Piyush Goyal, commerce and industry minister India has the potential to become the world’s largest gems and jewellery exporter, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said at the inaugural event of the five-day India International Jewellery Show on Thursday. The country can be a proficient lab-grown diamond maker, impeccable design centre and technologically advanced machinery…
NEW DELHI: Apart from his stellar batting shows, India’s run machine Virat Kohli is known for entertaining fans with his antics. After India sealed a historic seven-wicket win over South Africa in the second and final Test at the Newlands in Cape Town to level the series 1-1, Virat was in his element. After the…
Renowned as a hub for readymade garments, Indore has been seeing a steady demand for the apparel category in the festive and wedding season over the last few months. The city, as per estimates, is home to over 2500 small and medium-sized garment manufacturers. As per a report in The Times of India, demand for…
Lucknow: During the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the Special Task Force (STF) of the UP Police confronted the listed gangster Vinod Upadhyay in Sultanpur. Acting on a tip-off regarding his movement in Sultanpur, the STF launched an operation and successfully intercepted the target. Officials said that in the ensuing exchange of fire, one…
Representational image Top global apparel and fast fashion brands appear to have struck a strong chord with young customers, racking up sales growth of anywhere between 40% and 60% in FY23, bucking the trend in a market where the overall demand for discretionary products slowed down. For instance, Swedish fashion retailer H&M and rival Zara…
Mumbai: Noel Tata-led chain Trent, which owns Westside, Zudio and Star Bazaar, has built a business model around selling private labels (owned brands), and its chief executive believes there is no reason just yet to deviate from this pronouncedly singular script for the Tata Group retailing business. “We have growing conviction in our model. The…
JD Sports Fashion lowered its full-year profit forecast on Thursday, citing higher costs and subdued consumer spending in the peak season, sending the British sportswear retailer’s shares down nearly 21%. Retailers in the United Kingdom have experienced tepid growth as the ongoing cost-of-living squeeze prompts shoppers to rein in spending. Apparel retailers across Europe like…
VARANASI: Ahead of the Varanasi district judge’s decision on opening the sealed envelopes containing Archaeological Survey of India‘s report on the Gyanvapi mosque survey, ASI filed a fresh application on Wednesday, urging the court to postpone the disclosure of the report for four weeks.In response to the plea, the court reserved its order on the…
BHOPAL: In a momentous development for India’s conservation efforts at the onset of new year, ‘Aasha,’ the cheetah named by Prime Minister Modi, gave birth to a robust litter of cubs inside Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. This development has sparked renewed hopes for the thriving resurgence of cheetahs within the Indian ecosystem.Aasha has…
NEW DELHI: Ahmedabad GIFT City-based leasing firm ModAir Aviation has inducted its fifth aircraft — a two-seater training plane Tecnam P-Mentor which will be based an an upcoming flying school in Karnataka. Before the end of this fiscal, Modair says it will induct its sixth aircraft that will be leased a non-scheduled Indian airline operators.ModAir…
