According to a report, about 25,000 techies from Hyderabad alone were retrenched due to IT slowdown
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Exports share to top 10 destinations hike from 49% to 51.6% : PHD Chamber
Export volume to top ten export destinations declined 7.7 per cent from $154.05 billion to $142.55 billion in 2016-17 whereas export volume to rest of the economies declined 16.6 per cent from $160.36 billion in 2013-14 to $133.73 billion in 2016-17.
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नेशनल टेक्सटाइल पॉलिसी का काम अंतिम दौर में, जल्द होगी लॉन्च
वस्त्र मंत्रालय, राष्ट्रीय कपड़ा नीति के दिशानिर्देशों को अंतिम रूप देने की प्रक्रिया में है। इकनॉमिक टाइम्स की एक ख़बर के अनुसार एक वरिष्ठ अधिकारी के मुताबिक पॉलिसी को अगले महीने केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल के पास मंजूरी के लिए भेजा जाएगा। साथ ही सरकार ने तेलंगाना में टेक्सटाइल पार्क के लिए भी काम त…
Cattle Trade Ban: Leather industry claims exports will decline by $3.5 b
The Centre’s ban on the sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter would adversely affect the leather industry, leather exporters in Kolkata said and demanded that the decision be either revoked or amended. If nothing is done, the leather exporters threaten to take to the…
Foreign Trade Policy review: Commerce dept seeks sops for small exporters
New Delhi: The Commerce Department is expected to push for higher interest subsidy and a wider export credit insurance as it seeks to make life easier for small exporters. As part of review of the Foreign Trade Policy, the department is also seeking to widen services basket and make it more attra…
GST rates: Concern over impact on exports of textiles & jewellery
New Delhi: The Commerce Ministry fears that a higher than expected goods and services tax (GST) rate on gems and jewellery and textiles products may make such exports noncompetitive and exporters may have to be compensated. The two items are among six on which GST rates could not be finalized in …
‘GST’s trial by fire will only make small manufacturers more competitive & efficient’
The goods and services tax (GST) is slated for rollout in less than two months and voices are coming forward on the possible negative impact on small manufacturers. We have heard these stories earlier – when the country did away with quantitative restrictions on imports in 2001 and when it opened…
Technology for bio-conversion of coir pith into manure
Researchers in Coir Board have developed a technology for bio-conversion of coir pith into an organic manure, which has the quality of replacing urea, a top official of the Board said. The Allapuzha Research Centre of the board has come out with the technology by which Coir Pith Organic Manure ca…
Indian Industries Association sets up development centre for MSMEs in Lucknow
Indian Industries Association (IIA) has set up an IIA MSME Development Center (IMDC) at its head-office in Vibhuti Kand, Gomtinagar in Lucknow. Vikram Singh (Ex DGP UP) and a Pro- Chancellor, Noida International University who is a renowned speaker and trainer on man management team building, cri…
We try to bring in something new with every line | Kajal Jain, Ahilya Jewels Founder
All that glitters is not gold. It may be silver. That is where Ahilya Jewels sought growth and with the intention to change the jewellery norms, it brought sterling silver into lime light. Ahilya designs draw inspiration from the rich Indian Jewellery heritage. Every region has distinctive design…