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Fibre2Fashion
a day ago
- Business
- Fibre2Fashion
India's MP state signs MoU with BSL to boost textile growth
India's Madhya Pradesh (MP) government recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Brand & Sourcing Leaders' Association (BSL) to boost investment in the state's textile sector. Under the MoU, a joint action plan will be developed in areas like sourcing, production, logistics, design, and skill development, an official release from the state public relations department said. India's Madhya Pradesh recently signed an MoU with the Brand & Sourcing Leaders' Association to boost investment in the state's textile sector. A joint action plan will be developed in sourcing, production, logistics, design and skill development. A task force will ensure time-bound execution focused on PM MITRA Park, cluster-linked support, road shows and export promotion and ESG-linked investments. A task force will be formed to ensure time-bound execution focused on PM MITRA Park, cluster-linked support, brand engagement road shows, export promotion and investments linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, it said. State chief minister Mohan Yadav held a roundtable with BSL representatives and assured them full support in investment, production and employment. The upcoming PM MITRA Park in Dhar district will take the state's textile sector to new heights. Even before the ground-breaking ceremony of the park, letters of intent for investments worth over ₹160 million have been received, the chief minister said. "So far, the state has attracted investments of more than ₹3,513 crore in the textile sector," he added. The state's strong base in organic cotton, modern textile-garment capacities, abundant green energy, stable policy environment, and swift administrative decision-making culture provide the confidence that attracts global brands to invest in the state, according to the release. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
Scotsman
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Fringe theatre reviews: Dregs The Court 2 + more
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Dregs ★★★★ Scottish Storytelling Centre (Venue 30) until 24 August (even dates) One Saturday night in Glasgow, a man strays into a club for magical creatures on the banks of the Clyde. Sprites are on the dance floor, gnomes are doing shots at the bar, and out the back, he meets a selkie staring sadly at the water. She has been stranded in the human world after being abandoned by the lover for whom she left the sea. After she saves the man from a fix of his own, they set off together on an odyssey through the city to help her get back to the water. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Co-writers and performers Emery Hunter and Bobby Bradley have created a fresh take on an old myth. Hunter, who is Hard of Hearing, communicates in BSL and Bradley in English, not only making the performance completely bilingual, but embodying the difficulties these two beings have in understanding one another. Glasgow is splendidly evoked as the pair make their surreal journey through the 'symphony of Saturday night' on Sauchiehall Street, a place of drunks and hen parties, to consult the Fates in a wee bar down a side street. Somehow, this mix of magic and the strangeness of everyday life seems to fit the city perfectly. For those in the audience who don't use BSL, the success of the piece depends on Bradley communicating through his responses the sense of what the selkie is saying, sometimes in quite long speeches. This doesn't always happen, and there are times when the non-BSL audience shares his frustration as we struggle to keep up. But that doesn't stop it from being an inspired idea, as well as a clever updating of the selkie myth, powerfully rooted in the real. Susan Mansfield Help Me!!!! ★★★★ Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad theSpaceTriplex (Venue 38)/theSpace @ Niddry Street (Venue 9) until 23 August You've got to feel for Levi. He's died with unfinished business and, even though he's managed to spirit himself back to some semblance of life, being a ghost - as we all know - he's unable to make a sound. It's just as well, then, that he's such a vivid and effective mime that he can deploy his audience to solve his problems, search for objects and solutions, and ultimately put his soul to rest - or, perhaps, turn it in a different direction entirely. Help Me!!! is perhaps what it might feel like to be trapped in an escape room with an excellent mime performer for company. As creator/performer Leo Lion gets our confidence and sympathy, the demands he makes become increasingly intricate: sit back as a passive observer if you like, but get involved and you'll find yourself guessing codes, searching for items and piecing together clues from the debris strewn across Lion's set, all under his wordless (and sometimes exasperated) silent direction. It's clever stuff, and he's very funny in his spontaneous interactions. The audience participation, too, is genuinely welcoming: Lion manages to instil a sense of community remarkably quickly among late-night show-goers. He's a warm, encouraging presence, with a perpetual hangdog neediness as if he's constantly about to burst into tears, and a remarkable way of tapping quickly into a universal language of signs that surely anyone would grasp. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad His overall game is nicely structured into stages and objectives, so we can easily chart where we're going, and if some of the tasks ultimately feel a little simplistic, then Lion's overriding aim, surely, is to break down barriers and encourage connection. In those terms, Help Me!!! is an hour of charm, humour and a small dose of mental gymnastics. David Kettle The Court 2 ★★★ Braw Venues a Hill Street (Venue 41) until 24 August Edinburgh Little Theatre's interactive courtroom dramas are a very solid template and while this 'more-of-the-same-but-different' sequel can sometimes feel rather dry, the audience element still makes this case interesting enough. Clearly inspired by the long-running 1970s ITV series Crown Court (even using its theme tune, Leoš Janáček's 'Sinfonietta') this recreates a court case, here with seven members of the audience as jurors. The rest of the audience ('the public gallery') is also given a chance to quiz both the suspect and the plaintiff after their testimonies. This time out, it's a private criminal case brought by the widow of a businessman who fell to his death during a walk with his associate in the Cairngorms. The actors cope well, particularly under questioning, which is important as there's no evidence other than their testimony. It's – probably very necessarily – simple stuff with no big dramatic moments (Anatomy of a Fall this is not), and the case does seem to boil down to who you choose to believe. