Fire sweeps through historic 60,000-square-foot textile mill overlooking Maine waterfall

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran will inaugurate the Gujarat Eco Textile Park setup under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) at Surat on Wednesday. The park has been set up in an area of 104 acres, at a cost of Rs.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Though the overall economy has started showing signals of an early recovery, the country's textile sector, the second largest employment provider, is still struggling with the slowdown, an industry report said Monday. The report by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) said decline in textile exports and massive layoffs in the industry were still continuing.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's textile industry was hit hard by the global slowdown last year, with the handloom and powerloom production declining 3.8 and 3.2 percent respectively, a union minister said Wednesday. According to the provisional data available, production in the handloom sector in 2008-09 stood at 6,677 million square metres, as compared to 6,947 million square metres the year before, Minister of State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi told the Rajya Sabha.

July 17th, 2009 Investigators say Maine mill fire was arsonLEWISTON, Maine — Investigators say a fire that swept through a historic textile mill in Maine's second-largest city was a case of arson. Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland says fire marshal investigators reached the conclusion working with Lewiston police and fire officials and investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

July 4th, 2009 Firefighters battle big blaze at shuttered SC millROCK HILL, S.C. — A shuttered mill in northwestern South Carolina has caught fire, spewing clouds of dense, black smoke visible for miles.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three people, including a 12-year-old, died early Friday after a wall of a mill collapsed here, police said. The wall of a pulse mill in Narela, northwest Delhi, collapsed and fell on an adjacent house.

June 18th, 2009 Fraser Papers seeks protection from creditorsPORTLAND, Maine — Fraser Papers Inc. is filing for protection from creditors in courts in Canada and the U.S., and says its mills in Maine and New Hampshire will continue to operate without disruption.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will exempt the slowdown-hit textile sector from service tax as part of its short-term strategy to bail out the industry, Minister for Textiles Dayanidhi Maran said here Friday. As part of our short-term strategy for the textile industry, we will try to rationalise fiscal structure, exempt service tax, reduce interest rates on pre and post-shipment credit and facilitate faster clearance of arrears, Maran said here while releasing a report on the effects of the slowdown on the textile sector.

June 10th, 2009 Burned Maine topless coffee shop reopens in a tentVASSALBORO, Maine — A topless coffee shop in Maine is now shopless after a fire, but waitresses are serving coffee again. The Grand View Coffee Shop returned to business this week in a tent, but the waitresses are covering up.

June 7th, 2009 Burned Maine topless coffee shop seeks donationsVASSALBORO, Maine — The owner of a Maine topless coffee shop destroyed by fire says he plans to have clothed waitresses collect donations in the parking lot to raise money to rebuild. Under town zoning rules, Donald Crabtree would need a new permit to start operating his business from a trailer or other structure on the property in Vassalboro, just north of Augusta.

June 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - A decline in export orders has adversely affected the textile industry in Bangalore. Around 35 million people employed in the industry have been hit hard.

June 3rd, 2009 Fire guts topless coffee shop in MaineVASSALBORO, Maine — A topless coffee shop in Maine has been gutted by fire. The blaze was reported at about 1 a.m.

April 24th, 2009 Crew finally removes bloated bull carcass in MaineRUMFORD, Maine — A public works crew retrieved the bloated carcass of a bull that had floated down the Androscoggin River and over a waterfall before landing on some boulders weeks ago. Crewman Dan Peare told the Sun Journal of Lewiston that he convinced his bosses that he and fellow crewmen could and should remove the animal before warm weather arrived for the weekend.

April 21st, 2009 Police seek way to dispose of dead cow in riverRUMFORD, Maine — Rumford officials are trying to figure out what do with the bloated carcass of a cow that floated down the Androscoggin River and over a waterfall before landing on some rocks, where it has remained for nearly three weeks. Police Sgt. David Bean told the Sun Journal of Lewiston that the Hereford cow is in a seemingly unreachable position, lying in the middle of pile of rocks about 100 feet below the river bank.

January 20th, 2009 SURAT - The Income Tax department continued search and seizure operations for the second day Wednesday, raiding 14 more textile units in this south Gujarat city to unearth unaccounted income. On Tuesday, the department had targeted 40 textile and paint manufacturing units.