In this issue
p. 1278

Rankings and Records
p. 1279 | Balaram, P.

Scientists - making sense and being sensitive
p. 1281 | Dhathathreyan, Aruna

Decline of Indian science
p. 1282 | Kamath, P. Vishnu

Request for wide circulation
p. 1283 | Muthuswamy, A.; Mariappan, P.; Jayabalan, N.

IITs - Vision and Reality
p. 1283 | Kane, Prabhakar P.

Jagadish Chandra Bose: The first modern scientist
p. 1284 | More, Shahaji B.

Malaria as healer: The Heimlich oeuvre on malariotherapy for AIDS
p. 1285 | Roy, Rustum

Cuscuta europaea Linn. (Dodder plant): An emerging threat to plant diversity of Valley of Flowers
p. 1285 | Joshi, Soumai Kant; Gairola, Sanjay

Chloroplast transformation as a tool for prevention of gene flow from GM crops to weedy or wild relatives
p. 1286 | Bansal, K. C.; Sharma, R. K.

Indian National Academy of Engineering operationally poised for a new phase
p. 1287

Tracking the new disease SARS in combat mode
p. 1289

New forecast models for Indian south-west monsoon season rainfall
p. 1290 | Sen, Nirupa

Eco-friendly approaches for sustainable insect pest management
p. 1292 | Ignacimuthu, S.; Jayaraj, S.

Vindhyan vagaries
p. 1293 | Sharma, Mukund

Towards hunger-free India: Count down to 2007
p. 1297 | Swaminathan, M. S.

From the archives
p. 1300

Random selections
p. 1301

Aerosol behaviour in Kanpur during Diwali festival
p. 1302 | Singh, Ramesh P.; Dey, Sagnik; Holben, Brent

Baseline resistance to Cry1Ac toxin in cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) in south Indian cotton ecosystem
p. 1304 | Fakrudin, B.; Prasad, P. R. Badari; Prakash, S. H.; Krishnareddy, K. B.; Patil, B. V.; Kuruvinashetti, M. S.

Restoration of Eremostachys superba Royle ex Benth. - a critically endangered species
p. 1307 | Verma, Susheel; Magotra, Rani; Koul, A. K.

Humanity and humanism: The bioethical perspective of human evolution
p. 1309 | Markl, Hubert S.

Methane and nitrous oxide emission from irrigated rice fields: Proposed mitigation strategies
p. 1317 | Majumdar, Deepanjan

Development and studies on microstrip detector
p. 1327 | Radhakrishnan, V.; Rajanna, K.; Desai, S. S.; Shaikh, A. M.

Formulae of Newton and Euler - the formal derivative and trace
p. 1337 | Nagarajan, K. R.; Sridharan, R.

A new plasma wave over low latitude ionosphere during Leonid meteor storm
p. 1340 | Gupta, S. P.; Sekar, R.; Acharya, Y. B.

Photochemically prepared gold nanoparticles: A substrate for surface enhanced Raman scattering
p. 1342 | Pal, Anjali; Pal, Tarasankar; Stokes, David L.; Vo-Dinh, Tuan

A SANS study on growth of anionic micelles with quaternary ammonium bromide
p. 1346 | Kumar, S.; Naqvi, A. Z.; Aswal, V. K.; Goyal, P. S.; Kabir-ud-din

Enterovirus 71 isolated from a case of acute flaccid paralysis in India represents a new genotype
p. 1350 | Deshpande, J. M.; Nadkarni, S. S.; Francis, P. P.

Isolation and characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica from diarrhoeic human subjects and other sources
p. 1353 | Singh, I.; Bhatnagar, S.; Virdi, J. S.

Microstructural and fluid inclusion constraints on the evolution of Jakhri Thrust Zone in the Satluj valley of NW Himalaya
p. 1355 | Pandey, A. K.; Virdi, N. S.

Speciality Rices of the World: Breeding Production and Marketing
p. 1365 | Siddique, E. A.

Prokaryotic Genomics
p. 1366 | Bashyam, Murali D.

Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment in Cold Climates
p. 1367 | Billore, S. K.

Four Decades of Marine Geosciences in India - A retrospect
p. 1368 | Roy, A. B.

Errata
p. 1369

S. K. Pradhan
p. 1370 | Rajappa, S.; Kolhe, J. N.

REFRESHER COURSE IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
p. 1371

V. S. LAKSHMI DEGREE & P. G. COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
p. 1372

B. V. Patel Pharmaceutical Education & Research Development (PERD) Centre, Ahmedabad
p. 1372

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
p. 1373

The Joint India-AMS Mathematics Meeting
p. 1373