Talented craftsmen and artisans pass on their skills from one generation to another, orally and in a guru-shishya parampara.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must consider visiting Pakistan so that the progress made in backchannel negotiations on issues such as Jammu and Kashmir, Siachen and Sir Creek is not frittered away, according to Mr Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, a former foreign minister of Pakistan.

Frustrated at frequent adjournments by various courts, Ms Nisha Priya Bhatia, a former Research and Analysis Wing official, created a ruckus by stripping inside a courtroom in the Delhi high court, prompting the judge to order her to be taken for a mental check-up at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences.

After a rap by the Supreme Court, the Union Cabinet on Thursday took up the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks. PM Manmohan Singh himself raised the issue, saying the government’s stand must be spelt out after the court’s observations made media headlines.

The Jammu and Kashmir government will not allow hoisting of the tricolour by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha activists at the historic Lal Chowk here on Republic Day.
This was decided at a meeting chaired by chief minister Omar Abdullah in Jammu on Thursday. A statement said the government had directed the civil and police

In a move that will give more choice to mobile phone customers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday launched the nationwide mobile number portability (MNP) service.

The manager of National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), an NGO working in education sector, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hotel room in Kalkaji on Wednesday morning.

The Delhi police on Thursday arrested a Blueline bus driver for allegedly stealing diamonds and silver worth over `20 lakhs from the residence of an NTPC engineer.
The accused bus driver, Jitender Kumar, was close to the family of NTPC engineer, Deepak Kumar Dahiya.

Blame it on election year. The cash-strapped MCD may be struggling to reduce the debt of `2,867 crores but the councillors see no problem in adding another `400 crore bill by allocating funds under their quotas. On the other hand, the standing committee, while passing the final budget estimates for the year 2011-12, on Thursday predictably rolled back the proposed five per cent hike in property tax.