<Dyes & Chemicals>
- DMAI expects amended realistic effluent treatment norms by next year
- ‘R&D, international marketing, pollution control have been the thrust’
- What’s behind that wrinkle free finish?

<Fabrics & Garments>
- Exports record 6% fall during Jan-May, 2002
- SRTEPC’s Indian Textile Exhibition in Bangladesh evokes good response
- AEPC eyes ambitious US$ 6 bn export target for 2003-03
- National Garment Fair in Mumbai from August 7 to 9

<News & Views>
- EICA introduces online trading in cotton futures
- More credit facilities needed for SSIs: PHDCCI
- Centre to give financial aid to 308 factories in Gujarat
- ASEAN aims to break free from China’s shadow, speeds up AFTA

<Oped>
- Controversy over CAB’s estimate of cotton imports

- High hopes and cynicism greet birth of African Union

<Tex Trade Monitor>
- Sowing in full swing in cotton states
- IPRs should not become barriers to world trade: WTO

<Yarns & Fibres>
- Cotton prices show marginal gains
- Jute Advisory Board intervention sought to stop JPMA dilution

<Edit>
- Dhirubhai, the Dream Merchant
- Cotton cultivation scenario in Gujarat - II
- US farmers reap biotech benefits, increase proportion of plantings

<Corporate Update>
- Selling pressure pulls Sensex down
- GTN Textiles begins Rs 40-cr technology upgradation
- Birla VXL to cut 400 jobs