"Who will buy the sarees I make," is a question that Haridas Basak (87) repeatedly asks as he works in a dimly lit room with a tin roof and...

Under a revival scheme, Rs 5,500 crore were spent to meet its various expenses like clearing up outstanding statutory dues, One Time Settle...

In its meeting with Tehwar Chand Gehlot-led group of ministers on employment and skill development, BMS has urged the government to restric...

Small units are facing a return of the inspector raj as local authorities have a great deal of discretion when interpreting powers to manag...

Seeking relief packages for migrant workers stuck in different parts of the country, BMS said, most of them are not registered with the gov...

The Shram-Yogi Maandhan will cover those with monthly income of up to Rs 15,000, providing an assured monthly pension of Rs 3,000 after the...

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

The medical care under the ESI scheme entails primary, secondary and tertiary medical care with no cap on individual expenditure.

Textile ministry has signed MoUs with 20 e-commerce firms to engage with artisans and weavers in various handloom and handicraft clusters a...

Beauty parlour work, hairdressing have emerged as some of the most sought-after skills among beneficiaries of the rural jobs programme unde...

Agriculture related activities topped the charts, with 1.4 lakh workers opting for dairy, fisheries, sericulture, sheep rearing, among othe...

Gangwar said the bill seeks to free the ailing National Textile Corporation, which has property worth Rs 25 lakh crore, from rent control l...

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...

The ministry is finalising changes to the Child Labour Act of 1986, the Minimum Wage Act of 1948 and the Apprenticeship Act of 1961.

Rising productivity surely causes some job losses, but creates jobs elsewhere.

Research on Wal-Martisation reveals that the price of any product from a retail outlet like Wal-Mart is invariably 10% more than what is av...

The 28 days old strike by power loom units in Coimbatore and Tirupur was called off on Wednesday following an agreement reached between the...