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'The Next Big Idea' for Indian SMEs

'The Next Big Idea' for Indian SMEs

New Delhi, May 1 (KNN) Ontario International Marketing Centre in India and Invest Toronto have organised a series of seminars to encourage Indian small and…
IIFT turns fifty

IIFT turns fifty

New Delhi, May 1 (KNN)  Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a national institute of excellence celebrates its golden jubilee tomorrow.
 
Coimbatore set to generate 200 lakh litres of water daily from sewage

Coimbatore set to generate 200 lakh litres…

Coimbatore, May 1 (KNN) The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has drawn plans to convert the city’s increasing volume of sewage to generate at least…
Move to increase processing of food products

Move to increase processing of food products

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) The government seeks to treble the size of the processed food sector by increasing the level of processing of perishables from six per cent to 20 per…
Dismal progress in handloom cluster fund use

Dismal progress in handloom cluster fund use

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) The funds utilized for setting up of handloom clusters in different states were considerably less than half of Rs 199 crore released…
Four new footwear design centres to open

Four new footwear design centres to open

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) Four new Footwear Design and Development Institute centres will be opened in the country with a financial assistance of Rs 437 crore…
Apparel exports decline

Apparel exports decline

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) India’s apparel exports have declined by 5.75 per cent to USD 12.92 billion in 2012-13 from USD 13.71 billion in 2011-12 even…
Pulses production shows record growth

Pulses production shows record growth

New Delhi, Arp 30 (KNN)  Owing to the implementation of various government programmes, there has been a tremendous increase of 2.89 million tonnes in…
Unseasonal rains in Kutch cause Rs 35 crore loss to salt cultivators

Unseasonal rains in Kutch cause Rs 35…

From Swati Dayal

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) The unseasonal rains last week in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch have affected the livelihood…
CII offers online classes on credit rating for MSMEs

CII offers online classes on credit rating…

New Delhi, Apr 30, (KNN) Confederation of Indian Industries is offering  online classes on concept of credit rating for MSMEs to help small units.

“CII…
PSUs to give details of purchases from MSMEs

PSUs to give details of purchases from…

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has asked Public Sector Units (PSUs) and other departments to give…
Investment in Tamil Nadu MSMEs triples in last decade

Investment in Tamil Nadu MSMEs triples in…

Chennai, Apr 30 (KNN)  Investment in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tamil Nadu has surged to Rs 8,751.54 crore this year with 83,348…
State Bank of Hyderabad reserves Rs 9000 crore to fund MSMEs

State Bank of Hyderabad reserves Rs 9000…

Coimbatore, Apr 30 (KNN)  The State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) with 39 MSME speciality branches across the country has reserved Rs 9,000 crore for providing…
Commonwealth platform to support low carbon economic growth

Commonwealth platform to support low carbon economic…

New Delhi, Apr 30 (KNN) Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can now benefit from the Commonwealth Environmental Investment Platform (CEIP) that has been designed…
TN govt to buy crayons, colour pencils, sweaters worth Rs 11 crore

TN govt to buy crayons, colour pencils,…

Chennai, Apr 30 (KNN) The Government of Tamil Nadu is planning to buy 12,67,717 lakh crayons for students of class one and two, 22,32,283 lakh colour pencils…
MSMEs  have major share in industrial clusters

MSMEs have major share in industrial clusters

New Delhi, Apr 29 (KNN) The micro, small and medium enterprises have a major share in the nine industrial clusters that have come up in the last three years,…
Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir to get NIFT centres

Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir to get NIFT…

New Delhi, 29 Apr (KNN) Soon there will be two more centres of the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT). The new centres are coming…
Haryana to develop leather cluster in Mewat

Haryana to develop leather cluster in Mewat

Chandigarh, Apr 29 (KNN) Haryana is planning to set up a leather cluster in Mewat to develop and expand the local industry.
 
“The Industrial…
Tea and Coffee Board addresses problems of small growers

Tea and Coffee Board addresses problems of…

New Delhi, Apr 29 (KNN)  Having made a comprehensive analysis of the problems of small tea and coffee growers in the country, the Tea and Coffee Board…
International tea forum to promote interests and tech sharing

International tea forum to promote interests and…

New Delhi, Apr 29 (KNN)  Major tea producing countries, including India have come forward to setup an international tea producers forum (ITPF) that would…