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p. 0907

G. N. Ramachandran
p. 0909 | Balaram, P.; Ramaseshan, S.

The Gujarat earthquake catastrophe - Lessons to be learnt for disaster preparedness
p. 0911 | Roonwal, G. S.

Health hazards of mosquito repellants
p. 0911 | Shashidhar, V. R.

Taxonomy in India
p. 0912 | Sundaresan, V.; Kathiravan, K.; Seshadri, S.; Ignacimuthu, S.

Regional biosystematic research centres
p. 0913 | Ananthakrishnan, T. N.

New developments in superconductivity
p. 0914 | Rao, K. R.

India to host International Chemistry Olympiad in Mumbai
p. 0914 | Kumar, Arvind; Sathyamurthy, N.

Indo-French workshop on weak intermolecular interactions
p. 0915 | Nangia, Ashwini K.; Fourmigué, Marc

Antiplasmodial effect of three medicinal plants: A preliminary study
p. 0917 | Devi, C. Usha; Valecha, Neena; Atul, P. K.; Pillai, C. R.

Food of the snail, Pomacea bridgesi, introduced in India
p. 0919 | Aditya, G.; Raut, S. K.

Endurance exercise-induced alterations in antioxidant enzymes of old albino male rats
p. 0921 | Sriram, K. Indira; Lakshmi, Ch. Jhansi

Population fluctuation of entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis sp. in South Andaman as influenced by weather parameters
p. 0923 | Prasad, G. Shyam; Singh, P. K.; Ranganath, H. R.

Technological developments and cotton production in India and China
p. 0925 | Choudhary, Bhagirath; Laroia, Gaurav

Phytomelanin in Compositae
p. 0933 | Pandey, A. K.; Dhakal, M. R.

Forest cover assessment in western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh using IRS 1C/1D WiFS data
p. 0941 | Joshi, P. K.; Singh, Sarnam; Agarwal, Shefali; Roy, P. S.

Colloidal dispersions and phase transitions in charged colloids
p. 0948 | Tata, B. V. R.

Laser-induced freezing in 2-d colloids
p. 0959 | Das, Chinmay; Chaudhuri, Pinaki; Sood, A. K.; Krishnamurthy, H. R.

Micellar structure and inter-micelle interactions in micellar solutions: Results of small angle neutron scattering studies
p. 0972 | Goyal, P. S.; Aswal, V. K.

Vesicles and worm-like micelles: Structure, dynamics and transformations
p. 0980 | Hassan, P. A.; Narayanan, Janaky; Manohar, C.

Uses and applications of microemulsions
p. 0990 | Paul, Bidyut K.; Moulik, Satya P.

Block copolymers - Their microdomain formation (in solid state) and surfactant behaviour (in solution)
p. 1002 | Bahadur, Pratap

Dynamics in thermoreversible polymer gels
p. 1008 | Bohidar, H. B.

Recent advances in thermotropic liquid crystals
p. 1018 | Madhusudana, N. V.

Elasticity of thermotropic liquid crystals
p. 1026 | Singh, Yashwant

Vortex matter and its phase transitions
p. 1036 | Chaddah, P.; Roy, S. B.

Assessment of genetic variability and strain identification of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae using RAPD-PCR and IS1112-based PCR
p. 1043 | Gupta, V. S.; Rajebhosale, M. D.; Sodhi, M.; Singh, Sukhwinder; Gnanamanickam, S. S.; Dhaliwal, H. S.; Ranjekar, P. K.

Application of PCR fingerprinting techniques for identification and discrimination of Salmonella isolates
p. 1049 | Tikoo, Anjali; Tripathi, A. K.; Verma, S. C.; Agrawal, N.; Nath, Gopal

Dinosaur bones from Meghalaya
p. 1053 | Mishra, U. K.; Sen, S.

Disturbance time variation of geomagnetic vertical field in the Indian equatorial electrojet
p. 1056 | Rastogi, R. G.

Major lineaments and gravity-magnetic trends in Saurashtra, India (1059) | Research Communications
p. 1059 | Mishra, D. C.; Singh, Bijendra; Gupta, S. B.; Rao, M. R. K. Prabhakar; Singh, A. P.; Chandrasekhar, D. V.; Hodlur, G. K.; Rao, M. B. S. V.; Tiwari, V. M.; Laxman, G.; Raju, D. Ch. Venkata; Kumar, V. Vijaya; Rajesh, R. S.; Rao, V. Babu; Chetty, T. R. K.

A note on palaeomagnetic evidence to show tectonic deformation in the Deccan Volcanic Province of Saurashtra, western India
p. 1067 | Sethna, S. F.; Sethna, B. S.; Kothare, Prajakta; Rao, D. R. K.; Saraf, P. D.; Venkateshwarlu, M.; Patil, S. K.

Plant Breeding - Theory and Practice
p. 1070 | Gupta, P. K.

Annual Review of Phytopathology
p. 1071 | Shetty, H. Shekar

National Brain Research Centre
p. 1073

The Pratima and Sucharu Chakravarty Samman
p. 1073

14th World Congress of International Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine
p. 1074

National Institute of Research on Jute & Allied Fibre Technology
p. 1074

Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station
p. 1075

Central Soil Salinity Research Institute
p. 1076

National workshop on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Modifications and Characterization by Ion Beam
p. 1076

Regional Plant Resource Centre
p. 1077

National Centre for Biological Sciences
p. 1077

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
p. 1078

Kerala Agricultural University
p. 1078

Indian Academy of Sciences
p. 1078

Eklavya Electronic Form
p. 1079

Editorial Office
p. 1080