Leading industry body, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) expects the retail market in India will touch $1.2 trillion by 2020 and $2.1 trillion by 2025 from the present level of $550 billion, generating 10-12 million jobs in the next ...
Tags: retail market, Apparel
Textiles secretary SK Panda has expressed optimism about the future of the handloom sector. At a meeting in New Delhi to discuss the revival of handloom, with particular focus on increasing earning of handloom weavers, Panda asserted that ...
Tags: Handloom Sector, Textile Ministry
The government is working towards creating an ambitious grid programme in order to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of providing quality power to all by 2019, Minister of State with independent charge for Power, Coal and ...
Tags: Quality Power, Power Grid
India’s biggest intimate wear sourcing show Galleria Intima is moving to Delhi for its 4th edition to be held on 26-27 August, 2015. An initiative of Intimate Apparel Association of India (IAAI), Galleria Intima 2015 will see ...
The total sales of Khadi Gramodyog Bhawan, for the period from April 13 to April 28, 2015 increased over 60 per cent as compared to corresponding period of previous year, according to a government statement. The sales figure was ...
Tags: readymade garments, garments
Favourable macro factors such as urbanisation and the expanding middle class continued to support new retailer expansion across Asia Pacific in 2014. The number of new entrants rose to 464, an increase of 23 per cent year-on-year. ...
Indian online fashion retailer Saiesta.com has created a new collection of digitally printed, soft, smooth flowing, reversible scarves, inspired by multiple cultures across the world. Made using viscose georgette fabrics, the colourful ...
Tags: multiple cultures, The one-stop, Apparel
The Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with that country to arrest falling knitwear exports. Modi’s visit to Canada begins ...
Tags: General Preferential Tariff, Tirupur Exporters'Association, Apparel
The Union government has launched a new institution, Handicrafts & Carpet Sector Skill Council to promote skill development among artisans, craft persons and workers at grassroots level. The Council will operate from New Delhi and ...
Tags: Handicrafts, skill development, Carpet
The government of India and the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the textiles sector. The MoU seeks to strengthen bilateral cooperation in three fields: textiles and ...
Tags: Textile Sector, bilateral cooperation, textiles, clothing
Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) will be joining Inkjet India 2015, the fifth Digital Textile Conference being organised by Inkjet Forum India, as a knowledge partner. Mr Sumit Gupta, GOTS representative in India and Bangladesh ...
Washington and New Delhi are expanding their defense technology cooperation. On his visit to India, President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the extension and expansion of the bilateral Defense Technology and Trade ...
Groz-Beckert manufacturer of industrial machine needles will exhibit at the Garment Technology Expo (GTE) to be held from February 28 to March 3, 2015 in New Delhi at booth A-6. The GTE is regarded as India’s biggest exhibition for ...
Inkjet Forum India is launching a practical training workshop series for the digital textile industry aimed at increasing the understanding and implementation of digital colour matching and profiling standards. The first series of these ...
Tags: International Digital Textile Confe, digital colour matching, Textile
Inkjet Forum India, which works in the field of educating the textile industry about digital textile printing, will be joining the Global Textile Technology & Engineering Show (GTTES 2015), and exhibiting as a media partner at Booth F-90, ...
Tags: digital textile printing, industrial printing, Textile