Cheaper Bank Loans

JK Bank reduces interest rates on student loans while other banks raise theirs.
When all other banks are increasing their lending rates, JK Bank reduced the rate of interest on its Education Loan scheme from 10% to 9% for loans up to Rs.25,000; from 11% to 10% for loans over Rs.25,000 and up to Rs.5.00 lakh; [...]

Ritu Kumar

An interesting article on how the Grande Dame of Indian Fashion today started out.
“I mounted a way-out, futuristic, exhibition, of macho styled kurta-pajamas. These styles, or as we called them kurtas, were designed to be held together with suitcase zips, latched and bolted with hardware from Bagri Market, and patched with arrows of leather and [...]

Interesting Statistics on the Indian Designer wear market

THIS WEEK: THE INDIAN DESIGNER APPAREL MARKET

The Indian apparel market was worth Rs 88,340 crore last year. The total market for designer apparel was Rs 9,835 crore.

Currently, the global designer wear market is worth about Rs 1,62,900 crore. It is growing at 9 per cent every year.

The Indian fashion industry accounts for barely 0.1 per [...]

KSIC employs NIFT designer

KSIC, Karnataka Silk Industries Corporation is going all out to modernise its image. They have always been popular with my grandmother but I guess that they have decided it was time they tried to find newer potential clients.. To that end Mysore Silk has acquired a geographical intent patent and is now bringing out a [...]

Careers in Multimedia: Part 2

Wigan and Leigh http://www.wiganindia.org/
SAE India www.sae.edu
National Insitute of Design www.nid.edu
Arena Multimedia www.arena-multimedia.com
Zed Career Academy www.zcaonline.com
Toonz Animation www.toonzanimationindia.com
Asian Academy of Film and TV www.aaft.com
Picasso Centennial Canadian Animation College
Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics www.maacindia.com
Centre for Developement of Advanced Computing www.cdac.in

Careers in Multimedia

The Numbers:
* According to a NASSCOM study on Animation and Gaming, the Indian animation market is expected to see a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 35% from 2006 – 2009
* The Indian animation market is expected to grow to USD 950 million by 2009
* The Indian Gaming market is expected to grow to USD 300 [...]

WLIFW

The Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week seems to have emerged victorious from the scruffle with Lakme India Fashion week. Upto 75 designers have opted to show their clothes and accessories at the Delhi fashion week.
Read more about the WLIFW here. 

Indian/International?

More and more designers seem to be setting up their stores abroad, the latest designer to do is Payal Singhal, who has just opened her Bridal store in Manhattan.
Another desinger to open a store in America is none other than JJ Valaya, who has opened his flagship store in California.
Read the full story here.
Link to [...]

Indian Students develop Software

Indian students from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technolgy and NIFT develop some cool software to compete for the Imagine Cup, a competition held by Microsoft.
Link to story>

Weaving History

Gargi Gupta of the Business Standard writes about the loss of our traditional textile skills and about the 125 year old company that is doing it’s best to restore that tradition.
Link