Jewellery inspired by north-eastern tribal fashion

October 6th, 2009 SRINAGAR - People in Srinagar are buying artificial jewellery instead of gold jewellery as it gives them more variety and is cheaper. "The big sets that you buy you just dump the things in the lockers.

October 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Talented people from Northeast are making their presence felt in various professions. Among them is fashion designer Imchatsung Imchen from Nagaland, who dazzled the audience with his collection at the Lakme Fashion Week held in Mumbai recently.

September 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Bibi Russell, a noted fashion designer from Bangladesh, showcased her new collection, which is inspired by the rural life on the second day of Kolkata Fashion Week here on Thursday. Russell's creations, which included sarees, salwar kurtas and western wear, were based on natural fabrics like cotton and silk.

September 3rd, 2009 PALADA - A museum in Tamil Nadu's Palada district provides an insight into the life of tribal communities living in Nilgiri Hills as it displays traditional tribal weapons, utensils, musical instruments, jewellery and costumes. The museum, established in 1983, is funded by the State Government to conserve and protect testimonies of tribal life.

August 7th, 2009 SILIGURI - Forget gold, wear imitation nick-knacks to look trendy and beat the recession. This is the latest mantra of ladies in West Bengal's Siliguri district, where non-gold and imitation jewelleries are fast disappearing from the shelves of an exhibition.

July 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - Glamour continued to rule the third day of fashion week in Bangalore on Saturday as models sashayed down the ramp donning exquisite creations by some of the best designers of the fashion world. This event marks the IT city's advent on the country's fashion map, after Mumbai and New Delhi.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Economic Survey tabled in parliament Thursday has sought the integration of diamond processing sector with jewellery manufacturing so as to boost exports. "Forward integration of the diamond processing sector to jewellery manufacturing, where the value addition achieved is the highest, will help in boosting the export performance once the existing economic downturn passes by, the survey said.

April 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - Fashion designer Narendra Kumar showcased his collections inspired by the gloomy days during the last year's Mumbai terror attacks at the ongoing Kolkata Fashion Week (KFW). According to the designer, his superb black and white collection was dedicated to the victims who lost their lives in the terror attack.

April 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The inaugural Kolkata Fashion Week opened Thursday with Bangladesh's international model-turned designer Bibi Russell showcasing her 'gamcha' (stole) and natural fibre collection. The designer displayed 41 of her creations made from khadi, cotton, silk, jute yarn fabrics, tribal fabrics, natural fabrics and 'jamdani'.

March 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee showcased his Fall/Winter 09 collection at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week here last evening. Sabyasachi's collection was like a storm of Indian traditional designs.

March 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - Latest hair styling and colour were unveiled at a fashion show in Bangalore. India's top models set the ramp on fire with trendy hairstyles and dyes like beige, copper and gold.

February 6th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Six armed men robbed jewellery worth Rs.3.5 million and Rs.150,000 in cash from a shop here Saturday, the police said. The incident occurred at around 6 p.m.

January 22nd, 2009 PANCHKULA - Four people drugged two employees of a Punjab-based jeweller here and looted jewellery worth Rs.3 million from them, a police officer said Friday. The employees of P.S.

January 7th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Four robbers looted Rs.2 million in cash and jewellery worth Rs.1.8 million from a shop in this satellite town of the national capital, the police said Thursday. According to the police, the robbery was committed in a jewellery shop in Shalimar Garden, an upscale market in Ghaziabad.

December 26th, 2008 SHIMLA - The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) branch slated to be set up in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district would start its admission process from August next year, an official release said Saturday. 'The NIFT would start its first batch from August next year,' the release said.