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PM Modi sets ₹9L Cr textile exports goal by 2030 | Latest News India

PM Modi sets ₹9L Cr textile exports goal by 2030 | Latest News India

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India aims for a threefold increase in its textile exports to ₹9 lakh crore by 2030, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, hoping that the target can be achieved even earlier with the vision of “Five Fs” and new $7.5 billion worth of global opportunities in recycling of textile waste. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ‘Bharat Tex 2025’ in the Bharat Mandapam on Sunday. (PTI) “Our textile exports have reached ₹3 lakh crore. Now our aim is to take it to ₹9 lakh crore by 2030,” Modi said at Bharat Tex 2025 in New Delhi. The PM said that the India’s textile sector grew by 7% last year, earning the world’s sixth largest textile exporter’s tag, and he hoped that the industry will strive to achieve double-digit growth in the coming years. He said every entrepreneur participating in Bharat Tex is exposed to over 120 countries, thus the event is giving them an opportunity to expand their businesses from local to global markets. Earlier, textile minister Giriraj Singh said that the event has exhibitors …

Noida traffic police issues advisory for four-day textile event

Noida traffic police issues advisory for four-day textile event

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Image Source : PTI Traffic jam at Delhi-Noida border (File) Noida traffic authorities issued an advisory for a four-day textile event slated to begin on Wednesday (February 12) at the Expo Centre in Knowledge Park 2, Greater Noida.  “It is informed to the general public that it is proposed to organise the Global Textile Event “Bharat Tex-2025″ at India Expo Center (Expomart) Greater Noida from 12.02.2025 to 15.02.2025. In which about 5,000 (five thousand) people are likely to participate. During the said event, traffic will be operated normally,” an advisory issued by the Traffic Police Gautam Budh Nagar read. If there is heavy traffic pressure on the Expomart Golchakkar (roundabout), then the Expomart Golchakkar (roundabout) will be closed as per requirement and traffic will be diverted as follows: Vehicles going from Galgotia Cut to IFS Villa Golchakkar (roundabout) via Expomart Golchakkar (roundabout) will be able to go towards their destination via Expomart Golchakkar (roundabout) via Bada Golchakkar (roundabout), Sharda Golchakkar (roundabout), LG Golchakkar (roundabout) via Jagatfarm or 130 meter road.  Parking arrangement People …

BIS opens specialised textile testing lab in Hyderabad 

BIS opens specialised textile testing lab in Hyderabad 

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BIS director general Pramod Kumar Tiwari inaugurating the specialised textiles testing laboratory in Hyderabad on Monday (January 27, 2025). | Photo Credit: By Arrangement National standards body the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has established a laboratory exclusively for the testing of specialised textile products in Hyderabad. The laboratory will play a vital role in strengthening the quality ecosystem in the textile sector with its state-of-the-art testing facilities, BIS director general Pramod Kumar Tiwari said at the inauguration of the lab in Moulali here on Monday (January 27, 2025). Setting up of the specialised textiles testing laboratory in Hyderabad is a significant step in strengthening the country’s quality infrastructure. It is poised to play a critical role in enforcing quality control orders (QCOs) issued by the government of India, ensuring textile products meet the highest national standards, he said. Testing facilities for yarn will also be operational in this laboratory shortly, further expanding its capabilities. Besides inaugurating the laboratory, Mr. Tiwari also launched a Universal Testing Machine (UTM) for textile testing, a versatile …

Thousands of textile units in Surat hit as labourers call strike to seek wage hike | Ahmedabad News

Thousands of textile units in Surat hit as labourers call strike to seek wage hike | Ahmedabad News

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Police vans patrolling industrial areas, and factory owners standing guard to prevent damage to the units. These were the scenes on Monday in Surat’s Pandesara as tens of thousands of labourers joined a protest to seek a wage hike. More than one thousand textile factories and 1.50 to 2 lakh powerloom machines have been hit due to the strike, which began over the weekend. It all began on Saturday night, as per sources, when a group of 25 to 35 textile workers — armed with wooden sticks and iron rods on bikes — compelled the workers at factories to step out and join the strike. As factory owners learnt about the incident around midnight, they rushed to their units. When they asked the labourers to return to work, they were told that the fear of those leading the strike was a deterrent, as per people in the know. On Sunday, factory owners called up a meeting to discuss a possible solution. Subsequently, work resumed at around 50 per cent of the units as police presence …

Malavika Mohanan: It’s inspiring that every part of India has its unique textile

Malavika Mohanan: It’s inspiring that every part of India has its unique textile

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Actor Malavika Mohanan, known for her performances in films like Beyond the Clouds (2017), Petta (2019), and Master (2021), is now set to make her Telugu debut in The RajaSahab. She seamlessly blends her acting prowess with a distinct sense of style. But ask her to define her personal style and the 31-year-old admits it’s challenging to describe it. “I dress according to where I’m going, how I’m feeling, how my body is feeling on that particular day”, she says, adding, “But on a broad level, if I had to describe it, I would say classic with a touch of go.” Actor Malavika Mohanan For Malavika, fashion is a tool for self-expression. “She adds, “You can communicate so much using fashion — your personality, your mood. If I am in Kerala, I’m automatically inclined to wearing a lot more of the traditional textiles from the region. In Rajasthan, I find myself going for block prints and a lot of silver jewellery.” Outfit: SABE by Sanil & Beenu Makhija Mohanan exudes elegance in a velvet saree …

