In this issue
p. 0700

Teachers and Mentors
p. 0701 | Balaram, P.

Science today in higher education and its requirements
p. 0703 | Gupta, Y. K.

Science reporting in regional languages
p. 0703 | Balasubrahmanyam, S. N.

Statistics and pure mathematics vs bibliometry science
p. 0704 | Singh, Rajinder

Mathematics research
p. 0705 | Ravichandran, S.

Prescribed burning
p. 0705 | Manjkhola, Sumit

Need for microbial type culture collection centre in South India
p. 0706 | Sarma, V. Venkateswara

Wound healing properties of latex
p. 0707 | Lakshmipatiraju, A.

Could Phata Byung, Uttaranchal landslide be prevented?
p. 0707 | Kumar, K. Vinod; Bhattacharya, Asis; Martha, Tapas Ranjan; Bhaskar, P. Vijaya

Photobiology in the genomics and post-genomics era
p. 0709 | Khurana, Jitendra P.

From the archives
p. 0711

Growth of biotechnology in India
p. 0712 | Padmanaban, G.

Food plants and feeding habits of Himalayan ungulates
p. 0719 | Awasthi, Anjali; Uniyal, Sanjay Kr.; Rawat, Gopal S.; Sathyakumar, S.

Emergence of a Microcystis bloom in an urban water body, Kandy lake, Sri Lanka
p. 0723 | Silva, E. I. L.

Cadra cautella Walker (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Phycitinae) - a pest on Parkia timoriana (DC) Merr. in Manipur
p. 0725 | Thangjam, Robert; Damayanti, M.; Sharma, G. J.

Homogenic and xenogenic implantation in pearl mussel surgery
p. 0727 | Ram, K. Janaki; Misra, Gayatri

Early diagnosis of white spot viral syndrome using rapid gill staining technique
p. 0729 | Rao, U. Venkateswara; Kumar, A. Ravi; Rao, K. R. S. Sambasiva

Underutilized edible plants of the Sikkim Himalaya: Need for domestication
p. 0731 | Sundriyal, Manju; Sundriyal, R. C.

Satellite observations for the geosphere-biosphere programme
p. 0737 | Desai, Pranav S.; Joseph, George

Protein folding activity and the central dogma of molecular biology
p. 0755 | Ghosh, Pallavi; Chatterji, Dipankar

Novel membrane processes for separation of organics
p. 0761 | Razdan, U.; Joshi, S. V.; Shah, V. J.

External particle-induced X-ray emission
p. 0772 | Vijayan, V.; Choudhury, R. K.; Mallick, B.; Sahu, S.; Choudhury, S. K.; Lenka, H. P.; Rautray, T. R.; Nayak, P. K.

Particle image velocimetry study of a cloud-like flow
p. 0778 | Venkatakrishnan, L.; Elavarasan, R.; Bhat, G. S.; Krothapalli, A.; Lourenco, L.

Dietary intervention affects arsenic-generated nitric oxide and reactive oxygen intermediate toxicity in islet cells of rats
p. 0786 | Mukherjee, S.; Das, D.; Darbar, S.; Mitra, C.