Category: News Briefs

Punjab’s Textile Park expected to attract Rs 50k cr investment
Punjab’s proposed Textile Park at Bathinda may attract over Rs 50,000 crores investment as over 24 industrial houses have evinced keen interest to set [...]

SDC India organizes ‘Colouring Textiles 2020’
Thane, India. – The Society of Dyers and Colourists, India (SDC India) organized a seminar titled ‘Colouring Textiles 2020: automate, optimize or peri [...]

555 textile mills closed as on October, 2011 : Textile Minister
In a question asked by Shri Rudra Narayan Pany, in Rajya Sabha on December 21, the Minister of State in the MoT, Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi, gave the foll [...]
Textile crisis in Tamil Nadu : Things have never been as bad for the country’s textile heartland
The cotton textile industry of Tamil Nadu is unique for housing much of the country's spinning capacity and also a significant part of downstream knit [...]

OCM India to spend Rs. 15 crore for brand image makeover
OCM India, the the 87-year-old textile company majority owned by WL Ross and Co, the US-based stressed asset management company, will invest Rs. 12-15 [...]

Why textiles industry has failed to perform?
Export incentives for cotton and yarn should favour domestic value-adding companies, rather than competitors across the border.
Export policy error [...]

Textile Minister Anand Sharma launches new logo & stores of NTC
Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma recently unveiled a new corporate logo reflecting the new face of the State-owned Nati [...]
GPCB cracks down on 6 textile units in Narol-Piplaj, Ahmedabad
In a major crackdown, the vigilance team of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has unearthed illegal discharge of hazardous effluents into Sab [...]

Anand Sharma Chairs 17th Convocation of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
NIFT Gains International Profile with Global tie ups
Shri Anand Sharma the Union Minister of Commerce, Industry & Textiles has asked fresh grad [...]
Year End Review of the Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India
21 New Textiles Parks to Bring Rs 9000 Cr Investments
Major Relief to Weavers through Loan Waiver and Comprehensive Package
The Indian Textiles [...]