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TopicTiruppur

Topic: Tiruppur

Chennai station is packed with migrant workers returning to UP, Bihar from Tiruppur

Exporters are forced to shut additional units. For migrant workers, it means a choice between fewer days of work and less wages, or leaving the city in search of survival.

Tiruppur orders on hold, pressure to sell cheap, Diwali fears—Trump tariff & Tamil Nadu hub

Senior knitwear workers recalled past slumps, including the 2008 financial crisis, GST rollout, and Covid-19. ‘Each time, the industry adapted until the scenario returned to normal.’

In Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur, Bihari migrants are the new business bosses. Who do they employ?

Many migrant workers have reinvented themselves as entrepreneur-owners of textile units in Tiruppur, the export hub of Tamil Nadu. They call it ‘Tiruppur ka jadoo’.

How Tiruppur bounced back to Tommy, Zara & GAP after making masks and PPE kits in lockdown

Tiruppur garment industry resumes operations and is back to catering to orders from US, Australia and Europe. It now hopes to replace China as export hub.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

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

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

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.