Panasonic India launched its 100 thousand solar lantern project, a project to contribute 100,000 solar LED lights to people without electricity by 2018, the year which would mark the 100 th anniversary of the company. By the end of this ...
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Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi, Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas has assumed the additional charge as Union Minister of State for Textiles. Speaking on the occasion Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi said that her first priority after ...
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Mahindra & Mahindra's (M&M) Farm Equipment Sector has launched a new tractor manufacturing plant at Zaheerabad, Andhra Pradesh in India. The plant with a footprint of 60,000sqmt is built with investment of over INR3bn ($5.48m) and is ...
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In cotton season 2012-13, seed kapas prices in Andhra Pradesh fell below the MSP prices. Ministry of Textiles in consultation with State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Cotton Corporation of India put in place an effective mechanism ...
Shri P. Chidambaram, Shri Manikam Ramaswami, Chairman, TEXPROCIL said “The Budget has addressed many of the issues faced by the textiles industry”. The Budget has restored the “Zero duty excise duty route” for cotton ...
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The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
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Textile traders in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh will observe a one day strike on February 27 to protest against the state government’s decision to bring textiles under Sensitive Commodities list, the Andhra Pradesh ...
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Ramraj Cotton, a producer of shirts, dhotis and innerwear, based in Tirupur, a textile hub in Indian state of Tamil Nadu, intends to invest one billion rupees for setting up a new weaving unit in Sankagiri in Tamil Nadu during ongoing ...
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Sustenance of conducive business environment for the textile industry is the need of hour with respect to cotton policies, said Mr. S Dinakaran, Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA). SIMA Chief has said that after ...
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The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) of India has unveiled the first phase of the National Dairy Plan (NDP) in eight states of the country, including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and ...
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Japan-based utility vehicle maker Isuzu Motors is planning to build a vehicle manufacturing plant at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh in India with an investment of $185.8m. The company would utilise Hindustan Motors' Chennai car plant and a ...
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India is likely to produce 32.5 million cotton bales of 170 kg each during the current crop year 2012-13, according to the estimates released by the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF), formerly known as South India Cotton Association. ...
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The Indian textile industry, the single largest employment provider, employing over 91 million people particularly the rural masses and women and the backbone of country's economy has been passing through a worst crisis in its history ...
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Farmers in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have so far sold around 2.41 million bales(1 bale=170 kg)of cotton to the Cotton Corporation of India(CCI),National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited(Nafed)and ...
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Business Line reported that cement industry in Andhra Pradesh has been pushed into a state of uncertainty in 2012 by price volatility,demand blues and power cuts. The industry captains seem to be more worried about infrastructural ...
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