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Mukherjee Nagar is often referred to as the UPSC Coaching hub for UPSC aspirants. The locality is dotted with a plethora of IAS coaching centers, libraries, bookshops, and hostels. This ecosystem has transformed the area into a vibrant and competitive hub, where students from all corners of the country come to chase their dreams of becoming ...
The Baluchari sari was one of the award winners for the main weaving styles amongst 34 National Awards for the years 2009 and 2010 presented by the Hon. President Pranab Mukherjee. [16] The Baluchari sari of Bankura was showcased at the India International Trade Fair organised at New Delhi.
Sanskriti Museums are a set of three museums namely, Museum of ‘Everyday Art’, Museum of Indian Terracotta and Textile Museum.It is housed within Sanskriti Kendra complex, at Anandagram, [1] an artist village complex, spread over eight acres, situated 10 km south of New Delhi, [2] [3] near Aya Nagar on Mehrauli–Gurgaon Road, on the outskirts of Delhi. [4]
Tangail sarees produced in Phulia are famous for the fineness of hand-woven booties and fabric. [4] Another saree from this handloom industry is Shantipuri Jamdani, which is quite popular in West Bengal. Based on the use of thread, three types of jamdani are produced, namely – cotton jamdani, half-silk jamdani and silk jamdani. [42]
Dhaka is an urban village in the North West district of Delhi, India, and is located near Kingsway Camp. It hosts 1500 houses and two chaupals and Park namely Prithvi Raj Chauhan Park. Much of the agricultural land in the village was acquired by the Delhi Development Authority post the partition of India to house migrants from Pakistan. These ...
MGF Metropolitan Mall is a shopping mall in Saket District Centre. It was developed by the MGF Group and has a gross leasable area of 200,000 sq ft (19,000 m 2). [2]This mall has Shopper's Stop as anchor store along with many other retail outlets catering to the Indian Wedding Market – Sarees, Lehnengas, Ethnic India & Formal Western Wear, Fine Jewellery (6 stores), Accessories, Banquets ...
In 2007, a Guinness world record - "most expensive silk saree" was created by Chennai Silks. [5] It was worth about $100,021; £50,679 (worth ₹41 lakhs) and features reproductions of 11 famous paintings by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. The main image is a reproduction of Raja Ravi Varma's Galaxy of Musicians. It took around 4760 hours to ...
The site for New Delhi was moved to Raisina Hill, south of Shahjahanabad, due to land acquisition costs and the desire to create new symbolism for the city, distancing it from the old city. [ 4 ] By the 1940s, Model Town's aristocratic landowners partnered with DLF to develop their estate into a neighborhood, becoming one of the best-planned ...