Union Minister of State for Textiles and External Affairs Pabitra Margherita launched the Bunkar and Karigar Utthan Upskilling Programme FY...

The World Designing Forum announces India's inaugural Handloom Cluster and Apparel Designing hub in Agra, targeting fashion innovation and ...

As per the amended rule, "of all items of textiles required by the central government departments, it shall be mandatory to make procuremen...

"Rs 10 lakh has been sanctioned to NIOS for conducting the survey in connection with the designing of courses exclusively for handloom weav...

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

The Textiles Ministry today said it has set a target of extending MUDRA loans to five lakh handloom weavers in the next three years.

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.

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

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...

To promote the textiles sector, the government may consider a proposal for continuation of comprehensive powerloom cluster development sche...

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

The handloom sector accounted for a share of 19 % of the total cloth produced and is the second largest employment provider after agricultu...

The Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA) on Thursday demanded the Handloom Reservation Act should be scrapped.

The Jharkhand government plans to equip the weavers of Jharkhand with latest techniques in order to improve the quality of handicraft produ...

The government has sanctioned 10 handlooms clusters for the Jammu and Kashmir region to facilitate development and trade of handicrafts and...

The handloom industry is the second-largest economic activity in the country, after agriculture, a means to survival for close to 12.4 mill...

The handloom sector may soon get about 25% capital subsidy. The textile ministry has formulated a Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS)...