<Corporate Update>
- Textile counters sustain activity on improved sentiment
- Reliance is India’s ‘Best Managed Company’ says a BT/A T Kearney study

<Fabrics & Garments>
- Hussain aims at increasing India’s apparel export share to 5%
- Defence lab to develop “smart vest” for health monitoring
- Govt urged to maintain status quo on ICD
- Weak brand image, poor marketing plaguing Indian exports

<Tex Trade Monitor>
- India’s share of world trade touches 0.8 per cent
India is all set to achieve at least one per cent share of the world trade by 2007 well ahead of schedule, having already touched 0.8 per cent by the end of 2002, Mr L Mansingh, director general of foreign trade, (DGFT) said recently.

<TextilEducation>
- Spinning a textile career
- Communication Design emerging as a hot career option
- PAF appointed prime consultant for Ludhiana apparel park

<Edit>
- Machinery uptrend
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<Oped>
- ‘Yes, but the govt and industry need to move faster to make technical textiles the growth engine of the industry’
- Egypt’s cotton cultivation policy undergoing changes

<Performance fabrics>
- Reebok eyes larger canvas for PlayDry apparel
- DuPont’s CoolMax makes sweat a non-issue

<Yarns & Fibres>
- Super Fine shows mixed trend, Medium Coarse steady
- AP govt proposes contract, corporate farming for silk
- AP silk producers emulate Chinese model for rearing cocoons