Silk

Imagine silk-based materials that can restore your voice, deliver vaccines painlessly, and release drugs precisely in your body. This seemingly delicate material is proving to be a robust and versatile asset in modern medicine

Indian Silk Industry: This place is very famous for their types of silk

Thirubuvanam Silk sarees are easily identified in the textile industry. This silk is also special because it has got the geographical code. Thirubhuvanam Silk is one of the many prides of Thanjavur district.

Kalyan Grp in talks with investors to sell $200-250mn stake

The company has annual revenues of 94 billion Indian rupees and hopes to touch 150 billion rupees next year. It also plans to expand into Malaysia and Singapore next year in anticipation of a potential listing in 2-3 years, Kalyanaraman said.

Video report: Problems the Indian textile industry faces

India is the world's largest producer of jute. It ranks second in cotton, cotton yarn, silk and cellulosic fibers. At one level this abundant supply of raw materials gives India the competitive advantage but the fundamental problem is price volatility.

Turkey fights for a new prestige

Fifteen hundred years ago the Byzantine Empire stole the secret of making silk from China. The capture of the mulberry silkworm may have seemed a frivolous breakthrough for some - the great historian Edward Gibbon lamented that instead, the Byzantines should have learnt from the Chinese how to operate a printing press.