In this issue
p. 0003

Fancy and facts in science and art
p. 0005 | Prasanna, B. M.

Distortion of Indian degrees
p. 0006 | Roy, S. C. Dutta

Amending the Patents Act-An appeal from the National working group on Patent laws
p. 0007

Binding and release of polypeptides during groEl-mediated folding: Its cellular significance?
p. 0009 | Chaudhuri, Amitabha

Importance of basic research in the context of global change
p. 0012 | Chidambaram, R.

Census of India's biodiversity: Tasks ahead
p. 0014 | Khoshoo, T. N.

Record of opal phytoliths and associated palynofossils from Indian crude oils
p. 0017 | Misra, C. M.; Saxena, R. K.

Massif-type anorthosite near Ayialur, Dindigul, Anna District, Tamil Nadu, South India
p. 0021 | Arumugam, M.; Kumar, R. Senthil

A technique for axenic culture of Puccinia romagnoliana--A potential bioherbicide for purple nutsedge
p. 0021 | Bedi, J. S.; Kaur, Ravinder; Sokhi, S. S.

Polyphenolic components of flowers of Helichrysum bracteatum
p. 0023 | Sivakumar, R.; Nair, A. G. Ramachandran; Madhusudhanan, K. P.

Reviving experimental physics in the universities - The IUC initiative
p. 0025 | Ramaseshan, S.

Modern science and technology: The public perception
p. 0029 | Govindarajulu, V.

Impact of extreme events on coastal zones and small islands in the context of climate change
p. 0039 | Kulshrestha, S. M.

New pressure-induced phase changes in CdWO₄ from Raman spectroscopic and optical microscopic studies
p. 0044 | Jayaraman, A.; Wang, S. Y.; Sharma, S. K.

Analysis of a conformation-specific epitope of the alpha subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin: Study using monoclonal antibody probes
p. 0048 | Venkatesh, N.; Nagaraja, G.; Murthy, G. S.

On minimum metallic diffusivity in disordered conductors
p. 0057 | Kumar, N.; Jayannavar, A. M.

An ab initio topographical investigation on the molecular electrostatic potential of some chemical mutagens
p. 0058 | Bhattacharjee, Apurba K.; Pundlik, Savita S.; Gadre, Shridhar R.

Record of 1. 66-Ga-old marine oxido-reducing conditions from an unusual Sargipali Pb-Cu deposit (India): A preliminary appraisal through petrogenesis
p. 0062 | Vishwakarma, Rajesh K.

Characterization of humic acids isolated from soils under mulberry vegetation
p. 0067 | Kar, R.; Majumder, S. K.; Dutta, R. N.

Contributions to Operator Theory and its Applications
p. 0069 | Bhatia, Rajendra

Science in Society: Some Perspectives
p. 0069 | Parthasarathy, R.

Annual Review of Cell Biology 1994
p. 0071 | Parnaik, Veena K.

Environment and Adaptive Biology of Plants
p. 0072 | Daniels, R. J. Ranjit

A pioneer in modern plasma physics, an obituary of Hannes Alfven
p. 0073 | Sen, Abhijit; Kaw, P. K.

Remembering Hannes Alfven and his work
p. 0074 | Uberoi, Chanchal

Professor S. N. Bose's contribution to quantum statistics-A critical review
p. 0076 | Das, S. K.; Sengupta, S.

Meetings/Symposia/Seminars
p. 0080