Dehradun: The Bageshwari charkha has been in use since 1926 to spin wool, which is one of the main sources of income for many rural people of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. A regular hand-operated ...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday tried her hands on a charkha at 'Panchayat Raj Mahasammelan' in Chhattisgarh's Kanker region. The grand old party's General Secretary is currently on a ...

Seventy years since Independence, wheels of the charkha still spin peace and patriotism in these households across India Seventy years since Independence, wheels of the charkha still spin peace and ...

A 1946 picture of Mahatma Gandhi with his Charkha (spinning wheel) in the foreground is among the 100 most influential images of all time, according to a compilation by Time magazine of “images that ...

Spinning charkha for one hour daily may improve concentration, multi-tasking abilities, patience and mind-body coordination of children and youth, a study claims. The study conducted by the Brain ...

KVIC has issued notices against 600 entities in India and three entities in the International market for misusing these symbols and indulging in unfair trade practices in the recent past In a bid to ...

The charkha, the age-old contraption used to spin yarn manually, has got itself a makeover, courtesy technology that harnesses the sun's rays into energy, which, in turn, runs the machine. Ranchi: The ...

London: Mahatma Gandhi's 'charkha' which he used in Yerwada Jail during the 'Quit India Movement' was on Tuesday sold at an auction in the UK for a whopping 110,000 pounds, nearly double the expected ...

A portable teak charkha belonging to Mahatma Gandhi that he used while in Yerwada prison, and in 1935 gifted to the American Free Methodist missionary Reverend Dr. Floyd A. Puffer (1888-1965) was ...

New York: A 1946 picture of Mahatma Gandhi with his Charkha (spinning wheel) in the foreground is among the 100 most influential images of all time, according to a compilation by Time magazine of ...

Mahatma Gandhi used the 'charkha' as a symbol of self-reliance and to send out the message that India can make its own cloth and does not need the empire to do it. Mahatma Gandhi's 'charkha' or ...