PM Employment Generation Programme generated over 11.13 lakh jobs in last 3 yrs: GovernmentThe PMEGP is a credit linked subsidy scheme, for setting up of new micro-enterprises and to generate employment opportunities in rural as w...
18 Jul, 2018, 09.35 PM IST
How to tell cotton from khadi: A court case tries to solve the dilemmaKVIC has filed a case against Fabindia in the Bombay HC, seeking damages of Rs 525 crore for allegedly selling factory-made cotton garments...
15 Jun, 2018, 06.50 PM IST
Freedom@70: How Khadi is getting a new spinKVIC has signed a memorandum with the National Institute of Fashion Technology for design development and training at different khadi insti...
13 Aug, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
MSME approaches Finance Ministry to exempt Khadi from GSTAt present only Khadi yarn produced in the sector is exempted, while other Khadi products attract a 5 per cent Goods and Services Tax levy.
10 Aug, 2017, 09.27 PM IST
Khadi yarn, Gandhi topi, national flag exempt from GSTAlso chandan tika, unbranded honey and wick for diya have been exempt the new indirect tax regime, which is scheduled to kick off form July...
04 Jun, 2017, 07.03 PM IST
After yoga, PM Narendra Modi now wants to make khadi an international brandAfter the success of take-yoga-global campaign, it’s now the humble Khadi that PM Modi wants to take across borders as India peddles its so...
23 May, 2017, 10.13 AM IST
As branded as it can get: Raymond launches India's first branded khadi labelKhadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) had received its largest ever order worth Rs 2 crore from Raymond for the supply of 98000 me...
19 May, 2017, 05.30 PM IST
Fabindia in fresh row for calling its fabrics KhadiThe Textile Laboratory and Research Centre, Mumbai, said Fabindia has been using blends of flax with cotton, which doesn’t qualify as khadi.
28 Apr, 2017, 08.27 AM IST
Khadi & Village Industries Commission to promote fibre extracted from banana"We are promoting the extraction of fine, soft and durable yarn from the banana leaves for stitching them into clothes and to make it comme...
09 Mar, 2017, 03.46 PM IST
Inefficiency spins Mahatma’s Khadi dream into a nightmareKVIC is more than just textiles but the quality and service is so poor that it all just builds up to more unsold stocks.
18 Feb, 2017, 01.38 AM IST
How Bengalureans are putting a spin on cottonWith the weaving communities in the city vanishing, there may soon be similar weaving classes conducted in the city.
21 Nov, 2016, 11.50 AM IST
Khadi is the new cool, Indian way of making a fashion statementIndeed, khadi has all the threads of a good yarn — provided it can be reeled off well and sold properly. Think Friday Dressing, Desi Style.
27 Aug, 2016, 09.53 AM IST
Seventy years since Independence, wheels of the charkha still spin peace and patriotismFrom Gandhi Bhawan in New Delhi to the villages of Rajasthan to back home in Chennai, where VR Devika, a scholar on Gandhi 'spins a yarn' a...
15 Aug, 2016, 12.26 PM IST
To save khadi and handloom, they need to be rescued from swadeshis and socialistsThe magic mantras, which PM Narendra Modi identified during fleeting attention to the struggling industry, are branding and marketing.
12 Aug, 2015, 11.15 AM IST
- Khadi board plans to open common facility centres in J-K
The Khadi and Village Industries Board is planning to open Common Facility Centres at Bandipora and Basholi in Jammu and Kashmir to assist ...
05 Jul, 2008, 03.49 PM IST
- Women of Palanpur still turn the wheel
The story began in a small place called Palanpur in Gujarat in 1915. Since then, the women force spearheaded the growth from behind the sce...
15 Aug, 2006, 02.29 AM IST
- NK Singh panel moots excise exemption for SSI
The high-powered NK Singh Committee on textiles is understood to have favoured excise duty exemption to the "genuinely disadvantaged" secto...
02 Jan, 2003, 09.04 PM IST