In this issue
p. 0439

Darwin's Champions
p. 0441 | Balaram, P.

The Indian Lancet
p. 0443 | Roy, Sanku Bilas

Is 'rapid response' a future alternative to 'letter to the editor'?
p. 0444 | Menezes, Ritesh G.; Kanchan, Tanuj; Lobo, Stany W.; Chauhan, Aman

In defence of the 3 + 2 years system of post-school education
p. 0444 | Roy, D. P.

The proposed 4-year B S programme
p. 0445 | Saberwal, Gayatri

When do we learn to properly advertise a post?
p. 0446 | Rao, A. S.

Earth science technology courses
p. 0446 | Ramanamurthy, M. V.

Amazing events in SKR's life and the men behind them
p. 0447 | Roy, S. C. Dutta

In memory of K. R. Rao, BARC and Editor, Physics News
p. 0448 | Goel, Malti

Present status of critically endangered species of Gyps in Andhra Pradesh, India
p. 0449 | Srinivasulu, C.; Srinivasulu, Bhargavi; Venkateshwarlu, P.; Seetharamaraju, M.; Kaur, Harpreet; Sreekar, R.

Stenochironomus nelumbus infesting leaves of Nelumbo nucifera and use of the term 'gall'(Response)
p. 0449 | Mathew, Deepu; Habeeburrahman, P. V

Stenochironomus nelumbus infesting leaves of Nelumbo nucifera and use of the term 'gall'
p. 0449 | Raman, Anantanarayanan

INSA: new initiatives and concerns
p. 0451 | Vijayan, M.

Field Research Laboratory Leh, renamed as Defence Institute of High Altitude Research
p. 0452 | Mishra, Gyan P.

National agenda on problems and solutions
p. 0452 | Sheth, Parul R.

Cellulosic ethanol as transportation fuel: hype no longer
p. 0455 | Maheshwari, Ramesh

Harmonization of patent laws
p. 0457 | Bera, Rajendra K.

Humans sharing space with Crocodylus porosus in Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary: conflicts and options
p. 0459 | Gopi, G. V.; Pandav, Bivash

Breccia filled inflation clefts on the banks of the Kukadi River near Hanewadi, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra
p. 0461 | Sarkar, P. K.; Manjare, B. N.; Duraiswami, R. A.

A rapid method of measuring shoot hydraulic resistance of rice: implications for efficient water use
p. 0464 | Singh, Sanjay; Singh, T. N.; Chauhan, J. S.

'Tank': local land race of wheat for protection of wheat field against monkey raids - an indigenous technical knowledge
p. 0467 | Gupta, Arun; Kant, Lakshmi; Mahajan, Vinay; Saha, Supradip; Gupta, H. S.

Dictyopteris serrata (Arschoug) Hyot: first record of male gametophytic plants
p. 0468 | Thakur, Mukund C.; Mantri, Vaibhav A.; Reddy, C. R. K.; Jha, Bhavanath

Performance evaluation of filtration unit of groundwater recharge shaft: laboratory study
p. 0471 | Kambale, J. B.; Sarangi, A.; Singh, D. K.; Singh, A. K.

Environmental flows in river basins: a case study of River Bhadra
p. 0475 | Babu, K. Lenin; Kumara, B. K. Harish

Reclaimed islands and new offshore townships in the Arabian Gulf: potential natural hazards
p. 0480 | Kumar, Arun

Chandrayaan-1: India's first planetary science mission to the moon
p. 0486 | Goswami, J. N.; Annadurai, M.

Terrain Mapping Camera: A stereoscopic high-resolution instrument on Chandrayaan-1
p. 0492 | Kumar, A. S. Kiran; Chowdhury, A. Roy; Banerjee, A.; Dave, A. B.; Sharma, B. N.; Shah, K. J.; Murali, K. R.; Joshi, S. R.; Sarkar, S. S.; Patel, V. D.

Hyper Spectral Imager for lunar mineral mapping in visible and near infrared band
p. 0496 | Kumar, A. S. Kiran; Chowdhury, A. Roy; Banerjee, A.; Dave, A. B.; Sharma, B. N.; Shah, K. J.; Murali, K. R.; Mehta, S.; Joshi, S. R.; Sarkar, S. S.

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) on Chandrayaan-1
p. 0500 | Pieters, Carle M.; Boardman, Joseph; Buratti, Bonnie; Chatterjee, Alok; Clark, Roger; Glavich, Tom; Green, Robert O.; Head III, James; Isaacson, Peter A.; Malaret, Erick; Mccord, Thomas; Mustard, John; Petro, Noah; Runyon, Cassandra; Staid, Matthew; Sunshine, Jessica; Taylor, Lawrence; Tompkins, Stefanie; Varanasi, Padma; White, Mary

Near Infrared Spectrometer SIR-2 on Chandrayaan-1
p. 0506 | Mall, Urs; Banaszkiewicz, Marek; Brønstad, Kjell; Mckenna-lawlor, Susan; Nathues, Andreas; Søraas, Finn; Vilenius, Esa; Ullaland, Kjetil

Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI): a tool for the study of topography and gravitational field of the Moon
p. 0512 | Kamalakar, J. A.; Prasad, A. S. Laxmi; Bhaskar, K. V. S.; Selvaraj, P.; Venkateswaran, R.; Kalyani, K.; Goswami, A.; Raja, V. L. N. Sridhar

The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer
p. 0517 | Grande, Manuel; Maddison, Brian J.; Sreekumar, P.; Huovelin, Johani; Kellett, Barry J.; Howe, Chris J.; Crawford, Ian A.; Smith, D. R.; Team, The C1xs

High Energy X-ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1
p. 0520 | Sreekumar, P.; Acharya, Y. B.; Umapathy, C. N.; Sharma, M. Ramakrishna; Shanmugam; Tyagi, A.; ., Kumar; Vadawale, S.; Sudhakar, M.; Abraham, L.; Kulkani, R.; Purohit, S.; Premlatha, R. L.; Banerjee, D.; Bug, M.; Goswami, J. N.

