A big-boned man in his mid-fifties, he is a trader in women’s blouses. Until ten years ago, Mehra used to take orders from garment wholesalers in big cities like Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, buy the ...

The Centre has revised the goods and services tax (GST) on textile from 18% to 5% in last meeting on Saturday. However, textile industry in Surat seems unhappy with the decision and considering to ...

The traders in Surat were protesting a 5 per cent GST imposed on the textile sector Ahmedabad: The traders in Surat have called off their two-week-long strike against the imposition of five per cent ...

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with Europe and tariff reductions in the United States have opened new global markets for garment exports from Surat.

Textile units in Surat, India’s biggest man-made fabric hub, are struggling to revive from the current crisis of sluggish demand despite the onset of the festive season. Though textile units witnessed ...

On a weekday afternoon, a week before Diwali, 51-year-old Anand Adani sat in his garment wholesale shop listening to the Pakistani singer Atif Aslam dishing out love ballads on YouTube. Apart from ...

A fire broke out at a textile mill in Surat on Saturday night. The incident took place in the Pandesara area of Surat around 10 pm on Saturday. Following the incident, fire engines rushed to the spot.

Minister of state for textiles Ajay Tamta. “Surat is the MMF hub and that the Ministry of Textiles is seriously thinking of providing a Centre of Excellence and supporting the proposal for ...

The nearly Rs 70,000 crore synthetic textile industry of Surat, which had come to a standstill during and in the immediate aftermath of the lockdown, is humming once again. Part I: Bumps galore, but ...

Surat: Vibrant Textile Expo Sharjah 2023, organized by Federation of Gujarat Weaver Welfare Association (FOGWWA) in Sharjah was inaugurated on Tuesday. At the inauguration HE Waleed Abdul Rahman ...