The Karnataka government is planning to develop smaller textile parks at different places in Ballari, Chamarajanagar and Vijayapura districts, a government official said. Addressing a roadshow for Technotex 2015 in Bengaluru, K ...
Tags: textile parks, Textile Policy
Cargill India is set to commence production at its INR5bn ($78.8m) maize milling unit in Karnataka in June 2015. The plant, which is said to be the company's first maize unit in India, will be capable of processing around 800 tonnes of ...
Tags: bakery, confectionery, snacks, beverage, Agriculture
Fashion turned out to be the second top most category, next only to mobile and electronics, at the recently concluded three-day Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF 2014), organised by Internet giant Google. About 30-40 per cent of the ...
Home furnishings company Ikea, the first major single brand retailer to get FDI approval from the Indian Government, has announced a new ‘Make More in India’ initiative. The new initiative is aimed at inviting potential ...
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is actively procuring raw cotton from farmers at minimum support price (MSP) and it has procured approximately 13 lakh bales by November-end at various centres in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and ...
Tags: Raw Cotton, Cotton
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has planned to operate 343 procurement centres in 92 districts spread across 11 cotton growing states in the country, during the ongoing cotton season that began on October 1, 2014, Minister of State of ...
All India seed cotton arrivals have picked up to approximately 100,000 bales per day and the quality is good in all the states, informs the fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton Federation. At the moment and there is not much of ...
Tags: Seed Cotton, cotton crop, Textile
The rains have been abundant in most of the cotton growing areas. However, in certain parts of Rajasthan and Haryana, there may have been some damages to the cotton crop, informs the latest fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton ...
Tags: Cotton, rains, Cotton prices
The Indian fashion and casual lifestyle products selling e-commerce site Myntra has recently launched a new mobile phone shopping app for iPhone users. Aiming to cater to the growing fashion and lifestyle needs of the consumers and to ...
Tags: Myntra, New Shopping Ap, Accessories
Quoting trade sources, the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) says, if agro climatic conditions are favourable, Indian cotton production could reach above 400 lakh (40 million) bales in the 2014-15 season and that overall acreage may jump by ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton, Textile
Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), a Government of India undertaking under the Ministry of Textiles, is planning to set up its first ginning and pressing factory in Adoni, located at the border of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, in Kurnool ...
Tags: CCI, First Ginning Factory, Textile
Grasim Industries Ltd., a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that it has commenced commercial production at its Greenfield Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) plant at Vilayat village in Bharuch ...
The monsoon has set in over all the agriculture belts in India and has covered the water scarcity faced by the farmers in very little time. The cotton markets are seeing a clear drop in prices in spite of the very low good quality unsold ...
Tags: Indian Markets, Drop, Textile
India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first quarter ended June 30 of the financial year 2014-15 it produced 7.85 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 13.4 percent ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Apex industry body ASSOCHAM has submitted a 10-point detailed agenda for growth and development of Indian textile industry to the Textiles Minister, Mr Santosh Gangwar. "With textile industry in China reducing its spinning activities ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Textile