India Garment Industry

As Chinas and Bangladesh's dominance wanes, the world is searching for the next textile hub.

India and the 27-nation European Union (EU) will restart negotiations for their long-pending free trade agreement from June

Millions of "hidden" home-based garment workers in India who help prop up the global fashion industry risk missing out on aid during the coronavirus pandemic, labour rights campaigners said.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Sunday said Indian textiles and garments industry would soon get its own country-specific apparel size.

"The positive impact of GST is yet to be felt by garment industry where input costs have not come down," apparel exporters said

The drop in exports of shoes and leather garments comes as a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has sought to create millions of jobs by more than doubling the leather industry's revenues to $27 billion by 2020.

Natural yarn will be taxed at 5 per cent, while man-made yarn will be taxed at 18 per cent, readymade garments will attract 12 per cent tax, whereas no tax will be levied on jute.

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 per cent of south India’s spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers said, calling for mapping of supply chains and tougher audits. The India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), a human rights organisation, spoke to...

Import of second hand machinery with subsidies provided by the government is affecting the technical textile sector and garment designers, Union Minister Smriti Irani today said.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the Bihar government would go for branding of finer quality of khadi clothes made in the state to attract the "newer generation" through designer garments made of it.

Yoga guru Ramdev-owned Patanjali group is all set to explore international markets with its FMCG products and may also enter Pakistan and Afghanistan in future.

Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.

Government's latest package for the textile sector is likely to improve the competitiveness of the country's exports but achieving the target of $43 billion of apparel exports by 2018 remains a challenge, ratings agency Icra said.

Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) said it was collaborating with trade unions, government as well as the UN to improve workers' conditions after a study found violations in supplying garment factories in India and Cambodia.

Expressing disappointment over the Reserve Bank of India keeping its policy rate unchanged, the Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) on Tuesday requested the government to announce a three per cent interest subvention scheme for the garment sector.

As Chinas and Bangladesh's dominance wanes, the world is searching for the next textile hub.

India and the 27-nation European Union (EU) will restart negotiations for their long-pending free trade agreement from June

Millions of "hidden" home-based garment workers in India who help prop up the global fashion industry risk missing out on aid during the coronavirus pandemic, labour rights campaigners said.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Sunday said Indian textiles and garments industry would soon get its own country-specific apparel size.

"The positive impact of GST is yet to be felt by garment industry where input costs have not come down," apparel exporters said

The drop in exports of shoes and leather garments comes as a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has sought to create millions of jobs by more than doubling the leather industry's revenues to $27 billion by 2020.

Natural yarn will be taxed at 5 per cent, while man-made yarn will be taxed at 18 per cent, readymade garments will attract 12 per cent tax, whereas no tax will be levied on jute.

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 per cent of south India’s spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers said, calling for mapping of supply chains and tougher audits. The India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), a human rights organisation, spoke to...

Import of second hand machinery with subsidies provided by the government is affecting the technical textile sector and garment designers, Union Minister Smriti Irani today said.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the Bihar government would go for branding of finer quality of khadi clothes made in the state to attract the "newer generation" through designer garments made of it.

Yoga guru Ramdev-owned Patanjali group is all set to explore international markets with its FMCG products and may also enter Pakistan and Afghanistan in future.

Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.

Government's latest package for the textile sector is likely to improve the competitiveness of the country's exports but achieving the target of $43 billion of apparel exports by 2018 remains a challenge, ratings agency Icra said.

Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) said it was collaborating with trade unions, government as well as the UN to improve workers' conditions after a study found violations in supplying garment factories in India and Cambodia.

Expressing disappointment over the Reserve Bank of India keeping its policy rate unchanged, the Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) on Tuesday requested the government to announce a three per cent interest subvention scheme for the garment sector.