In this issue
p. 0412

Sport and Science: Olympic Musings
p. 0413 | Balaram, P.

Status of the academia
p. 0415 | Krishna, M.

A rational approach to study ancient literature
p. 0415 | Abhyankar, K. D.

Shanghai rankings and Indian universities
p. 0416 | Virk, H. S.

Water storage in Terminalia tomentosa
p. 0416 | Rao, R. Shyama Prasad

Secondary succession in the buffer zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve, Uttaranchal
p. 0417 | Husain, Tariq; Garg, Arti

Where do we place the Indian cattle Theileria mutans of yore?
p. 0418 | Gill, B. S.

Public peer review - An alternative to impact factors
p. 0419 | Varadarajan, Sujata

Deep lake sampling in Antarctica using helicopters
p. 0420 | Singh, S. M.; Tiwari, A. K.

National symposium on chronobiology
p. 0421 | Pati, Atanu Kumar; Agrawal, Arvind

Telomere shortening: A marker of atherosclerosis?
p. 0422 | Balasubramanyam, Muthuswamy; Adaikalakoteswari, Antonysunil; Mohan, Viswanathan

From the archives
p. 0424

Agricultural biotechnology: Safe and responsible use
p. 0425

The Agbiotech Task Force Report
p. 0426 | Sahai, Suman

Meteoritic shower in coastal Orissa
p. 0428 | Mohanty, M.; Sahoo, K. C.; Jena, S. K.; Dash, P. C.; Mohanty, B. K.

Sacred groves of Manipur - ideal centres for biodiversity conser­vation
p. 0430 | Khumbongmayum, Ashalata Devi; Khan, M. L.; Tripathi, R. S.

Oldest known gobiids from Vastan Lignite Mine (early Eocene), Surat District, Gujarat
p. 0433 | Bajpai, Sunil; Kapur, Vivesh Vir

Abundance of pollution indicator and pathogenic bacteria in Mumbai waters
p. 0435 | Ramaiah, N.; Kolhe, Vrushali; Sadhasivan, A.

Falling Late Holocene sea-level along the Indian coast
p. 0439 | Mathur, U. B.; Pandey, D. K.; Bahadur, Tej

Indian contribution to the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, Geneva
p. 0441 | Sahni, V. C.

Anthropogenic threats and biodiversity conservation in Namdapha nature reserve in the Indian Eastern Himalayas
p. 0447 | Arunachalam, A.; Sarmah, R.; Adhikari, D.; Majumder, M.; Khan, M. L.

Biological fuel cells and their applications
p. 0455 | Shukla, A. K.; Suresh, P.; Berchmans, S.; Rajendran, A.

Inheritance of elongated uppermost internode and identification of RAPD marker linked to eui gene in rice
p. 0469 | Gangashetti, M. G.; Jena, K. K.; Shenoy, V. V.; Freeman, Wayne H.

A study of rainfall along the west coast of India in relation to low level jet and air-sea interactions over the Arabian Sea
p. 0475 | Mishra, A. K.; Gnanaseelan, C.; Seetaramayya, P.

Photochemically prepared gold metal film in a carbohydrate-based polymer: A practical solid substrate for surface-enhanced Raman scattering
p. 0486 | Pal, Anjali; Stokes, David L.; Vo-Dinh, Tuan

In vitro lymphocyte-to-granulocyte transdifferentiation induced by chemicals
p. 0491 | Shenoi, B. V.

CAGCAG - the most consistent repeating pattern in evolution of small subunit of rRNA gene sequences
p. 0494 | Iyer, D. S.; Raje, D. V.; Purohit, H. J.; Gupta, A.; Singh, R. N.

Decline in reactive oxygen species at low light intensity can overcome necrosis barrier in hybrid wheat
p. 0500 | Sharma, Geetanjali; Prabhu, K. V.; Khanna-Chopra, Renu

Geolocation of Indian Ocean tropical cyclones using 85 GHz observations from TRMM Microwave Imager
p. 0504 | Patadia, Falguni; Kishtawal, C. M.; Pal, P. K.; Joshi, P. C.

Fluvial influx and weathering history of the Himalayas since Last Glacial Maxima - isotopic, sedimentological and magnetic records from the Bay of Bengal
p. 0509 | Chauhan, Onkar S.; Patil, Shiva K.; Suneethi, J.

Seismic reflection data: their utility in estimation of gas hydrates in deep marine sediments
p. 0515 | Shankar, Uma; Satyavani, N.; Sinha, Babita; Thakur, N. K.

Coda duration magnitude scale of 2001 Bhuj aftershocks, India
p. 0520 | Mandal, P.; Narsaiah, R.; Raju, P. S.; Chadha, R. K.

A Handbook of English Grammar by Rajiva Wijesingha; Explorations: A Course in Reading, Thinking and Communication Skills by Oranee Jansz
p. 0528 | H. Hoole, S. Ratnajeevan

LASERS - Principles, Types and Applications by K. R. Nambiar
p. 0529 | Girijavallabhan, C. P.

Description of rainfall variability in Brhat-samhita of Varāha-mihira
p. 0531 | Iyengar, R. N.

DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY (DAE) BOARD OF RESEARCH IN NUCLEAR SCIENCES (BRNS)
p. 0534

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
p. 0537

Department of Science and Technology-INVITATION OF PROPOSALS UNDER THE GREEN CHEMISTRY PROGRAMME
p. 0538

Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science
p. 0539

Central Electrochemical Research Institute
p. 0539

Nanophosphor Application Centre, University of Allahabad
p. 0540

Upasi Tea Research Foundation
p. 0540

National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad
p. 0541

Anna University Courses In Bioinformatics
p. 0541

Indian Council of Medical Research
p. 0542

Professor M. Santappa Award - 2004
p. 0542

PROPOSAL INVITED FOR NEW IDEA FUND
p. 0543

AstraZeneca
p. 0543

C-MMACS Training Programme On GPS Theory, Data Collection, Processing and Analysis Announcement1 Announcement2
p. 0544