The Textiles Ministry today asked the handicraft exporters to give more emphasis on R&D to produce innovative products to become globally c...

The textiles sector is expected to generate additional 5 million jobs by 2017, taking the total employment in this field to about 50 millio...

To address labour shortage in the handicrafts sector, the EPCH has suggested that it be linking with the employment guarantee scheme, MNREG...

Keeping in view the shortage of skilled labour in sericulture, the Rural Development Ministry has agreed to integrate the workers in this s...

The Textiles Ministry said it will soon ask the Commerce Ministry to restore the export incentives under the FMS given to cotton and cotton...

Linking the programme under the MNREGA with the sector will help train about 15 lakh workers in the next three years, it has said.

The increase in cotton output in the next year is likely to be on account of good monsoon mainly in cotton growing states and increase in a...

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said a group of ministers has been set up to look into the proposal to levy export duty of 10% on cotton.

Textiles Ministry said it plans to bring a cotton distribution policy that proposes to impose a 10 per cent duty on shipments.

The Union Minister for Textiles Dr Kavuru Sambasiva Rao, has said that a road map should be drawn up by the cotton industry to support the ...

The Textiles minister informed that the Centre has sanctioned about Rs 490 crore as loan waivers for the weavers all over the country.

An agreement has been signed by National Textile Corporation and NHDC to promote handloom products.