In this issue
p. 0319

Deserting disciplines
p. 0321 | Balaram, P.

Pokhran-II - A strategic blunder?
p. 0323 | Ghosh, J. K.

Nuclear buttons for everybody
p. 0324 | Pati, Vishwambhar

Will weaponization make us secure?
p. 0325 | Chatterjee, S.; Vyasulu, Vinod

Manipulation of ammonia assimilation in improvement of nitrogen use efficiency
p. 0325 | Singh, Rana Pratap; Jaiwal, Pawan K.

Reviewing: A disliked necessity
p. 0326 | Gopal, Brij

Biotechnology: Human resource development
p. 0327 | Srinivasan, M. C.

Sol gel process for making ceramic fibres
p. 0328 | Ramaseshan, S.

New elements discovered and the island of stability sighted
p. 0328 | Rao, K. R.

New explanation of the geological evolution of the Indian subcontinent
p. 0331 | Sankaran, A. V.

Urban air pollution
p. 0334 | Ramalingaswami, V.

Susceptibility of brinjal shoot and fruit borer to the d -endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis
p. 0336 | Rao, N. G. V.; Majumdar, A.; Mandaokar, A. D.; Nimbalkar, S. A.; Kumar, P. Ananda

Siderophore production by Aspergillus niger AN27, a biocontrol agent
p. 0337 | Mondal, Goutam; Sen, Bineeta

A comparison of eye and body surface between surface and cave-dwelling millipedes
p. 0339 | Koilraj, A. John; Marimuthu, G.

Science in response to basic human needs
p. 0341 | Swaminathan, M. S.

Young scientist award - Does it encourage scientific independence and advancement?
p. 0353 | Mallick, Sukumar; Panchnadikar, Vinita; Tewari, Ruchira; Khilnani, Sushila

Emissions of nitrous oxide from soil
p. 0359 | Pathak, Himanshu

Persistence in nonequilibrium systems
p. 0370 | Majumdar, Satya N.

Kinetics of phase ordering
p. 0376 | Puri, Sanjay

Arrested states of solids
p. 0382 | Rao, Madan; Sengupta, Surajit

Sandpile models of self-organized criticality
p. 0388 | Manna, S. S.

Nonequilibrium growth problems
p. 0394 | Mukherji, Sutapa; Bhattacharjee, Somendra M.

Suspensions far from equilibrium
p. 0402 | Ramaswamy, Sriram

Vehicular traffic: A system of interacting particles driven far from equilibrium
p. 0411 | Chowdhury, Debashish; Santen, Ludger; Schadschneider, Andreas

Dynamical transitions in network models of collective computation
p. 0420 | Sinha, Sitabhra; Chakrabarti, Bikas K.

Quantitative delineation of karyotype variation in Papaver as a measure of phylogenetic differentiation and origin
p. 0429 | Lavania, U. C.; Srivastava, Sangeeta

A novel parallel-stranded DNA helix with non-canonical A-T and G-C base pairing in synthetic dodecamers
p. 0436 | Saha, Tapas; Roy, Kunal B.

Partial characterization of goat brain proteins involved in bilirubin binding Mohd.
p. 0440 | Khan, Mushahid; Tayyab, Saad

Somatic instability for chlorophyll pigmentation in cotton (Gossypium spp. )
p. 0443 | Sheshagiri, R.; Khadi, B. M.

A new seismic hazard map for the Indian plate region under the global seismic hazard assessment programme
p. 0447 | Kumar, M. Ravi; Bhatia, S. C.

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 1998
p. 0454 | Kembhavi, Ajit

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 1998
p. 0455 | Sathyamurthy, N.

Oxidative Stress in Skeletal Muscle
p. 0456 | Kartha, C. C.

Lipids in Photosynthesis - Structure, Function and Genetics
p. 0457 | Mohanty, Prasanna

Lord Phillips of Ellesmere KBE, FRS (1924-1999) Louise
p. 0459 | Johnson, N.

Postdoctoral Research Programme in Biotechnology and Life Sciences
p. 0461

Chemical Research Society of India
p. 0462

Indian National Science Academy-Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
p. 0463

International Foundation for Science(IFS)
p. 0464

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
p. 0465

Ministry of Science and Technology Department of Biotechnology
p. 0467

Water Technology Centre-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
p. 0469

The Institute of Mathematical Science-IMSc Associateships for University Teachers
p. 0470

Department of Chemical Technology-University of Mumbai
p. 0470

Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
p. 0471

Loyola Institute of Frontier Energy(LIFE) and Department of Chemistry
p. 0471

Interaction Meeting on Herpetological Ecology
p. 0472

JSPS Ronpaku (Dissertation Ph.D.) Programme 2000-2001
p. 0473

Department of Science and Technology STA Fellowships 1999
p. 0475