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Topic: Textile

Home Science is ditching ‘cooking & stitching’ tag. It’s a quiet transformation despite stereotypes

+TFP Fareeha Iftikhar - September 16, 2025

Once seen as a course for women to learn home management, Home Science has transformed into a rigorous, multidisciplinary field blending biology, chemistry, economics, psychology and sociology.

DPIIT collaborates with Bhaane Group for startup incubation

ThePrint Team - January 24, 2025

Bhaane Group, an apparel manufacturer, will leverage its expertise to provide market insights and operational guidance to the selected startups.

Union Textiles Minister inaugurates new IIHT campus in West Bengal’s Fulia

ThePrint Team - January 6, 2025

The state-of-the-art facility aims to boost handloom technology education and cater to students from West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Sikkim.

Smriti Irani’s wish for her epitaph shows she is a rare politician who can laugh at herself

Pradeep Chhibber - August 1, 2020

In ‘India Tomorrow’, Pradeep Chhibber and Harsh Shah talk to textile and WCD minister Smriti Irani on BJP, being a woman leader and what she wants to be remembered for.

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Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

MH Mody - February 21, 2026

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

AI is officially ruining social media. It made brainrot boring

February 21, 2026

Bangladesh lost on all fronts under Yunus. A herculean task awaits the new PM

February 21, 2026

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian - February 18, 2026

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

Snehesh Alex Philip - February 20, 2026

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.