In this issue
p. 0728

Ministering Science and Technology
p. 0729 | Balaram, P.

Pointless participation and pointless protests
p. 0731 | Vidyasagar, M.; Karandikar, Rajeeva

Deteriorating infrastructural facilities in our universities
p. 0731 | Mehrotra, R. C.

Debating Pokharan-II
p. 0732 | Tiwari, S. C.

Election fever versus scientists' anguish
p. 0733 | Bamji, Mahtab S.

Lesser dog-faced fruit bat in Southern India
p. 0734 | Varshney, R. K.

Lesser dog-faced fruit bat in Southern India(Response)
p. 0734 | Balasingh, J.

Gravity image of India: Regional tectonic interpretations
p. 0735 | Sinha-roy, S.

Gravity image of India: Regional tectonic interpretations(Response)
p. 0735 | Babu, H. V. Ram

World conference on science
p. 0736 | Tandon, P. N.

Nuclear isomers revisited
p. 0738 | Kailas, S.

The Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture is proved
p. 0739 | Khare, Chandrashekhar B.

The Kumbha melas of science: Time to kill (them)
p. 0739 | Ganeshaiah, K. N.

Database service centres for scientific research
p. 0741 | Jeevan, V. K. J.

Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with grain filling duration in rice (oryza Sativa L. )
p. 0743 | Bagali, Prashanth G.; Shashidhar, H. E.; Hittalmani, Shailaja; Huang, Ning

New record of the sympatric distribution of two Asian species of the horseshoe crab
p. 0746 | Chatterji, Anil

Average intrinsic QS in the crust and uppermost 8 km of mantle in the Ganga Plains, Bihar
p. 0748 | Kumar, Dinesh; Khattri, K. N.

Mathematics at the turn of the millennium
p. 0750 | Griffiths, Phillip A.

SQUIDS - Highly sensitive magnetic sensors
p. 0759 | Janawadkar, M. P.; Baskaran, R.; Saha, Rita; Gireesan, K.; Nagendran, R.; Vaidhyanathan, L. S.; Jayapandian, J.; Radhakrishnan, T. S.

The North-South divide and the compulsions for the 21st century
p. 0770 | Daniel, R. R.

Leaf senescence: Physiology and molecular biology
p. 0775 | Biswal, Basanti; Biswal, U. C.

Coexistence of regularity and irregularity in a nonlinear dynamical system
p. 0783 | Yajnik, Kirit S.

Studies of ultra-thin Bi films quench-condensed on solid inert gas and other substrates
p. 0794 | Sambandamurthy, G.; Gupta, K. Das; Moorthy, V. H. S.; Chandrasekhar, N.

More about the Raman modes
p. 0803 | Viswanathan, K. S.

Aggregation of shape-altered erythrocytes: An in vitro study
p. 0805 | Ramakrishnan, S.; Grebe, R.; Singh, M.; Schmid-schonbein, H.

Does the Natural resistance associated macrophage protein (Nramp) gene confer resistance/susceptibility in bovines against mycobacterial infection?
p. 0809 | Kumar, G. S. Naveen; Govindiah, M. G.; Nagaraj, C. S.; Bindu, A.; Rasool, T. J.

Spectrin exhibits chaperone-like activity
p. 0812 | Chakrabarti, Abhijit; Bhattacharya, Shekhar

Plant diversity and community patterns along the disturbance gradient in plantation forests of sal (Shorea robusta Gaertn. )
p. 0814 | Pandey, S. K.; Shukla, R. P.

A novel synthesis of bicyclo (3. 1. 0. ) hexane system from Carvone
p. 0818 | Sayed, Alim A.; Wadia, M. S.

Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero
p. 0821 | Valluri, S. R.

Annual Review of Medicine: Selected Topics in Clinical Sciences
p. 0822 | Sivasankaran, S.

The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses
p. 0825 | Borges, Renee M.

Earthquakes in ancient India
p. 0825 | Iyengar, R. N.

D. J. Jussawalla - An obituary
p. 0830 | Kamat, M. R.

Madurai Kamaraj University
p. 0831

Centre for Biochemical Technology-Biomedical Scientists Wanted
p. 0831

Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy
p. 0832

Hari Om Ashram Prerit Shri S.S. Bhatnagar Research Award Endowment
p. 0832

Centre for Sponsored Schemes and Projects
p. 0833

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
p. 0834

Centre of Plasma Physics - Recruitment of Senior Research Fellow
p. 0834

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education-Visiting Fellowships at HBCSE
p. 0835

68th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists, Indai Symposium on Current Trends in Biology
p. 0836

Department of Entomology - Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth
p. 0836