Sharad Pawar’s wife denied entry into Baramati’s Textile Park for 25 mins, Supriya Sule raises objection | Pune News

Sharad Pawar’s wife denied entry into Baramati’s Textile Park for 25 mins, Supriya Sule raises objection | Pune News

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NCP MP Supriya Sule on Sunday said that her mother Pratibha Pawar and daughter Revati were stopped from entering Baramati’s Textile Park for 25 minutes. “My father had set up the Textile Park in Baramati. And today, my mother and daughter were made to wait at the gates of the same park for 25 minutes. They were not allowed to go in by security guards,” Sule told reporters in Baramati today. After 25 minutes, they were allowed to enter Textile Park. Pratibha Pawar herself made a video of the incident. However, the management of Textile Park has clarified that the two were trying to enter Textile Park through the gate from where only vehicles are allowed entry and exit. ”The gate through which Pratibha Pawar sought entry is open only to goods vehicles. For citizens, there is another gate half a kilometre away. Also, the guard on duty at that gate is not from Maharashtra, so he did not recognisePratibha Kaki,” said Anil Wagh, the manager at Textile Park. ”When I was informed, I immediately …

Textile mill worker from Odisha arrested for murdering six-year-old boy near Tiruppur

Textile mill worker from Odisha arrested for murdering six-year-old boy near Tiruppur

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Representational image only. | Photo Credit: PTI The police have arrested an employee of a textile mill at Karanampettai in Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu, on the charge of murdering a six-year-old boy, son of his co-worker, who is also from Odisha. Kanhu Das (34) who is from Ranital in Odisha was arrested on November 14 for murdering Ganesh, son of Anita Naik from Suramani village in Ganjam district in Odisha. Ms. Naik found her son missing when she returned to the labourers’ quarters at Sangothipalayam after work around 7.30 p.m. on November 8. She used to leave him under the care of a woman at the quarters. The woman lodged a complaint with the Palladam police around 11.30 p.m. and the boy was found murdered outside the compound wall of the quarters the next day. Das, who was working as a supervisor of the mill, became one of the suspects during the investigation as he had a break-up with the boy’s mother Ms. Naik, who also worked at the same mill. Investigators found out …

Textile doyen S P Oswal narrates ordeal with cyber fraudsters: ‘Attended fake Supreme Court hearing over Skype, was kept under digital surveillance for 2 days’ | Chandigarh News

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From “impersonating Chief Justice of India Justice D Y Chandrachud” to “holding a fake Supreme Court hearing via Skype” and citing the money-laundering investigation against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, cyber fraudsters duped textile industry doyen S P Oswal, an 82-year-old Padma Bhushan awardee, to transfer Rs 7 crore to their bank accounts. The Ludhiana police on Sunday arrested two people from Assam and identified seven others spread across West Bengal and Delhi, while recovering from their bank accounts Rs 5.25 crore that they accumulated allegedly after duping Oswal. Oswal, chairman-cum-managing director of Vardhman Group, the largest textile manufacturing group in the country, says he was also taken into “digital custody” by the fraudsters who posed as CBI sleuths. Oswal says they kept him under “digital surveillance for two days via Skype” as a “suspect in a money-laundering case”. The ordeal that started on August 27 ended only when he refused to give them more money after transferring Rs 7 crore to their accounts. The FIR was registered on August 31. In a conversation with …

Maharashtra: PM Modi to attend `Vishwakarma` event, lay textile park foundation

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra on Friday, where he will attend the first anniversary programme of `PM Vishwakarma` scheme in Wardha and also lay the foundation stone of a textile park in Amravati. During the `PM Vishwakarma` programme to be held in Wardha around 11.30 am, PM Modi will release certificates and loans to the beneficiaries of this scheme, an official release said. Symbolising the tangible support extended to artisans under this scheme, he will distribute credit under the PM Vishwakarma scheme to 18 beneficiaries under 18 trades. As a tribute to their legacy and enduring contribution to society, the prime minister will release a commemorative stamp to mark one year of progress under the scheme, it said. In Amravati, the PM will lay the foundation stone of `PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Park`. The 1,000-acre park is being developed by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) as the state implementation agency. The central government had approved setting up of seven PM MITRA Parks for the textile industry. PM …

April 29, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Modinagar remained tense following a bloody clash at Modi Textile Mills

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Modinagar remained tense following a bloody clash between two rival unions at the Modi Textile Mills resulting in the death of two persons and grievous injury to another. The dead are identified as Ram Nath and Khushiram, both belonging to the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS). HMS member Bhagwan Singh received injuries on his head. Akal Takht for Unity The Jathedar of the Akal Takht, Giani Kirpal Singh, along with other high priests, is busy trying to find a way to forge unity among different factions of Sikh leaders and to re-establish an atmosphere of peace and sanctity in the Golden Temple complex. Political observers feel that although a powerful faction of the Akali Dal wants the Jathedar of the Akal Takht to issue a “hukamnama”, he will not. Deng On Taiwan The Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, told US President Ronald Reagan that Taiwan’s ties with the United States would remain unchanged following peaceful reunification with communist China. “The Chinese people on both sides of the (Taiwan) strait can increase their contact gradually and realise peaceful …