In this issue
p. 0594

Higher Education: Rocky Road to Reform
p. 0595 | Balaram, P.

What else the three science academies could have deliberated?
p. 0597 | Rao, Adhikarla S.

Why Darwin would hate mobile phones more than cancers?
p. 0598 | Dama, Madhukar Shivajirao; Singh, Rajendra

Climate change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers (Response)
p. 0599 | Chaujar, Ravinder Kumar

Climate change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers
p. 0599 | Achenbach, Hermann

From ornamental to detrimental: plant invasion of Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. (Ox-eye Daisy) in Kashmir valley, India
p. 0600 | Khuroo, Anzar A.; Malik, Akhtar H.; Reshi, Zafar A.; Dar, G. H.

Ensete superbum (Roxb. ) Cheesman: a rare medicinal plant in urgent need of conservation
p. 0602 | Kumar, V. Saroj; Jaishanker, R.; Annamalai, A.; Iyer, C. S. P.

Nectar robbery in bird pollinated mangroves!
p. 0603 | Nagarajan, B.; Krishnamoorthy, M.; Padmini, S.; Daniel, A.

Effect of casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia) plantation on the sand skink (Eutropis bibronii Gray 1839) population
p. 0604 | Subramanean, J.; Reddy, M. Vikram

Awareness and capacity building programme on carbon capture and storage
p. 0606 | Goel, Malti

Ethnomedicines and traditional healers of biodiversity hotspots of northeast India
p. 0607 | Singh, Ranjay K.; Srivastava, R. C.

Novel approaches for activity-based standardization of herbal drugs
p. 0610 | Sumantran, Venil N.

Explanation of genetic component of human height by recent genome-wide association studies
p. 0611 | Gupta, Vipin; Sachdeva, M. P.

Evaluation of speech processing schemes to improve perception of sensorineural hearing impaired
p. 0613 | Kolte, Mahesh T.; Chaudhari, D. S.

DIVA-GIS approaches for diversity assessment of pod characteristics in black gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper)
p. 0616 | Abraham, Babu; Kamala, V.; Sivaraj, N.; Sunil, N.; Pandravada, S. R.; Vanaja, M.; Varaprasad, K. S.

The latest (2008-09) eruption of Barren Island volcano, and some thoughts on its hazards, logistics and geotourism aspects
p. 0620 | Sheth, Hetu C.; Ray, Jyothiranjan S.; Bhutani, Rajneesh; Kumar, Alok; Awasthi, Neeraj

Gasifier stoves - science, technology and field outreach
p. 0627 | Mukunda, H. S.; Dasappa, S.; Paul, P. J.; Rajan, N. K. S.; Yagnaraman, Mahesh; Kumar, D. Ravi; Deogaonkar, Mukund

Mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation by proteins
p. 0639 | Kumar, Santosh; Udgaonkar, Jayant B.

Forest cover change detection of Western Ghats of Maharashtra using satellite remote sensing based visual interpretation technique
p. 0657 | Panigrahy, Rabindra K.; Kale, Manish P.; Dutta, Upasana; Mishra, Asima; Banerjee, Bishwarup; Singh, Sarnam

Conservation implications of the channel changes in Sharda River on endangered swamp deer population and floodplain ecosystem in Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India
p. 0665 | Midha, Neha; Mathur, Pradeep K.

Parental care strategies of grey-headed bulbul, Pycnonotus priocephalus in the Western Ghats, South Indi
p. 0673 | Balakrishnan, P.

²¹⁰Po radiation dose due to cigarette smoking
p. 0681 | Godwin, Wesley S.; Subha, Vincila R.; Feroz, Khan M.

Artificial seed production from encapsulated PLBs regenerated from leaf base of Vanda coerulea Grifft. ex. Lindl. - an endangered orchid
p. 0686 | Sarmah, Debojit Kumar; Borthakur, M.; Borua, P. K.

Application of numerical modelling for morphological changes in a high-energy beach during the south-west monsoon
p. 0691 | Shamji, V. R.; Hameed, T. S. Shahul; Kurian, N. P.; Thomas, K. V.

Geopathic stress: a study to understand its nature using Light Interference Technique
p. 0695 | Dharmadhikari, N. P.; Meshram, D. C.; Kulkarni, S. D.; Hambarde, S. M.; Rao, A. P.; Pimplikar, S. S.; Kharat, A. G.; Patil, P. T.

Polymetallic sulphide mineralization in Chiplakot crystallines, northeast Kumaun Himalaya
p. 0698 | Sharma, Rajesh; Chauhan, Dinesh S.; Rao, D. Rameshwar

India in the World of Physics: Then and Now by Asoke N. Mitra
p. 0703 | Menon, M. G. K.

Remembering Sir J. C. Bose by D. P. Sen Gupta, M. H. Engineer and V. A. Shepherd
p. 0705 | Swaminathan, M. S.

Disaster Management: Global Challenges and Local Solutions by Rajib Shaw and R. R. Krishnamurthy
p. 0706 | Gupta, Harsh

Plant Taxonomy by O. P. Sharma
p. 0707 | Rao, R. R.

Vitaly L. Ginzburg (1916-2009)
p. 0708 | Malhotra, Richa

S. S. Sriramachari (1925-2009)
p. 0709 | Nath, Indira

Swami Vivekananda's use of science to communicate spirituality
p. 0711 | Monto, Geethanjali

Department of Physics
p. 0712

NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
p. 0713

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL GENOMICS
p. 0714

The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
p. 0715

The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
p. 0716

INVITATION OF NOMINATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS FOR PITAMBER PANT NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FELLOWSHIP AND DR B. P. PAL NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FELLOWSHIP AWARD FOR BIODIVERSITY FOR THE YEAR 2010
p. 0717

Millipore
p. 0718

The Indian Science Congress Association
p. 0719

Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)
p. 0720

DEPARTMENT OF BIOPHYSICS
p. 0720

BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
p. 0721

Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
p. 0721

UNIVERSITY OF KERALA
p. 0722

2011-2012 Fulbright-Nehru Fellowships in the US
p. 0722

AGRI BIOTECH FOUNDATION
p. 0723

3rd SERC Summer School on Solid State and Materials Chemistry
p. 0723

THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE CULTIVATION OF SCIENCE
p. 0724

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
p. 0724

International Institute of Information Technology
p. 0725

B. M. Birla Science Prizes
p. 0725

University of Mysore
p. 0725