The proposal to allow cotton and sugar imports from India will be presented before Pakistan's Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet for approval at the meeting convened by the country's Ministry of Commerce

In his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio address, Modi also hailed the world's largest vaccination programme being carried out in India against the COVID-19 and stressed on \"dawai bhi, kadai bhi\" (medicines as well as strict preventive measures)

There is a minimum shortfall of six million bales and Pakistan has so far imported roughly 688,305 metric tonnes of cotton and yarn, costing $1.1 billion, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Rahul Gandhi said that he was \"used to a different type of politics\" and how the political landscape of Kerala was a refreshing change for him

This year's budget was in the midst of the pandemic, but stayed on the path of 'AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan' that supplements the Make in India vision of the government

In a press conference at the Singhu border, farmers' unions seemed disgruntled by the government for \"ignoring\" them in the Union Budget speech. They accused the government of alleged harassment, as they said that water and power supplies to the protest sites had been curtailed

Budget 2021: In order to benefit farmers and promote domestic manufacturing, the government has also raised customs duty on cotton from nil to 10 per cent and on raw silk and silk yarn from 10 per cent to 15 per cent

With the concept of the parks with a plug-and-play model, the textile and apparel sector, particularly the SMEs (small and medium enterprises), can build competitiveness in manufacturing, ITF convenor Prabhu Dhamodharan said in the statement

The government has also set a five-year long fiscal consolidation path to 4.5 per cent fiscal deficit by 2025-26. This means the government expansionary fiscal stance to support the growth will continue

This will create a world-class infrastructure with plug-and-play facilities to enable create global champions in export, FM Sitharaman added

Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana will have an outlay of Rs 64,181 crore over the next six years

Union Budget 2021: A joint committee of textile industry bodies has asked for government's intervention in removing anti-dumping duty on VSF

Sensex, Nifty Highlights on Budget day, February 1: Almost all the sectors closed in green territory today, rising in the range of 3-6%, except for pharma index

Budget 2021: Last year, Centre announced production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for 13 industries in two tranches. The aim is to improve manufacturing capabilities and exports in these sectors

In the \"Restoring Economic Growth (Option 1)\" session, the textile minister said that despite initial fears about the scale of the pandemic making it difficult to coordinate responses, India is proof that when government and citizens come together, much can be done

National Committee on Textiles & Clothing said the textile industry has been facing stagnation since many years mainly due to the lack of availability of the basic raw materials at internationally competitive prices

The last few decades saw MNCs from abroad do business and prosper in India but this decade will belong to the Indian MNCs, he said, after laying the foundation stone for the permanent campus of IIM-Sambalpur in Odisha through video conference

Having deliberately opted out of the world's largest trade bloc, RCEP, India can now push for the limited trade deal with the US

Khattar said that considering investors' requirement, connecting global value chains and to handhold the investor through proactive facilitation to navigate business plans, the Haryana government has established a new 'foreign cooperation department'

He also highlighted that the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector in India is a major job creator and contributor to the country's gross domestic product (GDP)