Investigation of the solar wind-Moon interaction onboard Chandrayaan-1 mission with the SARA experiment
p. 0526 | Barabash, Stas; Bhardwaj, Anil; Wieser, Martin; Sridharan, R.; Kurian, Thomas; Varier, Subha; Vijayakumar, E.; Abhirami, Veena; Raghavendra, K. V.; Mohankumar, S. V.; Dhanya, M. B.; Thampi, R. Satheesh; Kazushi, Asamura; Andersson, Herman; Yoshifumi, Futaana; Holmström, Mats; Lundin, Rickard; Svensson, Johan; Karlsson, Stefan; Piazza, R. Daniele; Wurz, Peter

Mini-SAR: an imaging radar experiment for the Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon
p. 0533 | Spudis, Paul; Nozette, Stewart; Bussey, Ben; Raney, Keith; Winters, Helene; Lichtenberg, Christopher L.; Marinelli, William; Crusan, Jason C.; Gates, Michele M.

The Moon Impact Probe on Chandrayaan-1
p. 0540 | Kumar, Y. Ashok; Team, Mip Project

Monitoring lunar radiation environment: RADOM instrument on Chandrayaan-1
p. 0544 | Dachev, T.; Tomov, B.; Matviichuk, Y.; Dimitrov, P.

On the confirmation of the traditional unit of length measure in the estimates of circumference of the earth
p. 0547 | Balasubramaniam, R.

Is malaria the cause for decline in the wild population of the Indian White-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis)?
p. 0553 | Poharkar, Ajay; Reddy, P. Anuradha; Gadge, Vilas A.; Kolte, Sunil; Kurkure, Nitin; Shivaji, Sisinthy

A high resolution daily gridded rainfall dataset (1971-2005) for mesoscale meteorological studies
p. 0558 | Rajeevan, M.; Bhate, Jyoti

Properties of cloud base height during southwest monsoon period over a tropical station, Thiruvananthapuram
p. 0562 | Varikoden, Hamza; Harikumar, R.; Sasi Kumar, V.; Murali Das, S.; Sampath, S.; Kumar, G. Mohan

Land evaluation by integrating remote sensing and GIS for cropping system analysis in a watershed
p. 0569 | Martin, D.; Saha, S. K.

Comparison of floristic diversity of evergreen forest inferred from different sampling approaches in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India
p. 0575 | Jayakumar, S.; Ramachandran, A.; Heo, Joon

Acacia nilotica-based traditional agroforestry system: effect on paddy crop and management
p. 0581 | Bargali, S. S.; Bargali, Kiran; Singh, Lalji; Ghosh, Lekha; Lakhera, M. L.

Srisailam sub-basin, an uranium province of unconformity-related deposits in Andhra Pradesh - case study of Chitrial uranium exploration, Nalgonda District
p. 0588 | Verma, M. B.; Maithani, P. B.; Chaki, A.; Rao, P. Nageswar; Kumar, Prakher

Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series by Rudiger Hell Et Al(eds)
p. 0592 | Biswal, Basanti

Scientoonic Tell-Tale of Genome and DNA by M. W. Pandit, P. K. Srivastava and Lalji Singh
p. 0593 | Krishnan, K. S.

Annual Review of Biophysics, 2008 by Douglas C. Rees, Michael P. Sheetz and James R. Williamson (eds)
p. 0594 | Panda, Dulal

Recent Advances in Earth System Sciences - Golden Jubilee Volume by Harsh Gupta and Fareeduddin (eds)
p. 0595 | Rajendran, C. P.

Indian Academy of Sciences elects new Fellows - 2009
p. 0597

Publications received - 2008
p. 0598

Ministry of Science & Technology SwarnaJayanti Fellowships 2008-09
p. 0601

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY 3RD CALL FOR CONCEPT PAPER ON DEVELOPMENT OF RNAi TECHNOLOGY FOR APPLICATION IN AGRICULTURE AND MEDICINE
p. 0603

Darwinisn - A Sesqui-Centennial Celebration
p. 0604

Anna University Chennai
p. 0605

Government of India AWARD OF DBT-JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (DBT-JRF)
p. 0606

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY 4TH CALL FOR PRE-PROPOSALS IN THE AREAS OF NANO MEDICINE AND NANO AGRICULTURE
p. 0607

INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH
p. 0608

The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
p. 0609

The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
p. 0610

CENTRE FOR CO-OPERATION IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
p. 0611

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
p. 0612

Anna University Chennai - Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India Sponsored Research Project
p. 0613

Anna University Chennai - DAE-BRNS Sponsored Research Project
p. 0613

University of Madras
p. 0614

2010 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award
p. 0614

CENTRE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL RESEARCH
p. 0615

PANDIT DEENDAYAL PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
p. 0615

Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
p. 0616

SERC School on Crustal Deformation and Tectonic Geomorphology
p. 0616

INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTRE FOR POWDER METALLURGY AND NEW MATERIALS (ARCI)
p. 0617

ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE POST OF JRF/PROJECT ASSISTANT IN BHU
p. 0617

School of Life Sciences
p. 0617

SPONSORED RESEARCH & INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY
p. 0618

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
p. 0618

M. S. University of Baroda Vadodara 390 001
p. 0618