Category: News Briefs

India to set up warehouse for handicraft exporters in Latin America
The Union Minister of Textiles Dr. K Sambasiva Rao has assured the handicraft exporters for all his government's assistance to open a warehouse for ha [...]

Textiles Minister holds Interactive Meet with exporters from Rajasthan
Textiles Minister holds Interactive Meet with exporters from Rajasthan in Jaipur on Export Promotion of Handicrafts, Carpets, Wool, Textiles and Allie [...]

Textile Minister Inaugurates Revived New Bhopal Textile Mills of NTC
Production to go UP From 5000 Kgs to 14000 Kgs Per Day
The Union Minister of Textiles Dr. K Sambasiva Rao recently inaugurated the New Bhopal Texti [...]
Wool Importers Get Relief on Quarantine Issue
Value Added Woolen Products to Benefit
The wool importers have been complaining of difficulty and harassment on quarantine issue for the last three [...]

TEXPROCIL Releases Benchmarking Study of Textile Production Costs
The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council ( TEXPROCIL) has carried out a Benchmarking Study of Production Costs in India vis-à-vis Bangladesh, Chin [...]

Fire destroys 5 storied textile factory in Ludhiana
1 dead, 6 injured; it took 18 hours and 40 fire tenders to douse flames
Ludhiana : One person died and six others were injured when a fire broke out [...]
45 lakh people have lost jobs in the textile sector : AEPC
About 45 lakh people in the textile sector have lost jobs in the last two years mainly due to global economic slowdown and problems at domestic front, [...]
Tirupur Process Houses Face Power Shortage
The textile fraternity is furious that the government increased the power tariff multi-fold but has not been able to supply quality power round-the-cl [...]
Restructured TUFS extended for 2012-2013
The domestic textile industry saw hardly any investment in 2011-12 because of several problems, says the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Texti [...]

MoT lists Govt. Measures Supporting Textile Industry
Following information was given by Smt.Panabaaka Lakshmi, Minister of State for Textiles in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on May 31, 2012.
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