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad There's no correct solution, but it's interesting to witness how many members of the public are willing to find someone guilty of murder on the strength of circumstantial evidence alone. Rory Ford The Green Knight (But It's Gay) ★★ Scottish Storytelling Centre (Venue 30) until 24 August It's a silly show, Niall Moorjani tells a somewhat reticent audience at the start of this charming but childish one-man-and-his-demoralised-guitar-player 'queer version' of the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The original poetry is more successful than the direct-to-audience chat and repetitive puns delivered with demands for applause. A juxtaposition of different kinds of masculinity through time – including a laddish Round Table mob – threatens to turn things into something more sophisticated, but with creative comedy character hats, dousings of double-entendres and the intimate feel of something, at times, made up on the spot, the quest for heartfelt emotion is as challenging as finding the Holy Grail. Sally Stott The Brilliance Of Broken Glass: Button ★★ Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) until 25 August Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad This solo show from Brooke – known as Brooke Being Brooke on her Instagram – largely involves the one-name NYC-based comedian and storyteller recounting a difficult medical odyssey and contemplating the ways in which it has shaped her identity. It is a rollercoaster ride of misdiagnoses, surgeries and post-op complications that should offer resonant insights on medical malpractice, on the American healthcare system, and on how to roll with life's unexpected punches – but none of that can be found amid a scrappy staging, a dense text, a garbled delivery, and glib, self-centred sentiment. Fergus Morgan 20/20 ★★ theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (53) until 23 August This student production of a time travelling Orpheus and Eurydice, who spend most of the play as a 21st-century guitar teacher and pupil, has a lot of charm and, in this baking hot room today, the young cast in their fabric-rich costumes are doing an admirable job of keeping the energy going. The lofty delivery of some of the dialogue feels overly poised and the circular structure is more of a concept than a fully developed play, but it's a fun mash-up, the highlight of which is Orpheus, looking like a youthful Jarvis Cocker, singing 'Half the World' away 'for Oasis', who are performing elsewhere in town tonight, somewhere presumably more ventilated. Sally Stott
Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Govt inks MoU with global apparel giants to drive textile growth
Bhopal: CM Mohan Yadav on Thursday held a roundtable with international sourcing heads of leading apparel brands, sealing an MoU with the Brand & Sourcing Leaders' Association (BSL) to boost investment in the state's textile sector. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Addressing the gathering at CM House here, he said the state had put PM Narendra Modi's Five 'F' Vision - Farm to Fibre, Fibre to Factory, Factory to Fashion, and Fashion to Foreign - into practice, and was on course to become a global hub for apparel and textiles. The upcoming 'PM Mitra Park' in Dhar district will take the state's textile sector to new heights. The state's strong base in organic cotton, modern textile/garment capacities, abundant green energy, stable policy environment, and swift administrative decision-making culture provide the confidence that attracts global brands to invest in the state. The CM said 'Made in MP - Wear Across the World' was not just a slogan but an industrial mission of the state, aimed at ensuring competitive access for MP's products in global markets. "The textile and garment sector is empowering farmers, women, youth, and the underprivileged," Yadav said. The CM, referring to the first meeting with the group held in Delhi on July 31 as the beginning of the 'journey from resolution to success', said Thursday's meeting in Bhopal was an opportunity to translate that resolution into concrete results. He said the PM Mitra Park was being established on 2,177 acres in Dhar, and a groundbreaking ceremony for the park will soon be performed by Modi. Even before the groundbreaking, letters of intent for investments worth over Rs 16,000 crore have been received. "So far, the state has attracted investments of more than Rs 3,513 crore in the textile sector," he said.
Time of India
6 days ago
- General
- Time of India
BSL mulls handover of Bokaro zoo to govt for better upkeep
1 2 Bokaro: The Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) will hand over the operations of Jawaharlal Nehru Biological Park, popularly known as Bokaro Zoo, to the state department of forests, environment and wildlife for improved management and better animal care. The zoo, set up in January 1989, is current facing manpower shortage, absence of a full-time vet and a steady decline in its animal population, prompting the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) to raise several red flags. Manikant Dhan, BSL's chief of communication, said, "To take the proposal forward, a five-member technical committee has been constituted. The panel will be chaired by the Bokaro divisional forest officer and will have district veterinary officer, BSL general manager in-charge (horticulture) and another official." Spread over 127 acres, the zoo has leopards, deer, birds and other endangered wildlife and avian species. Managed by BSL, the zoo is a popular getaway spot in the city and has various joyrides. Questions were raised about the zoo's upkeep after a female leopard died in June this year. The zoo's lone white tigress died of heart failure in 2022 while the only lioness died of a cardiac arrest in 2020. A year earlier, another leopard had died. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like These Are The Most Beautiful Women In The World Undo The zoo also lost multiple tigers, lions, deer, EMU and others due to illness and old age in recent years. BSL management,for the betterment of the zoo and its animals, has urged the state department of forest, environment and wildlife now to take over operations. Officials are hopeful of strengthening staffing, improving veterinary facilities, and reversing the decline in animal numbers to restore the facility as a model wildlife park. Stay updated with the latest local news from your city on Times of India (TOI). Check upcoming bank holidays , public holidays , and current gold rates and silver prices in your area.
Belfast Telegraph
12-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
LGBT community raises thousands for ‘tireless' drag performer's legal battle in wake of children's storytelling row
During the event Lady Portia Di Monte, whose real name is Marcus Hunter-Neill, read storybooks to children, while Miss Dora Belle interpreted the stories into British Sign Language (BSL).
