Author: GD Jasuja
India’s Currency Demonitization : B&W Or Technicolor?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Address to the nation on November 8, made a surprise announcement that the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 [...]
Innovative Functional Textiles Require Custom Testing Programs
There is a growing need for the industry to design special testing programs to create awareness of how to properly choose a test method, interpret the [...]
High-intensity Tremor Shakes India’s Textile Industry
On August 19, 2016, a sort of earthquake hit India’s largest home textile exporter to the US for the last many years. The intensity of the quake was s [...]
Garment Industry Shaken By Proposed Excise Duty in Union Budget 2016-17
The Union Budget 2016-2017 is a growth-oriented budget that aims to build on India’s strengths and to address the problems and challenges that are fac [...]
“Budget Expectations Are Going To Be Muted in 2016”
India has a tradition to treat the Union Budget as a big event of February every year. Citizens, at personal level, look forward to increase in income [...]
Is India Ready for Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Effluent?
The textile industry's hard realization that it was causing an unbearable health hazard to people's lives came in February 2011 when the Madras High C [...]
ITMA 2015 : Taken Over By Sustainable Technologies
ITMA 2015, held from 12 - 19 November 2015 at Milan, Italy, saw an unprecedented competition among exhibitors over various features related to what th [...]
Spinning Units Seek “Level Playing Field”
The textile spinning sector units, especially those engaged in export of cotton yarn, have expressed unhappiness with the Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2 [...]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), concluded on Oct 5 in Atlanta, is dubbed as the biggest trade agreement in history struck by the US and 11 other [...]
Wages & Working Hours in the Textiles & Clothing Sector
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is holding a Forum of all the stake holders (workers, employers & representatives of government, inter [...]