In this issue
p. 0732

Macaulay's children
p. 0733 | Balaram, P.

Politeness or fear of dissenting?
p. 0735 | Reddy, Amulya K. N.

Bhrigu-Samhita: An ancient manuscript with medical matters of interest
p. 0735 | Vaidya, Ashok D. B.

Losing innocence to big science
p. 0736 | Khan, M. Y.

Social geology
p. 0736 | Biyani, A. K.

A synthesis of sedimentary geochemical processes in and around Carlsberg Ridge
p. 0737 | Banerjee, Ranadip

Curtain raiser to the forthcoming Third World Academy of Sciences' 8th General Conference in New Delhi
p. 0738 | Sen, Nirupa

A public-private partnership agreement signed in the area of bioinformatics, and announcement of the complete genomic sequencing of Indian isolate of hepatitis-C
p. 0739 | Sen, Nirupa

Fund for improvement on S&T infrastructure in universities and higher educational institutions (FIST)
p. 0740

Inter­action meetings: Value addition in DST's R&D projects on animal sciences
p. 0741 | Singh, Bhanu Pratap

From the archives
p. 0742

Actuators based on electroactive polymers
p. 0743 | Sahoo, Hemantkumar; Pavoor, Tej; Vancheeswaran, Sreekanth

Identification of a gene associated with Bt resistance in the lepidopteran pest, Heliothis virescens and its implications in Bt transgenic-based pest control
p. 0746 | Nagaraju, J.

Can insects seriously affect the power output of wind turbines?
p. 0747 | Shankar, P. N.

Is the national wheat breeding programme demand-driven? - An analysis
p. 0749 | Mohan, D.; Nagarajan, S.; Singh, R. V. P.; Shoran, Jag

Occurrence of gold in association with uranium in Gulcheru quartzite of Cuddapah basin, Gandi-Rachakuntapalle area, Cuddapah district, Andhra Pradesh
p. 0754 | Umamaheswar, K.; Sharma, U. P.; Zakaulla, Syed; Basu, Himadri; Thomas, Anita Mary; Ali, Mir Azam

Record of genus Hausmannia Dunker from the Upper Gondwana of Bairam-Belkher area, Amravati district, Maharashtra and Betul district, Madhya Pradesh
p. 0756 | Srivastava, A. K.; Manik, S. R.; Patil, G. V.; Gawande, R. R.

Fish otoliths from the subsurface Cambay Shale (Lower Eocene), Surat lignite field, Gujarat (India)
p. 0758 | Samant, Bandana; Bajpai, Sunil

The role of space science in space weather specification: An illustration with auroral studies
p. 0760 | Uberoi, Chanchal

Zinc resistance mechanisms in bacteria
p. 0768 | Choudhury, R.; Srivastava, S.

A case of high tree diversity in a sal (Shorea robusta)-dominated lowland forest of Eastern Himalaya: Floristic composition, regeneration and conservation
p. 0776 | Shankar, Uma

Anti-cancer copper salicylaldoxime complex inhibits topoisomerase II catalytic activity
p. 0787 | Jayaraju, D.; Kondapi, Anand K.

Indoor aeromycoflora of Baroda museum and deterioration of Egyptian mummy
p. 0793 | Arya, Arun; Shah, A. R.; Sadasivan, Satish

Phenology of understorey species of tropical moist forest of Western Ghats region of Uttara Kannada district in South India
p. 0799 | Bhat, D. M.; Murali, K. S.

Age of the Lower Vindhyan sediments, Central India
p. 0806 | Kumar, Anil; Gopalan, K.; Rajagopalan, G.

Earthquakes over Kutch: A region of 'trident' space--time geodynamics
p. 0809 | Raval, U.

Marine magnetic anomalies near the Barren Island volcano, Andaman Sea
p. 0816 | Banerjee, B.; Shaw, R. K.

Effect of heavy metal pollution on growth, carotenoid content and bacterial flora in the gut of Perna viridis (L. ) in in situ condition
p. 0819 | Tewari, A.; Joshi, H. V.; Raghunathan, C.; Kumar, V. G. Sravan; Khambhaty, Yasmin

Submerged beach ridge lineation and associated sedentary fauna in the innershelf of Gopalpur coast, Orissa, Bay of Bengal
p. 0828 | Rao, K. Mohana; Murthy, K. S. R.; Reddy, N. P. C.; Subrahmanyam, A. S.; Lakshminarayana, S.; Rao, M. M. M.; Sarma, K. V. L. N. S.; Premkumar, M. K.; Sree, A.; Bapuji, M.

Insect visits to some bamboos of the Western Ghats, India
p. 0833 | Koshy, K. C.; Harikumar, D.; Narendran, T. C.

Erratum
p. 0838

How the Brain Learns
p. 0839 | Mohanakumar, K. P.

Kinetics and Applications of Atomic Diffusion in Solids: Nanoscopic Electron-affected Stochastic Dynamics
p. 0839 | Rao, K. R.

Phytochemical Biopesticides
p. 0841 | Raman, Anantanarayanan; Hossain, Zamir

Fred Hoyle: Scientist of multifaceted talents
p. 0843 | Narlikar, J. V.

T. S. Sadasivan - A tribute
p. 0845 | Balasubramanian, D.

NCBS Symposium on Cancer and Cell Death
p. 0847

Indian Academy of Sciences: Workshop on Analysis, Probability and Statistics
p. 0848

DST: Beamtime Allocation on Italian Synchrotron
p. 0849

DBT: Indo-US Programme on Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Research
p. 0850

DST: Nano-Science and Technology
p. 0851

Indian Institute of Science: RA/JRF
p. 0852

Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar
p. 0853

IndOcean: A Database of Abstracts
p. 0854

MAHARASHTRA ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY-Bombay Veterinary College, Mumbai
p. 0854

The Institute of Science, Mumbai
p. 0855

KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY-College of Fisheries, Kochi
p. 0855

OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CELL BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY-National Symposium on Marine Ecology, Bhavnagar
p. 0856

SPONSORED RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY-IIT Kharagpur: SRF, RA
p. 0856

International Symposium on Tuberculosis, AstraZeneca
p. 0857

CDFD, Hyderabad
p. 0857

IIT Bombay
p. 0858

Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
p. 0858

IIT Kharagpur: RA, JRF
p. 0859

Pachhunga University College, Aizawl
p. 0859

National Seminar on Science, Scientists & Society
p. 0859

Current Science, Special Section: Science in the Third World
p. 0860