In this issue
p. 0439

Inaction on a Himalayan scandal
p. 0441 | Radhakrishna, B. P.

The quality of research in Current Science
p. 0442 | Mahadevan, S.; Manohar, H.

Indian editions of foreign journals
p. 0442 | Viswanathan, T.

Historical notes
p. 0442 | Kochhar, R. K.

NASA's eye in the sky promises exciting discoveries
p. 0444 | Shankar, Udaya

The Indian space research scenario
p. 0445

Nepotistic bee-eaters
p. 0445 | Gadagkar, Raghavendra; Venkataraman, Arun B.

Food science and technology at the Defence Food Research Laboratory
p. 0447 | Jayaraman, K. S.; Sankaran, R.

Organic compounds and materials science
p. 0452 | Desiraju, Goutam R.

Monte Carlo simulation of random magnets
p. 0456 | Chowdhury, Debashish

Late Miocene rhizomyid rodent-bearing faunule from the Siwalik of Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
p. 0460 | Tiwari, B. N.

Insensitivity of remote sensing to water-logging in low-capillarity soils
p. 0464 | Singh, K. P.

Gypsum from sub-bottom sediments of Kabadevi Bay, off Ratnagiri, India
p. 0465 | Sukumaran, P. V.

Pollen tube growth and site of incompatibility reaction in niger (Guizotia abyssinica Cass. )
p. 0466 | Prasad, Vandana

Requirement of protein synthesis during ripening of abscisic acid-treated mangoes
p. 0468 | Parikh, H. R.; Modi, V. V.

Occurrence of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in some Cymbopogon species of north-east India
p. 0470 | Barthakur, M. (phukan); Bordoloi, D. N.

Phenols and lipids in mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal roots of Sesamum indicum
p. 0471 | Selvaraj, T.; Subramanian, G.

Identification of chromosome segments and structural heteromorphism in Cocculus villosus DC.
p. 0474 | Chattopadhyay, D.; Sharma, A. K.

Influence of light on diosgenin and sterol production in Dioscorea deltoidea callus
p. 0476 | Ravishankar, G. A.; Grewal, S.

Cardol: The antifilarial principle from Anacardium occidentale
p. 0477 | Suresh, M.; Raj, R. Kaleysa

polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in South Indian diet
p. 0480 | Sivaswamy, S. Narender; Balachandran, B.; Sivaramakrishnan, V. M.

Annual Review of Microbiology
p. 0482 | Ramakrishnan, T.

Glimpses of ancient Indian medicine - Part I
p. 0483 | Valiathan, M. S.