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India: National Green Tribunal Orders Closure of 739 Textile Factories
India's National Green Tribunal (NGT) circuit bench of Jodhpur has ordered the closure of 739 textile…
India Orders Closure of 893 Textile Units
Nearly 900 textile units in Sanganer near Jaipur in India have been ordered by the high court to cease…
India’s Myntra Moves to Mobile App-Only
India's biggest fashion e-tailer, Myntra, is shutting down its desktop website and moving to a mobile-only…
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World’s Largest Rayon Producer Announces Endangered Forest Conservation Policy
India-based Aditya Birla, the world's largest producer of rayon, announced Thursday its new policy to end any…
India: Illegal Tamil Nadu Dyeing Factories Demolished for Pollution
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) members demolished two textile dyeing factories Saturday evening…
India Raises Minimum Cotton Price
In a bid to dispel the mounting distress of its cotton growers, sparked by a slowdown in exports, India's…
India Doesn’t Have a Cotton Shortage
There is more than enough cotton in India to meet mill demand, according to Jon Devine, a senior economist at…
Are India’s Textile Mills Short on Cotton?
Textile mills in Telangana, India, are allegedly running out of raw materials, contradicting a Cotton…
India’s New Textile Policy Aims for $300B in Exports by 2025
India is working to position itself as a go-to in the global manufacturing market and its new National…
India Unveils New Foreign Trade Policy
India is putting a positive spin on its absence from the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)…
India’s Textile Industry Airs its Concerns
India's troubled textile sector isn't likely to receive a reprieve any time soon.
Uptick in Indian Apparel Exports in January
When the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed in April of 2013, killing more than 1,000 people…
India’s Textile Ministry Wants to Curb Cotton Exports
India's textiles ministry has proposed capping annual cotton exports in a bid to build a long-term reservoir…
India: Gujarat to Impose 5% Tax on Technical Textiles
India's Gujarat government's finance minister, Saurabh Patel announced last week in a state budget…
ILO: 17 Million Children Engaged in Child Labor in South Asia
Instances of child labor have often been buzzed about in low cost countries, but a new International Labour…