In this issue
p. 0532

Information overload
p. 0533 | Balaram, P.

Two views on the atomic bomb
p. 0535 | Ramaseshan, S.

Glory on sale
p. 0535 | Sunder, R.

More suggestions to overcome problems faced by post-docs
p. 0536 | Srivastava, Ajit Kumar

Initiatives to nurture basic science
p. 0537 | Rao, K. Subba

'Mediocre' research on the rise
p. 0537 | Natraj, C. V.

How is ATP synthesized?
p. 0538 | Govil, Girjesh

Reflections on the Indian Science Congress
p. 0538 | Iyer, Sridhar D.

Another Indian optical observation of a gamma-ray burst afterglow from UPSO
p. 0539 | Nainital; Sagar, Ram

Molecular materials are the future
p. 0540 | Tripathi, Shailendra

Incentives to scientists, universities and R&D institutions Extract from Finance Minister's Budget Speech
p. 0541

S&T Budget at a glance
p. 0542

Optical nonlinearities in twin chromophores: An odd story
p. 0542 | Seshadri, Ram

Random selections
p. 0543

Role of entomology in forensic sciences
p. 0544 | Varatharajan, R.; Sen, A.

Laterally heterogeneous seismic vulnerability of the Himalayan arc: A consequence of cratonic and mobile nature of underthrusting Indian crust
p. 0546 | Raval, U.

Protein sequence search tool: A web-based interactive search engine
p. 0550 | Saravanan, S.; Khan, A. Ajmal; Sekar, K.

Mutation at exon 39 of myosin 15 is rare or absent among people with profound sensorineural deafness in Kerala
p. 0553 | Joseph, Anu Yamuna; Menon, U. Ramesh; Rasool, T. J.

Government-industry-civil society partnerships in integrated gene management
p. 0555 | Swaminathan, M. S.

Sustainable forestry in India for carbon mitigation
p. 0563 | Singh, Roma; Lal, M.

Seismic status of Delhi megacity
p. 0568 | Iyengar, R. N.

Programmed cell death
p. 0575 | Saran, Shweta

Current trends in affinity-based separations of proteins/enzymes
p. 0587 | Roy, Ipsita; Gupta, Munishwar Nath

Quasi-cycles in monsoon rainfall by wavelet analysis
p. 0592 | Kailas, Sudarsh V.; Narasimha, R.

Evolution of an atmospheric boundary layer at a tropical semi-arid station, Anand during boreal summer month of May - A case study
p. 0595 | Nagar, S. G.; Tyagi, Ajit; Seetaramayya, P.; Singh, S. S.

Near field CSAMT resistivity and model parameter determination
p. 0601 | Rao, I. B. Ramaprasada; Chary, M. Venkata; Mathur, Ram Raj; Srinivas, S.

Clinopyroxenite xenoliths from the Deccan Trap lavas of Kutch and Mumbai
p. 0607 | Chandrasekharam, D.; Vinod, K. C.

Cloning and characterization of the Plasmodium falciparum adenylo-succinate synthetase gene
p. 0610 | Sumathy, K.; Jayalakshmi, R.; Shivayogi, M. S.; Balaram, Hemalatha

An agar plate assay to detect cell wall active antifungal agents
p. 0615 | Dikshit, Vidula R.; Desai, Pragna D.

Spatial variation in the capacity of soil for CH₄ uptake and population size of methane oxidizing bacteria in dryland rice agriculture
p. 0617 | Dubey, S. K.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Singh, J. S.

Somatic embryogenesis and plantlet regeneration from leaf explants of Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn. : A soapnut tree
p. 0620 | Sinha, R. K.; Majumdar, K.; Sinha, S.

Recovery of in vitro cotton shoots through micrografting
p. 0623 | Banerjee, A. K.; Agrawal, D. C.; Nalawade, S. M.; Krishnamurthy, K. V.

The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity
p. 0627 | Dadhich, N. K.

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 1998
p. 0629 | Gupta, S. K.; Kailas, S.

Neural Networks and Analog Computation
p. 0631 | Patnaik, L. M.

In Vivo Models of Inflammation
p. 0631 | Mohanty, Mira

A History of Molecular Biology
p. 0633 | Lakhotia, S. C.

Chidambara Chandrasekaran (1911-2000) - An obituary
p. 0635 | Srikantan, K. Sivaswamy

A conversation with Satyendranath Bose about five decades ago - Some recollections
p. 0636 | Ramaseshan, S.

Publications received
p. 0639

Special Section on Computational Science
p. 0642

High Performance Computing (HIPC)
p. 0643

Department of Science and Technology
p. 0644

Poorna Prajna Institute of Scientific Research
p. 0645

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
p. 0646

Jamal Mohamed College
p. 0647

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Biophysics
p. 0647

National Research Centre on Equines
p. 0648

Pondicherry University
p. 0648

Central Institute of Fisheries Technology
p. 0649

School of Environmental Sciences
p. 0649

Leadership for Environment And Development(LEAD)-India
p. 0649

Map India 2000
p. 0650