The WHO-recognised World Cotton Day (WCD) is every year on October 07 since 2019 to celebrate the international cotton industry and its contribution to communities and the global economy.
The State Bank of India has partnered with the Indian Navy to launch a NAV-eCash card for the naval personnel onboard the country's largest Naval Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.
The Centre has approved the setting up of seven new mega textile parks, or PM MITRA parks across the country to help to further the growth of the textile sector in the economy and position India strongly on the Global textiles map.
Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.