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Bharat Tex 2026 Brings Rs 14,300-Crore Investment Commitments
More than 1.15 lakh people visited the third edition of Bharat Tex as the four-day global textile trade fair drew to a close on Friday.
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Wimbledon Towels, Which Go Viral Every Season, Are Made In India
While Indian celebrities serve fashion goals at Wimbledon, the tournament's Made-in-India towels have become coveted keepsakes and turned players into self-confessed 'thieves'
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How The Cotton Textile Trade In Mumbai Led To India's First Stock Market Crash
After the American Civil War ended in April 1865, British demand for Indian cotton declined sharply, triggering a major stock market crash in Bombay
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NDTV Ground Report: Surat Textile Traders Eye Export Boost After US Tariff Cuts
The industrial heartbeat of Gujarat, Surat, is witnessing a surge of optimism following the United States' decision to slash total tariffs on Indian imports from 50 per cent down to 18 per cent.
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US Tariffs To Hit Nearly Quarter Of India's Textile Exports In Next 6 Months: Experts
As the 50 per cent tariffs imposed by the US come into effect, close to one-fourth of India's textile exports may be severely impacted in the next 6 months.
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Amid US Tariffs, India Suspends Cotton Import Duties Temporarily To Aid Textile Sector
India has exempted import duties on cotton from August 19 to September 30, fulfilling the demand of industry groups who said exemptions would help make the sector more competitive.
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US Tariffs To Impact India's Textile Exporters In A Big Way, Say Experts
US President Donald Trump's announcement regarding the imposition of 25 per cent additional import duty plus penalty on goods imported from India will hit the country's textile exporters in a big way.
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Textile Sector Committed To Achieve $100 Billion Export Target By 2030: Minister
The textile industry is committed to achieving the $100 billion export target by 2030. Kashi and Tamil Nadu will play a major role in this, said Union Commerce and Textiles minister Piyush Goyal.
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India's Textile Industry Revs Up, Offering Good News For PM Modi
At Texport Industries' factories in south, thousands of mostly women workers are busy converting yarn and fabrics into T-shirts, shirts, spaghetti tops and kids' clothes for U.S. customers of Tommy Hilfiger and Kohl's Corp.
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"Reduce, Reuse, Restyle": Models Spread Awareness On Textile Pollution
In a first of its kind theme, 60 Mrs India contestants walked the ramp in refashioned old clothes in Chennai on Friday to raise awareness on textile pollution, promoting the motto of "reduce, reuse and restyle".
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'Deafening Noise, My Head Hurts': Why Surat's Textile Weavers Want To Return Home
Surat, Gujarat: Udhiya Behera sat in a windowless room in the textile hub of Surat, staring blankly at a small television as the ground shook with the noise of power looms on the floor below. For Mr Behera, though, this was a moment of late-evening calm in a room he shares with 35 others, just off a lane crammed with frenetic, sleepless looms. “I...
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How A Skill Training Programme Transformed The Life Of Jharkhand’s Dolly Kumari
By Lavanya Garg/IndiaSpend.org In 2014, Dolly Kumari, an outspoken 12th class passout, left her home in Jharkhand, journeying about 2,000 km south to a new job as a tailor at a garment factory in Bengaluru. Like most workers in this sector, when she first came, she did not think of staying beyond a few months. Today, over two years later, at 21, Ms...
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Affordable Housing Will Help ‘Exploited’ Workers In Tirupur: Activists
By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: A proposed new township for garment industry workers in textile hub of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu will tackle the problem of exploitation of workers housed in hostels on factory sites, campaigners said on Monday. In a first, the Tirupur Exporters’ Association, a trade body, has asked the Indian government to give the go-a...
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'Help, He Forces Himself On Us': Appeal From Tamil Nadu Mill Workers
A letter from six women at a spinning mill in Tamil Nadu, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help, exposes the widespread exploitation of women in the multi-billion-dollar textile industry, campaigners said. “He forces himself on us, constantly hugging us and squeezing our breasts,” the women write, describing the...
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How Sexual Harassment Has Scarred Women In India's Garment Industry
Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.
