In this issue
p. 1526

Patents, Laws and Science
p. 1527 | Balaram, P.

Reinventing Indian universities
p. 1529 | Tauro, P.

Where have we gone wrong?
p. 1529 | Krishnan, S.

Scientific writing
p. 1530 | Kumar, Nandini

Tsunami of 26 December 2004
p. 1530 | Sadhuram, Y.

Are Bt toxin engineered plants truly safe?
p. 1531 | Singh, Dwijendra

Post-disaster reflections
p. 1532 | Iyer, Sridhar D.

Crisis in arsenic news
p. 1533 | Chatterjee, Garga

Evidence to support that diclofenac caused catastrophic vulture population decline
p. 1533 | Prakash, V.; Green, R. E.; Rahmani, A. R.; Pain, D. J.; Virani, M. Z.; Khan, Aleem A.; Baral, H. S.; Jhala, Y. V.; Naoroji, R.; Shah, Nita; Bowden, C. G. R.; Choudhury, B. C.; Narayan, G.; Gautam, P.

Credibility of accreditation by NAAC
p. 1535 | Dharmapalan, Biju

Heavy metals and Ayurveda
p. 1535 | Bhushan, Patwardhan; Dnyaneshwar, Warude; Girish, Tillu

92nd Indian Science Congress
p. 1536 | De, Minakshi

The Berlin-3 meeting
p. 1541 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

Biodiversity and insect pest management
p. 1543 | Ignacimuthu, S.

Adaptability and production of hottest chilli variety under Gwalior agro-climatic conditions
p. 1545 | Tiwari, Akhilesh; Kaushik, M. P.; Pandey, K. S.; Dangi, R. S.

Composition of Cr-spinel - an ore genetic indicator of Kathpal Chromite Deposit, Sukinda Ultramafic Complex, Orissa, India
p. 1547 | Sen, Amit Kumar; Sharma, Pravin Kumar; Mohanty, Debadutta; Ghosh, Tamal K.

Recovery of airborne palynodebris from Continental Ice Sheet, Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica
p. 1550 | Bera, S. K.

Need to inculcate the culture of intellectual property protection in research and development
p. 1553 | Shukla, Dipak B.

Simulation of electromagnetic signals propagating through magnetoplasma
p. 1562 | Singh, Kalpana; Singh, R. P.

Financial valuation of non-timber forest product flows in Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, Karnataka
p. 1573 | Murthy, I. K.; Bhat, P. R.; Ravindranath, N. H.; Sukumar, R.

Sorption of arsenic onto Vindhyan shales: Role of pyrite and organic carbon
p. 1580 | Paikaray, S.; Banerjee, S.; Mukherji, S.

Improved earthquake locations and estimation of Pn and Sn path anomalies for India, using multiple event relocation and reference events
p. 1586 | Rastogi, B. K.; Sarbhoy, A. K.; Varma, A.; Bergman, E. A.; Engdahl, E. R.

A review of structure and tectonics of Kutch basin, western India, with special reference to earthquakes
p. 1592 | Biswas, S. K.

Analysis of gravity and magnetic anomalies of Kachchh rift basin, India and its comparison with the New Madrid seismic zone, USA
p. 1601 | Chandrasekhar, D. V.; Singh, Bijendra; Firozishah, Md.; Mishra, D. C.

Fault intersections and intraplate seismicity in Charleston, South Carolina: Insights from a 2-D numerical model
p. 1609 | Gangopadhyay, Abhijit; Talwani, Pradeep

Fractal analysis of aftershock sequence of the Bhuj earthquake: A wavelet-based approach
p. 1617 | Dimri, V. P.; Vedanti, Nimisha; Chattopadhyay, Sandip

Structure and seismotectonics of Satpura, Central India
p. 1621 | Mall, D. M.; Singh, A. P.; Sarkar, D.

Artificial water reservoir-triggered earthquakes with special emphasis at Koyna
p. 1628 | Gupta, Harsh K.

Revisiting the 1897 Shillong and 1905 Kangra earthquakes in northern India: Site response, Moho reflections and a triggered earthquake
p. 1632 | Hough, Susan E.; Bilham, Roger; Ambraseys, Nicholas; Feldl, Nicole

Comparison of the deep crustal structure and seismicity of North America with the Indian subcontinent
p. 1639 | Rao, V. Vijaya; Reddy, P. R.; Chulick, Gary S.; Detweiler, Shane T.; Mooney, Walter D.

Crustal velocity structure of western India and its use in understanding intraplate seismicity
p. 1652 | Reddy, P. R.

Apparent Himalayan slip deficit from the summation of seismic moments for Himalayan earthquakes, 1500-2000
p. 1658 | Bilham, Roger; Ambraseys, Nicholas

Fertility and mortality among the scheduled caste Madigas of Andhra Pradesh, India
p. 1664 | Reddy, K. Rajasekhara

Oceanic fronts along 45°E across Antarctic Circumpolar Current during austral summer 2004
p. 1669 | Anilkumar, N.; Dash, M. K.; Luis, A. J.; Babu, V. Ramesh; Somayajulu, Y. K.; Sudhakar, M.; Pande, P. C.

Agrobacterium-mediated tomato transformation and regeneration of transgenic lines expressing Tomato leaf curl virus coat protein gene for resistance against TLCV infection
p. 1674 | Raj, S. K.; Singh, Rachana; Pandey, S. K.; Singh, B. P.

Bat pollination of kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra
p. 1679 | Nathan, P. Thiruchenthil; Raghuram, H.; Elangovan, V.; Karuppudurai, T.; Marimuthu, G.

Optimizing the time of harvest of nucleopolyhedrovirus infected Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) larvae under in vivo production systems
p. 1682 | Kumar, C. M. Senthil; Sathiah, N.; Rabindra, R. J.

Record of rhodoliths from Aramda Reef Member (Late Pleistocene to Holocene) of Chaya Formation, Dwarka-Okha area, Gujarat and their paleoenvironmental significance
p. 1684 | Kundal, P.; Dharashivkar, A. P.

Basic Bioinformatics by S. Ignacimuthu
p. 1690 | Ramachandran, S.

Remote Sensing - Principles and Applications B. B. Panda
p. 1690 | Deekshatulu, B. L.

Global Change in the Holocene by Anson Mackay Et Al
p. 1691 | Khadkikar, Anirudha S.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
p. 1693

Call for preliminary proposals for establishing low temperature and high magnetic field facilities (Phase II)
p. 1694

Bright career opportunities in R&D of medicinal and aromatic plants at CIMAP
p. 1695

REFRESHER COURSE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
p. 1696

REFRESHER COURSE ON PROBABILITY, STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS
p. 1697

University of Pune
p. 1698

A Three-Day Workshop on Bioinorganic Chemistry (
p. 1698

TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
p. 1699

Post-Graduate Diploma in Medico-Botany
p. 1699

CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE
p. 1700

CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BOTANY
p. 1700

CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BOTANY-WORKSHOP ON FUNGAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1701

Kmc life SCIENCE CENTRE Invites
p. 1701

MANGALORE UNIVERSITY
p. 1702

JRF POSITION IN BRNS PROJECT
p. 1702

THIRD WORLD ORGANISATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE (TWOWS)
p. 1703