A 17-month-old standoff between India and China in the Himalayan border region of Ladakh is imperiling the six-century-old Pashmina wool industry, which employs almost three-quarters of a million ...

Jigmet Paley has a confession to make: He is really tired. The creases on his 35-year-old face are evidence. The limp in his right leg drives the point home. For three decades, he has been waking up ...

KATMANDU, Nepal – In the foothills of the Himalayas, they're fighting the battle of the pashmina. The enemy in this war: Inexpensive, imitation pashmina wool mainly made in China and India that ...

Call it the New Clone Age, but pashmina wool is on the verge of a science-generated comeback in the Kashmir Valley. The successful cloning of pashmina goat, which produces the famous and pricey ...

After becoming the first country to clone the buffalo, scientists in India are all set to start work on cloning the famous Pashmina goat. NEW DELHI: After becoming the first country to clone the ...

Last year’s unusually dry summer and this winter’s unprecedented snowfall, the worst in nearly 50 years, in Ladakh’s Changtang area has claimed over 18,000 "pashmina" goats. NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Last ...

The Kashmir Chamber of Industries and Commerce (KCCI), a Valley-based traders’ body has raised the issue of confiscation and poor testing of pashmina shawls with the Union Minister for Forest, ...

In the foothills of the Himalayas, they're fighting the battle of the pashmina. The enemy in this war — inexpensive, imitation pashmina wool mainly made in China and India that producers in Nepal say ...