When the actress owned the ramp.
With the heat rising well above normal levels, sales of Indian khadi clothes have picked up in Ahmadabad. Wholesalers and boutique owners weigh in.
The Uppada Handloom Weavers Co-operative Production and Sales Society Limited and two other registered societies, representing the weavers community in several villages in the Uppada Kothapalli mandal of East Godavari district, have been given the GI registration.
Lakme Fashion Week Gen Next designer, Chandrima Agnihotri, tells Rediff.com what she has planned for her runway debut.
GenNext designer Sumiran Sharma, 30, of ANAAM talks about his collection, design inspiration and why he wants to style Kangana Ranaut.
According to the designer it will help weavers' children go to school. Find out how!
The interest subvention on pre-shipment credit for seven sectors, including handlooms, handicrafts, carpets, leather, gems and jewellery, marine products will now be available till March 31, 2010. "Our exporters by virtue of their close links to the external sector have borne the brunt of the global economic crisis. It is appropriate that we continue to provide them all possible assistance to them overcome the short term disadvantages," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said
She began her career as an aspiring model in the late 1990s. A few decades later, she is one of India's best known politicians.
'For me one's identity is very important and being true to at least one's self is a must,' says Manish Malhotra.
The minister hoped that the steps taken by the government would increase foreign investment in the country.
The 12th edition of EORS will be held from June 19-22. There will be a dedicated central virtual war-room for tactical problem solving across all phases of the event. Shoppers across the country will have access to over 700,000 styles from over 3,000 fashion and lifestyle brands. Myntra is expecting 3 million people to shop from the safety of their homes.
Popular Telugu film star-turned-politician Chiranjeevi launched his public contact program on Saturday by undertaking his first visit to Sricilla, a town of handloom weavers in Karimnagar district in the heart of the Telangana region.
Celebrities make a splash at the launch of Splash Autumn/Winter collection launch.
Why keep it simple when you can make your sari look refreshingly stylish?
The Uttar Pradesh Export Corporation Limited (UPECL), a state government undertaking engaged in the development and marketing of handicrafts and handloom items produced in Uttar Pradesh, is set to apply for patenting of Lucknow chikan. Once the office of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) gives its certificate, chikan would exclusively be linked with Lucknow city.
High interest rates, lack of credit, high raw material prices and recession in the US and Europe have hurt the country's cotton textile industry, the Economic Survey said.
The Indian Institute of Export Management invites applications for its four-month correspondence diploma course in export management.
From January-March this year, 64,000 jobs were created in eight crucial sectors of the economy.
Events that shaped the nation in the past 48 hours in images.
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The Atlas said the growth of the industry had accelerated to 10 per cent per annum and was expected to reach 16 per cent in the near future. The textile trade had been contributing about 17 per cent of country's overall export, growing at a compounded average of 10.24 per cent per annum over the last decade.
Congress chief Mallikarjuna Kharge said that if voted to power, the party would provide loans at three per cent interest rate for farmers, journalists, women's self help groups, potters, handloom weavers, fishermen and shepherds. All pending loans under the Ashraya and Awaz Yojana scheme will also be waived off.Free colour TVs and 25 kg of rice at Rs 2 for families living below the poverty line that is what the Congress manifesto promises.
Taking a veiled swipe at the Congress party, he said one of the things he found when he came to Delhi was that those who got opportunity to rule the nation for "many, many years, loved to keep things in a pendulum mode".
How do you provide health care to handloom weavers, who occupy among the poorest segments in the unorganised sector? There are 6.5 million of them scattered across the country and are not always fixed in their occupation.
A Rs 40-lakh silk saree, intricately woven with 12 precious stones and metals and replicating 11 famous paintings of Raja Ravi Verma, will seek an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive saree.
Most handloom weavers have now become workers and live on daily wages. The pall of economic gloom is there for all to see. Anguish and frustration among the weaver families is palpable.
New Yorkers would get to sample for free, Indian handicrafts and handlooms, its folk and classical dances, bollywood and of course cuisine from the sub-continent as part of an extended celebration of the country's 60 years of independence.
The youth have to turn into entrepreneurs if India's massive demographic dividend is to be taken advantage of: Smriti Irani.
Another PSU has entered the arena of bullion Futures market. In a recent development, the Handicrafts & Handlooms Exports Corporation of India, a PSU under the ministry of textiles, has started hedging in bullion metals at the Multi Commodity Exchange. According to the PSU officials, it has hedged Rs 13 crore in gold and silver over the last one month.
Financial subsidies that are not WTO-compatible will have to be phased out and GSP benefits will not be available for long. Things have just got tougher.
Sanjeev Nayyar offers a roster of things to do to see the India of our dreams.
Indigene and Sayantan Sarkar's Lakme Fashion Week collections promise to keep us warm in style.
The India-born designer brought out his A game at the home of all things fashionable.
GenNext designer Diming Rubu talks about her failure at the Lakme Fashion week last year and the fashion scene in Arunachal Pradesh, her home state.
The traditional Indian drape may be the garment of choice on an auspicious occasion but it is time to revive it for everyday use say experts.
They not only stitch the double-pocket shirts but also design and attach the trademark emblems on its sleeves.
Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath has announced the annual supplement to the Foreign Trade Policy.
