuwantiya tourist complex. It has also a food zone where people are savouring dishes of their tastes. Tourism Development Corporation held water, air and land activities on Sunday, the third day of Jal-Mahotsav.
Today in Jal-Mahotsav
Famous Maihar Band will present sonorous tunes in the night of Monday February 15, 2016. Maihar Band is famous for its melodious and classic music tunes.
TRADITIONAl ARTISTS’ CRAFT BAZAAR AT GAUHAR MAHAl
Bhopal: Dastkari Haat Samiti President Jaya Jaitly said folk and traditional artists of Dastkari Haat Samiti who are currently holding a crafts bazaar at Gauhar Mahal, Bhopal have offered their art works done as per the Make in India lion to commemorate the opening of the Make in India event in Mumbai. Through these paintings they want to state that all heritage crafts be recognised as part of a wider view of Make in India. They want to be counted as important makers of beautiful and useful hand made works that reflect the ingenuity and creativity of India. We shall be most grateful if our friends in the media publish these for the attention of the wider public and the Honorable Prime Minister of India.
TWO killed, SEVEN hurt as jeep hits tree
Agarmalwa: Two youths were killed on the spot while seven others suffered injuries, three of them critically, when their jeep hit a roadside tree near this district headquarters on Indore-Jaipur road in the wee hours on Sunday. The accident occurred when all the people were returning from Indore after attending a marriage ceremony. The deceased were identified as Ravi (27) and Devendra Gwali (30). The injured were admitted to local hospital while critically injured were rushed to Ujjain for treatment.
Body found in canal
Jabalpur: One person’s corpse was fished out of a canal Sunday in Sunwara village, police said. Subsequently, the body was sent for post-mortem.
Two held with 3.8 kg ganja
Jabalpur: Two people were arrested with 38 kg ganja, worth about Rs four lakh in the international market, in Hanumantal police station limits in this cantonment town. On being tipped-off, a police team arrested Sagar-residents Naseer Pathan and Puranlal Vishwakarma near a hill on Saturday. A case was registered against the duo, police added.
two hurt in lorry-train collision
Ratlam: A disaster was averted when an explosion did not occur despite a passenger train heading for Rajasthans Nathdwara from Gujarats Okha colliding with a gas cylinders-laden truck that was crossing the tracks at 0100 hrs in the vicinity of Ratlam-Ajmer Sections Dodar Station, Railway sources said. Following an alert vis--vis the mishap -- that took place when the train was heading for Mandsaur after crossing this district headquarters -- police, fire brigade and ambulance personnel rushed to the spot and conveyed injured locomotive drivers Dinesh Chaturvedi and Rajendra Prasad Sharma to a Mandsaur-based hospital where they were admitted. As a consequence of the damaged locomotive remaining stationary on the track for a long while within a forest between Dodar and Kachnara stations, train movement between Ratlam and Ajmer remained affected for approximately a couple of hours. A relief train reached the spot from here. The 19330 Udaipur-Indore Express was halted at Mandsaur and its locomotive sent to the spot from where it pulled the passenger train to Mandsaur. However, several passengers left for Mandsaur and this district headquarters by road.
Condensed milk plant raided
Bhind: A chiller plant and a dairy, where spurious condensed milk was being made and sent within Madhya Pradesh and outside, have been raided in Phoop town. As news of impending searches leaked, most dairy managers closed their establishments therefore only two places were ultimately raided yesterday. Milk samples were taken; milk, three cans of hydrogen peroxide and two packets of detergent seized. The dairy manager fled and the place was sealed. A complaint was lodged to the Collector against Food and Drugs Administration employee Devendra Parmar who alerted the dairy managers, Naib Tehsildar Niranjan Rajput said here on Sunday.