In this issue
p. 0347

Environmental politics: The Asian brown cloud
p. 0349 | Balaram, P.

Health situation in the relief camps of Ahmedabad
p. 0351 | Zachariah, Anand; Vyas, Fredrick; Jonathan; Bhattacharji, Sara; Gaitonde, Rakhal; Subhashri, B.; Hemamalini, V.; Sukanya, R.

Research non-guides
p. 0351 | Parthasarathy, R.

Is mathematics research in India on the decline?
p. 0353 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

An approach to sustainable food security
p. 0354 | Kumar, Sushil

Diabetes research in India
p. 0355 | Marita, A. Rosalind

Diabetes research in India(Reply)
p. 0356 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

Regional Engineering Colleges go national
p. 0356 | Sen, Nirupa

Doctor on wheels
p. 0357 | Sen, Nirupa

Fusion technology project to get more funds
p. 0357 | Narayanan, P. M.

Retraction of published claim for observation of superheavy element 118
p. 0357 | Rao, K. R.

Enhanced Research Fellowships
p. 0358

China promotes traditional medicine
p. 0358 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

Women in physics
p. 0359 | Godbole, Rohini M.; Gupte, Neelima; Rao, Sumathi

Dichotomy between grain surplus and widespread endemic hunger
p. 0361 | Swaminathan, M. S.

Search for the elusive end-Permian bolide impact: Exotic carbon - fullerene, as a potential tracer
p. 0363 | Sankaran, A. V.

From the archives
p. 0365

The new international seed treaty: Promises and prospects for food security
p. 0366 | Choudhary, Bhagirath

Random selections
p. 0370

The sedge Eleocharis dulcis (Burm f. ) Henschel (Cyperaceae) traps rice white stem borer Scirpophaga innotata (Walker) (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae) in Andamans
p. 0371 | Ranganath, H. R.; Prasad, G. Shyam; Sheeba

PCR-fingerprinting of some Trichoderma isolates from two Indian type culture collections - a need for re-identification of these economically important fungi
p. 0372 | Latha, J.; Verma, Aprajita; Mukherjee, Prasun K.

Phenolics in elephant dung: a complex zoochoric system
p. 0374 | Mandal, Suparna; Brahmachary, R. L.

A quest for the moon
p. 0377 | Bhandari, Narendra

On forecasting the Indian summer monsoon: the intriguing season of 2002
p. 0394 | Gadgil, Sulochana; Srinivasan, J.; Nanjundiah, Ravi S.; Kumar, K. Krishna; Munot, A. A.; Kumar, K. Rupa

Frankia-actinorhizal symbiosis with special reference to host-microsymbiont relationship
p. 0404 | Verghese, Susamma; Misra, Arvind K.

Erratum
p. 0408

Application of genetic principles for improving silk production
p. 0409 | Nagaraju, J.

Silkworm genomics - progress and prospects
p. 0415 | Nagaraju, J.; Goldsmith, M. R.

Construction of an EST database for Bombyx mori and its applications
p. 0426 | Mita, Kazuei; Morimyo, Mitsuoki; Okano, Kazuhiro; Koike, Yoshiko; Nohata, Junko; Suzuki, Masataka G.; Shimada, Toru

Perspectives in silkworm (Bombyx mori) transgenesis
p. 0432 | Prudhomme, Jean Claude; Couble, Pierre

Genetic resistance of the silkworm, Bombyx mori to viral diseases
p. 0439 | Watanabe, Hitoshi

Immune responses against bacterial infection in Bombyx mori and regulation of host gene expression
p. 0447 | Ponnuvel, Kangayam M.; Yamakawa, Minoru

Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus: Molecular biology and biotechnological applications for large-scale synthesis of recombinant proteins
p. 0455 | Acharya, Asha; Sriram, Satyanarayana; Sehrawat, Seema; Rahman, Masmudur; Sehgal, Deepak; Gopinathan, K. P.

Sex determination in Bombyx mori
p. 0466 | Ohbayashi, Fumi; Suzuki, Masataka G.; Shimada, Toru

Dielectric properties of a ferroelectric copolymer Langmuir-Blodgett film
p. 0472 | Jogad, Mahantappa S.; Ducharme, Stephen

Study of organogenesis in vitro from callus tissue of ,Flacourtia jangomas (Lour. ) Raeusch through scanning electron microscopy
p. 0476 | Chandra, Indrani; Bhanja, P.

Influence of calcium channel modulators in capsaicin production by cell suspension cultures of Capsicum frutescens Mill.
p. 0480 | Sudha, G.; Ravishankar, G. A.

Conservation and utilization of Arnebia benthamii (Wall. ex G. Don) Johnston - a high value Himalayan medicinal plant
p. 0484 | Manjkhola, Sumit; Dhar, Uppeandra

Interrelationship between lipid peroxidation, ascorbic acid and superoxide dismutase in coronary artery disease
p. 0488 | Das, Sabari; Yadav, Dinesh; Narang, Rajiv; Das, Nibhriti

Some geodynamic aspects of Kutch basin and seismicity: An insight from gravity studies
p. 0492 | Chandrasekhar, D. V.; Mishra, D. C.

Negative d¹³C excursion and anoxia at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the Tethys Sea
p. 0498 | Ghosh, Prosenjit; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Shukla, A. D.; Shukla, P. N.; Bhandari, N.; Parthasarathy, G.; Kunwar, A. C.

D-InSAR applications for monitoring of geological hazards with special reference to Latur earthquake 1993
p. 0502 | Majumdar, T. J.; Massonnet, D.

Fund and Fundamentals of Mathematics
p. 0509 | Shirali, Shailesh A.

Einstein's Miraculous Year
p. 0510 | Das, Sumit Ranjan

Problems and Methods in Mathematical Physics
p. 0511 | Ravindran, Renuka

The Intelligent Genome - On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection
p. 0512 | Ramaswamy, R.

Chemical and Biological Warfare - A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
p. 0513 | Swamy, R. V.

Suresh Kumar Sinha
p. 0514 | Chopra, R. K.

Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
p. 0516

National Women Bioscientist Awards: 2002
p. 0519

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
p. 0522

National Laboratory Workshop on Multiphoton Confocal Microscopy 21-26 October 2002
p. 0523

Refresher Course on Spectroscopy, Chemical Reactions & Biology
p. 0524

SPIC Science Foundation
p. 0525

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Biophysics
p. 0526

Project Positions in Earth Sciences at JNU, New Delhi
p. 0526

Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan
p. 0527

Required
p. 0527

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
p. 0528

L. V. Prasad Eye Institute
p. 0528

M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur 313 001 (Rajasthan)
p. 0529

National Dairy Research Institute
p. 0529

Banaras Hindu University
p. 0530

Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres (ICAR)
p. 0530

BIO-INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
p. 0531

Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302
p. 0531