India

A baseline assessment report to understand approaches to circular economy in India’s textile and apparel sector concludes that while there is a growing awareness of sustainable practices in the industry, there are still challenges to be addressed in order to implement circularity across the value chain.

India needs to explore ways to face the challenges arising out of some legislations in the European Union that are violative of WTO agreements and bound to make Indian exports to the region less competitive.

Pune-based deeptech startup KBCols Sciences dips into the rich biodiversity of India to tech-source microbes and cultures them in bioreactors to produce natural colours of choice, using agrowaste as feedstock. The final product—bio-colours free from microbes—are a universal drop-in-solution to dye fibres.

The ninth National Handloom Day was celebrated with the launch of a one-of-a-kind Bharatiya Vastra Aevam Shilpkosh or the textiles & crafts repository e-portal as a one stop resource, providing information on new developments and current events relating to textiles and crafts.

In a global first, the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) will soon be able to detect organic versus non-organic cotton fields in India by using AI and satellite imagery.

A national workshop on ‘convergence’ of five specialised institutions hosted by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) called on the establishments to work towards global competency, knowledge-sharing, enhancing self-efficiency, workforce development and optimum usage of resources.

The just released 2023 Circular Fashion Index (CFX) by Kearney rues that the needle has barely moved since last year's report, with the 200 global brands analysed barely reaching an average of 2.97 on a circularity scale of 10.

India’s retail and ecommerce sectors are abuzz with what’s going to be the impact of the Reliance-Shein combine on the overall landscape, and how it is eventually going to play out. A texfash.com analysis.

The link between increasingly severe climate events and the rising suicide rate among India’s farmers, specially into cotton cultivation, has long been a concern. A new study that will resonate in many countries of the Global South and North that are struggling with a similar crisis, suggests preventative actions that could support farmers to cope with common risk factors by improving local climate resilience and mental health services.

The IOAS has lifted the ban on Control Union (CU) India for GOTS, Textile Exchange and ISO/IEC 17065 accreditation which it had imposed in March this year.