In Budget speech, FM not only tried to woo the middle class, but also tried to address rural stress.

Apparel industry manufacturing woollen garments and hosiery apparel, hand tools and industrial equipment, bicycle manufacturing, bicycle pa...

Online platforms are connecting customers directly with craftsmen for the sale of their products removing the middlemen.

A shadow has fallen over the shining threads: the weavers are confused and distressed over the imposition of 5% goods & services tax (GST) ...

While brands like Fabindia have always worked with handloom fabrics, those like Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail and Titan Group are now rea...

Gangwar said the Budget utilisation for the sector in 2015-16 was Rs 591 crore, which is 25 per cent higher than the previous year.

Varanasi's shrinking community of weavers that has dwindled from 3 lakh weavers to 40,000 became designer and BJP treasurer Shaina NC's man...

Each designer will soon be connected with middlemen who will help them identify the weavers, so that they can create their product line as ...

Union Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar today laid the foundation stone of seven handloom common facility centres here, which will help one...

"The government is serious about linking fashion and modern designs to handloom," says SK Panda, Union textiles secretary.

Flipkart has tied up with multiple govt ministries to help artisans shift towards online sales. It has created an exclusive store for Banar...

A clutch of online marketplaces has begun partnering with artisans to bring their products within reach of city customers, a move that is h...

Take the ‘home state’ of the taant sari, West Bengal. In 1982, there were 8,052 power-looms in the small-scale sector with the number of wo...

Govt said "it is committed not to sell" the loss making NTC and plans to nurse the ailing state-owned textiles firm back to health.

Handicrafts and Handloom Exports Corporation of India as well as Handloom Export Promotion Council are working in that direction, he said.

Arun Jaitley allocated Rs 200 crore to set up six textile clusters. These will be located in, among other places, Rae Bareli, Lucknow, Sura...