In this issue
p. 1048

Gresham's Law
p. 1049 | Balaram, P.

Genetically modified crops claim their first victim
p. 1051 | Datta, Subhojit; Lawrence, P. K.; Koundal, K. R.

The fun of holding Indian Science Congress melas
p. 1052 | Virk, H. S.

Problems facing S&T in India
p. 1052 | Kumar, V. Sasi

Issues regarding S&T in India
p. 1053 | Nayudu, M. V.

Science popularization and the Indian Constitution
p. 1054 | Varkey, M. J.

Multi-faceted aspects of tree ring analysis
p. 1054 | Bhattacharyya, Amalava; Singh, B. D.

C. N. R. Rao elected to French Academy
p. 1056

The dilemma of influenza
p. 1057 | Hoyle, Fred; Wickramasinghe, Chandra

From the archives
p. 1059

Random selections
p. 1059

Retrieval of new coloured chrysanthemum through organogenesis from sectorial chimera
p. 1060 | Chakrabarty, Debasis; Mandal, A. K. A.; Datta, S. K.

Cultivation of Himalayan aconites under polyhouse conditions
p. 1062 | Nautiyal, M. C.; Purohit, A. N.

Antagonistic potential of N₂-fixing Acetobacter diazotrophicus against Colletotrichum falcatum Went., a causal organism of red-rot of sugarcane
p. 1063 | Muthukumarasamy, R.; Revathi, G.; Vadivelu, M.

Anomalous stress pattern in Chamoli region observed from IRS-1B data
p. 1066 | Dash, Prasanjit; Singh, Ramesh P.; Voss, Frithjof

Cosmology: Past, present and future
p. 1071 | Narlikar, Jayant V.

Importance of small and moderate size optical telescopes
p. 1076 | Sagar, Ram

Catalysts for plastics - New science for new materials
p. 1082 | Bhaduri, Sumit; Gupta, Virendrakumar

Nanostructured thin films by self-assembly of surface modified colloidal particles
p. 1089 | Sastry, Murali

Atomic displacement parameters of homologous proteins: Conservation of dynamics
p. 1098 | Lenin, V. M. S.; Parthasarathy, S.; Murthy, M. R. N.

Species diversity and relative abundance of lichens in Rumbak catchment of Hemis National Park in Ladakh
p. 1105 | Negi, Hans Raj; Upreti, D. K.

Role of catecholamines and corticosteroids in regulation of the oxidative metabolism in male Clarias batrachus
p. 1112 | Lynshiang, D. S.; Gupta, B. B. P.

Spherically symmetric empty space and its dual in general relativity
p. 1118 | Dadhich, Naresh

Comparative efficacy of Ayush-64 vs chloroquine in vivax malaria
p. 1120 | Valecha, Neena; Devi, C. Usha; Joshi, Hema; Shahi, V. K.; Sharma, V. P.; Lal, Shiv

Correlating dynamics to conformational properties: An analysis of atomic displacement parameters (B-values) in high-resolution protein structures
p. 1123 | Parthasarathy, S.; Murthy, M. R. N.

The plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum, an elegant system to demonstrate the importance of genome integrity in traversing the G2/M checkpoint of the cell cycle
p. 1127 | Jayasree, P. R.; Kumar, P. R. Manish; Nair, R. Vimala

Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation and regeneration of transgenic plants from cotyledon explants of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L. ) via somatic embryogenesis
p. 1130 | Venkatachalam, P.; Geetha, N.; Khandelwal, Abha; Shaila, M. S.; Sita, G. Lakshmi

Blinding induces copulatory activity among inactive males of South Indian gerbils
p. 1136 | Thomas, Biju B.; Oommen, Mathew M.

Large palaeolakes in Kaveri basin in Mysore Plateau: Late Quaternary fault reactivation
p. 1138 | Valdiya, K. S.; Rajagopalan, G.

Occurrence of pteropods in a deep eastern Arabian Sea core: Neotectonic implications
p. 1142 | Singh, A. D.; Schiebel, R.; Nisha, N. R.

Structure of Atomic Nuclei
p. 1145 | Shyam, Radhey

Genetics and the Extinc-tion of Species
p. 1146 | Joshi, Amitabh

Plant Systematics - Theory and Practice
p. 1148 | Matthew, K. M.

Biogeochemistry of Rivers in Tropical South and Southeast Asia
p. 1149 | Sahu, K. C.

Professor Srinivasa R. S. Varadhan
p. 1151 | Athreya, K. B.

On Professor S. R. S. Varadhan's contributions to hydrodynamic limits
p. 1153 | Sethuraman, Sunder

On the Stroock-Varadhan theory of diffusions
p. 1155

Physics in Biology Programme-National Centre for Biological Sciences(NCBS)
p. 1157

Spectr@mind - Scientists for Knowledge Services
p. 1159

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
p. 1160

B.V. Patel Pharmaceutical Education and Research Development (PERD) Centre
p. 1161

Poorna Prajna Institute of Scientific Research
p. 1162

Physical Research Laboratory
p. 1163

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
p. 1163

Central Soil Salinity Research Institute
p. 1164

Journal of Science Education
p. 1164

physical Research Laboratory
p. 1165

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
p. 1165

Current Science-Submission in Electronic Form
p. 1166