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Bharat Tex 2026 Brings Rs 14,300-Crore Investment Commitments
More than 1.15 lakh people visited the third edition of Bharat Tex as the four-day global textile trade fair drew to a close on Friday.
-
Wimbledon Towels, Which Go Viral Every Season, Are Made In India
While Indian celebrities serve fashion goals at Wimbledon, the tournament's Made-in-India towels have become coveted keepsakes and turned players into self-confessed 'thieves'
-
How The Cotton Textile Trade In Mumbai Led To India's First Stock Market Crash
After the American Civil War ended in April 1865, British demand for Indian cotton declined sharply, triggering a major stock market crash in Bombay
-
NDTV Ground Report: Surat Textile Traders Eye Export Boost After US Tariff Cuts
The industrial heartbeat of Gujarat, Surat, is witnessing a surge of optimism following the United States' decision to slash total tariffs on Indian imports from 50 per cent down to 18 per cent.
-
US Tariffs To Hit Nearly Quarter Of India's Textile Exports In Next 6 Months: Experts
As the 50 per cent tariffs imposed by the US come into effect, close to one-fourth of India's textile exports may be severely impacted in the next 6 months.
-
Amid US Tariffs, India Suspends Cotton Import Duties Temporarily To Aid Textile Sector
India has exempted import duties on cotton from August 19 to September 30, fulfilling the demand of industry groups who said exemptions would help make the sector more competitive.
-
US Tariffs To Impact India's Textile Exporters In A Big Way, Say Experts
US President Donald Trump's announcement regarding the imposition of 25 per cent additional import duty plus penalty on goods imported from India will hit the country's textile exporters in a big way.
-
Textile Sector Committed To Achieve $100 Billion Export Target By 2030: Minister
The textile industry is committed to achieving the $100 billion export target by 2030. Kashi and Tamil Nadu will play a major role in this, said Union Commerce and Textiles minister Piyush Goyal.
-
India's Textile Industry Revs Up, Offering Good News For PM Modi
At Texport Industries' factories in south, thousands of mostly women workers are busy converting yarn and fabrics into T-shirts, shirts, spaghetti tops and kids' clothes for U.S. customers of Tommy Hilfiger and Kohl's Corp.
-
"Reduce, Reuse, Restyle": Models Spread Awareness On Textile Pollution
In a first of its kind theme, 60 Mrs India contestants walked the ramp in refashioned old clothes in Chennai on Friday to raise awareness on textile pollution, promoting the motto of "reduce, reuse and restyle".
-
'Deafening Noise, My Head Hurts': Why Surat's Textile Weavers Want To Return Home
Surat, Gujarat: Udhiya Behera sat in a windowless room in the textile hub of Surat, staring blankly at a small television as the ground shook with the noise of power looms on the floor below. For Mr Behera, though, this was a moment of late-evening calm in a room he shares with 35 others, just off a lane crammed with frenetic, sleepless looms. “I...
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How A Skill Training Programme Transformed The Life Of Jharkhand’s Dolly Kumari
By Lavanya Garg/IndiaSpend.org In 2014, Dolly Kumari, an outspoken 12th class passout, left her home in Jharkhand, journeying about 2,000 km south to a new job as a tailor at a garment factory in Bengaluru. Like most workers in this sector, when she first came, she did not think of staying beyond a few months. Today, over two years later, at 21, Ms...
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Affordable Housing Will Help ‘Exploited’ Workers In Tirupur: Activists
By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: A proposed new township for garment industry workers in textile hub of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu will tackle the problem of exploitation of workers housed in hostels on factory sites, campaigners said on Monday. In a first, the Tirupur Exporters’ Association, a trade body, has asked the Indian government to give the go-a...
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'Help, He Forces Himself On Us': Appeal From Tamil Nadu Mill Workers
A letter from six women at a spinning mill in Tamil Nadu, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help, exposes the widespread exploitation of women in the multi-billion-dollar textile industry, campaigners said. “He forces himself on us, constantly hugging us and squeezing our breasts,” the women write, describing the...
-
How Sexual Harassment Has Scarred Women In India's Garment Industry
Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.
