Karnataka KCET 2026 Toppers list: Check Engineering and other stream-wise toppers, rank card and more hereThe Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has announced the KCET 2026 results, with Tanisha Karthik topping the Engineering stream and Nin...
06 Jun, 2026, 12.49 PM IST
India, Georgia move to boost silk and textile collaborationIndia and Georgia are strengthening ties in textiles and silk production. A delegation from India's Ministry of Textiles visited Georgia to...
23 Nov, 2025, 12.44 PM IST
Chikkaballapur MP Sudhakar urges Centre to expand PM Fasal Bima & Kisan Yojana with more farming activitiesBJP MP Dr K Sudhakar called for the inclusion of sectors like sericulture, livestock farming, and aquaculture under PM Fasal Bima Yojana an...
30 Nov, 2024, 06.40 PM IST
Sericulture farmers see 20% higher prices on the back of ReshaMandi's digital supportMore than 12,000 sericulture farmers in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra currently use the artificial intelligence-bas...
18 Jul, 2021, 09.04 PM IST
Silk price a poll issue in Ramanagara, parties weave promisesIn this Vokkaliga-dominated region where caste politics dominates everything else, every political party is making sericulture a poll issue.
16 Apr, 2018, 07.36 PM IST
H Nagesh Prabhu assumes charge as secretary general of International Sericultural CommissionISC, instituted on August 8, 1960, is the only inter-governmental organisation engaged in the development of sericulture and silk industry ...
01 Jan, 2016, 03.33 PM IST
Punjab scheme to boost sericulture in the stateThe Department of Horticulture, Punjab, has proposed a new State Plan Scheme for Catalytic Development Programme during the current year.
07 Sep, 2015, 12.59 PM IST
Coimbatore's silk farmers in despair due to unstable pricesCocoon prices in the country fell by more than 60 per cent, once the import duty on raw silk from China was reduced from 15 per cent to 10 ...
25 Aug, 2015, 11.39 AM IST
Sericulture would employ 9.24 million people by 2016-17: Central Silk BoardThe Central Silk Board today said direct and indirect employment generation through sericulture and silk production activities in the count...
13 Nov, 2013, 09.55 PM IST
Textile Ministry to give Rs 1,000 crore financial aid for sericulture for Jharkhand"I would urge Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh to sanction Rs 1,000 crore and my department will give Rs 1,000 to help Jharkh...
25 Oct, 2013, 08.30 PM IST
- Sericulture labour integrated with MNREGA
Keeping in view the shortage of skilled labour in sericulture, the Rural Development Ministry has agreed to integrate the workers in this s...
09 Oct, 2013, 08.24 PM IST
Rs 232 crore for handloom and sericulture departmentAssam government has earmarked Rs 232 crore under the state plan to promote growth in the handloom and sericulture sector.
21 Mar, 2013, 02.25 PM IST
- Duty on imported Chinese silk should continue: Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily
Moily has said the sericulture farmers were quite agitated over the Centre's move to reduce import duty on Chinese silk import, and sought ...
31 Jul, 2011, 04.09 PM IST
- Orissa targets to produce about 500 tons of silk by 2020
The Orissa government decided to set up a State Sericulture Research and Development Institute (SSRDI) at an estimated cost of Rs 15 crore ...
16 Apr, 2010, 11.30 PM IST
- Karnataka may fall off Silk Route map
Karnataka, India’s silk capital, could soon be losing its crown position with silk output from the state slipping to below 50% in 2006-07.
10 Mar, 2008, 03.38 AM IST
- Drawing on silk appeal
Of the two things which catch every woman’s fancy - silk and diamonds - India has created a very unique niche for itself as regards silk.
19 Dec, 2006, 04.03 AM IST
- Sericulture eyes seed gains via double hybrid route
Double hybrid cocoons could be the new segment of focus for the Indian bivoltine sericulture industry.
02 Aug, 2006, 02.55 AM IST