Despite the recent stock market crashes around the world on the heels of China devaluing the yuan, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has said he doesn't believe that there's a financial crisis looming. "Based on what I've seen ...
Tirupur Exporters’ Association has welcomed today’s decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce the Policy Repo Rate by 25 basis points (bps) from 7.75 per cent to 7.50 per cent, and urged banks to pass on the benefit ...
Tags: Repo Rate
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, has reduced the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points from 8.0 per cent to 7.75 per cent with immediate effect. Consequently, ...
Tags: liquidity adjustment facility, banking system, Textile
Despite tough economic environment and rising input costs, the Rajasthan-based Banswara Syntex saw its bottom-line growing over two-fold in the quarter ended September 2013, helped by turnaround in exports in line with the rupee ...
Tags: Banswara, Lycra, RBI, readymade garments
India earned nearly US$ 15 billion through exports of textiles and apparel in the first six months of the current financial year 2013-14, according to the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). According to the ...
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, releasing the data on the apparel exports for the month of June stated that, “Apparel exports were to the tune of US D 1240 million in June 2013-14 with increase of 12.13 per cent against the ...
Tags: Indian Garment
Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC has written to Union Finance Minister, Shri P Chidambaram, on the demand of Garment Exports to give separate chapter for interest rates in export sector. In his letter Chairman AEPC wrote, “Reserve Bank ...
Tags: Export Sector, AEPC
Entire jewellery industry of India is highly upset with the government's recent measures to curb import of gold to contain the Current Account Deficit (CAD) as it (the industry) has already started feeling the impact of condensed supply of ...
The Hyderabad Jewellery, Pearl and Gem Fair (HJF), organized between 7th & 9th June, 2013 by UBM India ended with a satisfactory success note as expected. As we had mentioned two weeks back here that the prices of the gold in June still ...
Reserve Bank of India while announcing the Mid – Quarter Monetary Policy: March 2013, reduced the Repo Rate from 7.75% to 7.5% with immediate effect. In a reaction to the policy, Dr A Sakthivel, president said though he welcomed the ...
Tags: Garment exports sector, Garment exports, Garment sector
The 11th Five Year Plan growth targets for textiles sector were (a) cloth production to grow at the rate of 12 percent in volume terms; (b) clothing and apparel to grow at the rate of 16 percent in volume terms and 21 percent in value ...
Tags: fabric output, fabric, textiles sector
More than 100 cotton/man-made fibre textile mills have closed since 2009-10 in India, as per the data available with Textiles Commissioner. This was stated by Minister of Textiles, Mr. Anand Sharma, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, ...
Tags: India, Textile Mills, 2010
India’s Gem & Jewellery (G&J) sector witnessed another volatile year with weaker rupee and sluggish global economy adding more agony to its exports which declined by 17.09% in dollar terms and 4.65 per cent in rupee terms in 2012. ...
India Ratings’ outlook for cotton textiles remains negative to stable for 2013 on account of subdued demand, although margins are expected to benefit from softening raw material prices. The outlook for synthetic textiles remains ...
Tags: cotton textile, cotton, textiles, cotton prices
In a desperate move to restrict imports of gold, the Indian Government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are planning to further increase import duty on gold from prevailing 4% to 6%. It had quadrupled the gold import duty from 1% to 4% last ...
Tags: Government, India, Jewellery Industry