In developing countries like Brazil, Bangladesh, India, China, Pakistan, and Turkey, the global textiles market is estimated at around $1.4 trillion. It employs around 300 million people.

The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has come down heavily on the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for lack of action on violators of water pollution.

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has written a letter to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the withdrawal of 10% customs duty imposed on cotton imports on February 2, 2021.

Noida is known as the City of Apparel. As per reports, the garment exporters and manufactures will expand in the Gautam Budh Nagar. A 150-acre land is being developed in the Sector 29 area of Yeida.

The Indian Railways has taken an initiative where materials like fabrics, goods, and yarn from Ludhiana’s textile garment companies can be exported directly to Bangladesh via trains.

Electronics For Imaging, Inc. has enhanced the world’s fastest digital textile printer, the EFI Reggiani BOLT which is a combination of hardware and software upgradations.

Kornit Digital, worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, announced that Prima Printing, Melbourne has purchased Kornit Atlas for sustainable, digital direct-to-garment (DTG) production on demand.

Rieter presented technologies in the physical and virtual booth that ensure customers’ competitiveness covering automation, fiber yield, energy cost, productivity, flexibility, and intelligence at ITMA Asia + CITME 2021.

A third-party study has been demanded by Smriti Zubin on the sudden spike in cotton yarn prices. This price hike has affected the prospects across the value chain of Indian textiles.