In this issue
p. 1648

Conferences: Unrestrained Proliferation
p. 1649 | Balaram, P.

Admission to Ph D
p. 1651 | Selvaraj, M.

Recognition of merit
p. 1651 | Gupta, Y. K.

Current Science
p. 1652 | Singh, Rajinder

Save O₃ur sky
p. 1652 | Sahoo, Narottam

Indian academics on sale
p. 1654 | Roy, S. C. Dutta

Effects of chewing paan
p. 1654 | Choudhury, Chitta R.; Chowdhury, Ashoka D.; Tanaka, A.; Markus, A. F.

Growth of biotechnology
p. 1655 | Banerjee, S. K.

Sacred groves of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka
p. 1655 | Bhandary, M. J.; Chandrashekar, K. R.

Coal science and technology
p. 1657 | Singh, B. D.; Singh, K. N.; Misra, B. K.

Rajasaurus narmadensis - A new Indian dinosaur
p. 1661 | Bhatt, D. K.

From neutrons to neutrinos: On the trail of solar fusion and terrestrial fission
p. 1662 | Indumathi, D.

Digital and information divides: Initiatives for change
p. 1664 | Khattri, Kailash N.

Vivipary, a rare and evolutionarily important phenomenon in a rare homosporous fern Grammitis medialis from the Western Ghats, South India
p. 1666 | Irudayaraj, V.; Manickam, V. S.; Johnson, M.

A rare root parasitic plant (Sapria himalayana Griffith. ) in Namdapha National Park, northeastern India
p. 1668 | Adhikari, D.; Arunachalam, A.; Majumder, M.; Sarmah, R.; Khan, M. L.

Neurospora in full bloom
p. 1670 | Rashmi, K.; Latha, J. Naveena Lavanya; Sowjanya, T. Naga; Kiranmayi, P.; Rao, M. Venugopal; Menon, C. P. S.; Mohan, P. Maruthi

Colonization of cruciferous plants by Piriformospora indica
p. 1672 | Kumari, Rina; Kishan, Hari; Bhoon, Y. K.; Varma, Ajit

Larval case renovation - a unique behaviour in bagworm moth, Eumeta crameri Westwood
p. 1674 | Agrawal, Arvind; Pati, Atanu Kumar

From the archives
p. 1679

Theocracy, history and historiography: An exploration in professional ethics
p. 1680 | Hoole, S. R. H.; Hoole, D.

Applications of microwaves in biological sciences
p. 1685 | Roy, Ipsita; Gupta, Munishwar Nath

Antifungals from fluorescent pseudomonads: Biosynthesis and regulation
p. 1693 | Dwivedi, Deepti; Johri, B. N.

Acclimatization of tissue-cultured plants
p. 1704 | Hazarika, B. N.

Droughts of the Indian summer monsoon: Role of clouds over the Indian Ocean
p. 1713 | Gadgil, Sulochana; Vinayachandran, P. N.; Francis, P. A.

Sonochemistry and its application to nanochemistry
p. 1720 | Gedanken, Aharon

Nonequilibrium processes for generating silicon nanostructures in single crystalline silicon
p. 1723 | Sen, P.; Akhtar, J.

Nanophase materials by hydrothermal, microwave-hydrothermal and microwave-solvothermal methods
p. 1730 | Komarneni, Sridhar

Phase transfer protocols in nanoparticle synthesis
p. 1735 | Sastry, Murali

Nanotechnology, a stimulus for innovation
p. 1746 | Tolles, W. M.; Rath, B. B.

From colloids to nanotechnology: Investigations on magic nuclearity palladium nanocrystals
p. 1760 | Thomas, P. John; Kulkarni, G. U.

Genetic transformation of Hevea brasiliensis with the gene coding for superoxide dismutase with FMV 34S promoter
p. 1767 | Sobha, S.; Sushamakumari, S.; Thanseem, I.; Jayasree, P. Kumari; Rekha, K.; Jayashree, R.; Kala, R. G.; Asokan, M. P.; Sethuraj, M. R.; Dandekar, A. M.; Thulaseedharan, A.

Comparison of direct binding polymerase chain reaction with recombinant coat protein antibody based dot-blot immunobinding assay and immunocapture-reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for the detection of sugarcane streak mosaic virus causing m
p. 1774 | Hema, M.; Savithri, H. S.; Sreenivasulu, P.

Leaf area index retrieval using IRS LISS-III sensor data and validation of MODIS LAI product over Madhya Pradesh
p. 1777 | Pandya, M. R.; Chaudhari, K. N.; Singh, R. P.; Sehgal, V. K.; Bairagi, G. D.; Sharma, R.; Dadhwal, V. K.

Molecular diagnosis and induced systemic protection against rhizome rot disease of ginger caused by Pythium aphanidermatum
p. 1782 | Ghosh, R.; Purkayastha, R. P.

Coral bleaching 2002 in the Palk Bay, southeast coast of India
p. 1787 | Kumaraguru, A. K.; Jayakumar, K.; Ramakritinan, C. M.

Preliminary observations from a trench near Chandigarh, NW Himalaya and their bearing on active faulting
p. 1793 | Malik, Javed N.; Nakata, Takashi; Philip, George; Virdi, N. S.

Sustainability and Management of Aquaculture and Fisheries
p. 1799 | Pandian, T. J.

Monograph on Radioactivity of the Environment
p. 1799 | Sundararajan, A. R.

Geodynamics of the Lithosphere
p. 1800 | Rajendran, C. P.

John F. Eisenberg
p. 1802 | Santiapillai, Charles

Acknowledgements
p. 1803

Institutional members
p. 1806

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DIVISION)
p. 1809

Mustard Research and Promotion Consortium
p. 1811

Workshop on Physics and Techniques below 20 K An India-Finland Joint Workshop (16-18 February 2004)
p. 1812

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
p. 1812

Centre of Potential in the Subject of Genomic Sciences
p. 1813

Metahelix - Greminating Hope
p. 1813

Prof. G. M. Reddy Research Foundation
p. 1814

Iladevi Cataract & IOL Research Centre
p. 1814