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India to organize world’s largest virtual fair for textiles

New Delhi: India is organizing the world’s largest virtual fair for textiles with around 5,000 sellers and 30,000 buyers across the globe. Textiles secretary Ravi Capoor on Wednesday said the government is planning a Textile India Fair and looking for an Indian platform for the same. “India is planning a Textile India Fair. We are […]

Masks, surgical gowns & export boost the prices of organic cotton

NEW DELHI: Organic cotton prices have increased by 8 per cent to 12 per cent in the past two months and may remain firm as buying by the domestic medical textile sector and the overseas market has picked up, trade bodies said. “The sale of organic cotton and yarn has increased significantly and supplies are […]

IITs to help textiles get back on track

NEW DELHI: New Delhi: India has begun working on continuity plans and ways to kickstart the economy once the country emerges from the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic. The textiles ministry has roped in the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) to address both immediate and medium term action plans for the industry in the […]