Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Cotton, textiles, and apparel are critical agricultural and industrial sectors in India. This study provides descriptions of these sectors and examines the key developments emerging domestically and internationally that affect the challenges and opportunities the sectors face. More than four million farm households produce cotton in India, and about one-quarter …
Chandan Kishore Kant / Mumbai August 22, 2008, 5:32 IST The government is likely to increase the minimum support price (MSP) of cotton by 40 per cent or more for the cotton year 2008-09, according to official sources. At a time when inflation has touched 12.63 per cent for the …
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), in association with the National Productivity Organisation (NPO), has launched the second phase of energy audit of textile mills under the energy conservation programme for the textile industry. Akber Sheikh, Chairman APTMA, Punjab speaking on the occasion has said that there was potential for …
Chandan Kishore Kant / Mumbai July 22, 2008, 0:28 IST Gujarat, Maharashtra and MP contributed over 60 per cent of the total output in 2007-08. Poor rains are playing havoc with cotton production in central India
Vikas Sharma / Ludhiana July 21, 2008, 0:24 IST The lab will provide a push to textile units in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir as they will not have to depend on faraway facilties for reports. The in-principle nod by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises …
Incentives on export of basic raw material withdrawn NEW DELHI: Yielding to the textile industry's demand as also to rein in inflation, the Central Government has scrapped the customs duty on imports of raw cotton and withdrew incentives on export of the basic raw material with effect from July 8 …
PROTECTING GROWERS: Shankersinh Vaghela (left), Union Textile Minister and E.V.K. S. Elangovan, Minister of State for Textiles, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. BANGALORE: Addressing the media here on Monday the Union Minister of Textiles, Shankersinh Vaghela, said Indian exports of raw cotton, which amounted to nearly 100 …
In the present paper an attempt has been made to study the waste management strategies of textile industries in general and bleaching and dying industry in particular and suggest techno-economical line of treatment of the same. The TDS, chlorides and sulphates are the matter of concern in the treated effluent.
In the wake of constant rally in the prices of raw cotton, the textile industry has demanded an immediate ban on cotton exports as well as removal of 10 per cent Customs duty and 4 per cent additional Customs duty on the imports of the commodity for the current year. …
US, EU have flexibility to shield 65 sensitive textile products from immediate formula cuts. As members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are fighting out on the emerging Doha spaghetti trade deal with increasing number of flexibilities, India yesterday demanded that the existing system of preferences provided by the United …
Suman Tarafdar, Ruchi Kapoor Khadi, jute, bamboo, straw. Words gauranteed to strike terror in the heart of any fashionista, irrespective of how politically brave a face she puts on. And all this recent talk of eco-friendly fashion is not helping any. Till now. A brave, intrepid lot of designers have …
In view of rising prices of raw jute, the Indian Jute Mills Association has urged the textiles ministry to exempt raw jute from speculative futures trading. In a letter to the rriinistry, Indian Jute Mills Association (IJ-MA) Chairman Sanjay Kajaria said that futures trading in raw jute till 2004-05 had …
Leading Hong Kong clothing manufacturers are coming together to reduce the environmental impact of their factories in response to growing pressure from international retailers. The group, the Sustainable Fashion Business Consortium, is being launched today, World Earth Day. Many Chinese suppliers are being told to clean up operations from their …
on april 11, the Jodhpur bench of the High Court of Rajasthan ordered closure of 126 industries operating in non-conforming areas in Pali, infamous for pollution from its dyeing and printing industries. The court issued two orders in response to petitions filed by industry groups
As early as 1950, the union government had approved in principle the need to reserve certain items of cloth production for the handloom sector. Under the Handloom (Reservation of Articles of Production) Act, 1985, the textiles ministry issued an order stating that certain varieties in 22 items of cloth, including …
Bangladesh has begun producing environmentally friendly yarn from cotton waste to save foreign currency on imports, a local company said on Wednesday. "We have set up the factory to produce cotton yarn by using waste from ready-made garment products to export to foreign markets," said Anwar-Ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez, managing director …
In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the treatability of a combined tannery and domestic wastewater using lab-scale activated sludge reactor under extended aeration. Studies on the efficiency of the activated sludge reactor were carried out by varying the hydraulic retention time of 15, 20, 25 …
This paper draws on recent field work within South Asia and an extensive review of secondary data to examine the dynamics of cross border trade and investment in South Asia, exploring the potential for, and obstacles to, such trade through the lens of a sector that is salient throughout South …
Polyester is a magical material. It is found in just about everything, from clothes to artificial blood vessels. It is tough, retains its original heat-set shape, doesn't wrinkle easily or retain moisture. This is why both rich and not-so-rich happily wear it
Bob Crebas still introduces himself as "an old hippy.' But these days it is not recycled washing machines and bric-a-brac that the Dutchman trades in. He has swapped all this for fashion collections made from stinging nettles, designed and produced by his fast-growing business Brennels.nl. Four years ago, Crebas and …
