BHAGALPUR: The diara villages in the Bhagalpur district seem to be an ideal hotbed for the silk thread smugglers as the silk industry in Bhagalpur thrives on their supply. bhagalpur: the diara ...

Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar may have impressed many by his lucrative “seven resolves”, employment generation and skill development plank but weavers of Bhagalpur are disappointed. Plagued ...

With the world increasingly turning to things organic and China and Thailand substantially eating into the global silk market, Bhagalpur is all set to give a big thrust to its silk industry by going ...

Bhagalpur is one of the largest towns in Bihar. The city was considered a relatively important trade centre in eastern India by the 7th century Chinese travellers Hieun-tsang and Fa-Hien. It once had ...

As a fourth-generation weaver, Sunil Das, 55, cannot remember a time he was not surrounded by silk sarees. Now, he is tired. He bears many burdens: of low wages in the fast-dwindling market for ...

Eastern Bihar Industries Association (EBIA) general secretary Alok Agrawal said those involved in the silk manufacturing trade are apprehensive of more financial losses, if the war continues. PATNA: ...

Bhagalpur, June 25: Anwar Ansari was a busy man till October 1989, his cash registers ringing with a full-fledged manufacturing unit of 22 handlooms and 200 staff at his native Toumani, 40 km from the ...

Dying craft: A worker arranging the silk yarn after it has been dyed. The Central Silk Board has forecast that the country's silk exports will fall to Rs2,000 crore in 2009 after touching a record Rs3 ...

For centuries, it was known as the silk city of India, visited even by Chinese travelers Fa Hien in 399-412 AD and Hiuen Tsang in 635 AD. For, silk gave the city on the southern bank of the Ganga its ...

'I would have registered an attempt to murder case against it,' said Ahad who has been effectively run out of his handloom silk business, thanks to the currency’s plunge to unfathomed depths in recent ...

FDCI X Lakme Fashion Week 2023 started with a bang. 2023's Gen Next batch was introduced to the world and Ashish N Soni showcased his Fall Winter 2023 collection at New Delhi's Pragati Maidan. On day ...