Category: Editorials
India’s Job Creation & Race for Development in Asia
The race for development, among nations, using globalization as a major tool is slowing down thanks to the recent signs of the revolt against globaliz [...]
China’s Anti-Pollution Law has Fast & Furious Actions & Targets
China’s colossal growth of textile and clothing industry has contributed to the rampant pollution prevailing today. The wastewater emissions from dyei [...]
Fashion Designers Playing Key Role in Sustainability Awareness
The fashion world is redefining what it means to be really fashionable these days. Fashion experts have discovered a new medium, termed 'sustainabilit [...]
Globalization is Irreversible. ….And it is Dying!
The theory of trickle-down economics, as propagated worldwide by economists of repute everywhere, has not worked the way it was supposed to have worke [...]
India’s Currency Demonitization : B&W Or Technicolor?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Address to the nation on November 8, made a surprise announcement that the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 [...]
Innovative Functional Textiles Require Custom Testing Programs
There is a growing need for the industry to design special testing programs to create awareness of how to properly choose a test method, interpret the [...]
High-intensity Tremor Shakes India’s Textile Industry
On August 19, 2016, a sort of earthquake hit India’s largest home textile exporter to the US for the last many years. The intensity of the quake was s [...]
Garment Industry Shaken By Proposed Excise Duty in Union Budget 2016-17
The Union Budget 2016-2017 is a growth-oriented budget that aims to build on India’s strengths and to address the problems and challenges that are fac [...]
“Budget Expectations Are Going To Be Muted in 2016”
India has a tradition to treat the Union Budget as a big event of February every year. Citizens, at personal level, look forward to increase in income [...]
Is India Ready for Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Effluent?
The textile industry's hard realization that it was causing an unbearable health hazard to people's lives came in February 2011 when the Madras High C [...]