In this issue
p. 0878

Sustainable materials based on aliphatic polyesters: teaching old chemistry some new tricks
p. 0879 | Sivaram, S.

Where are our journals heading?
p. 0881 | Arun, Waman Ajit; Bohra, Pooja

In defence of the standards of teaching and research in Indian universities in the context of international university rankings
p. 0882 | Nagaiah, K.; Srimannarayana, G.

Ranking of IITs in materials science and engineering
p. 0882 | Prathap, Gangan

Lusi mud volcano, Indonesia
p. 0883 | Shah, A. A.

Peak water and demand side management
p. 0884 | Naik, Prabir Kumar

Streamflow data-sharing policy for the Ganga Basin
p. 0885 | Jain, Sharad Kumar

Role of veterinarians in vulture conservation
p. 0886 | Dama, Madhukar

The Gangetic dolphins plead for mercy
p. 0887 | Garg, Arti; Singh, R. Kr.; Gupta, S. L.; Singh, Vineet; Siddiqui, Y. A.

Sarasvati II
p. 0888 | Giosan, Liviu; Clift, Peter D.; Macklin, Mark G.; Fuller, Dorian Q.

Revolutionizing personal computing
p. 0891 | Sheth, Parul R.

Threatened by fashion
p. 0891 | Herlekar, Ipsita

Hydrogen bond seen, halogen bond defined and carbon bond proposed: intermolecular bonding, a field that is maturing!
p. 0892 | Arunan, E.

Diversity of the science ecosystem
p. 0895 | Mukhi, Sunil

The endosulfan episode: common sense versus science
p. 0897 | Sreekumar, K. M.; Prathapan, K. D.

A Dinosaurian ulna from a new locality of Lameta succession, Salbardi area, districts Amravati, Maharashtra and Betul, Madhya Pradesh
p. 0900 | Srivastava, Ashok K.; Mankar, Rupesh S.

Food for thought: do soil microbes need food too? indeed, lest we don’t need ours
p. 0902 | Gopal, Murali; Gupta, Alka; Thomas, George V.

Is Third World agricultural R&D slipping into a technological orphanage?
p. 0908 | Chadha, G. K.; Ramasundaram, P.; Sendhil, R.

Carbon capture and storage: an effective way to mitigate global warming
p. 0914 | Singh, Udayan

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering: overview of a versatile technique used in electrochemistry and nanoscience
p. 0923 | Sur, Ujjal Kumar; Chowdhury, Joydeep

Anthropogenic factors responsible for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
p. 0940 | Yale, Gowri; Bhanurekha, V.; Ganesan, P. I.

Trend analysis of weather variables in Sagar Island, West Bengal, India: a long-term perspective (1982–2010)
p. 0947 | Mandal, S.; Choudhury, B. U.; Mondal, M.; Bej, S.

An index for predicting the onset of monsoon over Kerala
p. 0954 | Puranik, S. S.; Ray, K. C. Sinha; Sen, P. N.; Kumar, P. Pradeep

Light transmission through and its complete stoppage in an ultra slow wave optical medium
p. 0962 | Ranjith, V.; Kumar, N.

Prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using surface temperature and sea-level pressure cluster parameters
p. 0964 | Kakade, S. B.; Kulkarni, A.

Plant height profiling in western India using LiDAR data
p. 0970 | Tripathi, P.; Behera, M. D.

Gold, silver and platinum group of elements mineralization in Precambrian uraniferous quartz-pebble conglomerates of Mankarhachua area, Angul District, Odisha
p. 0978 | Chakrabarti, Kalyan; Ecka, N. R. R.; Mishra, Brundaban; Kumar, K. Mahendra; Katti, V. J.; Umamaheswar, K.; Parihar, P. S.; Mukhopadhyay, Joydip; Ghosh, G.

Microbial gas-sensing property of Escherichia coli with mixed metal catalyst MgFe₂O₄
p. 0984 | Bangale, Sachin; Chaugule, Vinay; Prakshale, Reshma; Bamane, Sambaji

Coastal erosion triggered by a shipwreck along the coast of Goa, India
p. 0990 | Murali, R. Mani; Babu, M. T.; Mascarenhas, Antonio; Choudhary, Richa; Sudheesh, K.; Vethamony, P.

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2012. Aravinda Chakravarti and Eric Green (eds)
p. 0997 | Acharya, Moulinath

My Brain Made Me Do It. The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility. Eliezer J. Sternberg
p. 0999 | Khare, Narmada

Mangroves of India – Their Biology and Uses. J. R. Bhatt et al. (eds)
p. 1000 | Khan, S. Ajmal

Deformation Microstructures in Rocks. Soumyajit Mukherjee
p. 1001 | Ghosh, Rajkumar

Centenary of ‘Researches on Irritability of Plants’ by Jagadis Chandra Bose
p. 1002 | Chowdhury, Debashish

Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowshop Program
p. 1005

Himalayan Glaciology Research Programme - Science and Engineering Research Board
p. 1006

Admission for Research Scholars Program – II – 2013 - Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
p. 1007

Nationwide Call for Research Proposals - CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute
p. 1008

RECRUITMENTS OF DEANS AND SCIENTISTS - National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
p. 1009

Research Positions Available - Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation
p. 1010

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms
p. 1011

6th Bangalore India NANO
p. 1012

Science Academies’ Refresher Course in Quantum Mechanics, 2–14 December 2013
p. 1013

Indo-US Professorship in Microbiology
p. 1014

Science Academies’ Summer Research Fellowship Programme for Students and Teachers – 2014
p. 1015

Training Program on Climate Science - Indian Institute of Science
p. 1016

Assistant Professors/Lecturers to attend symposium on ‘Vistas of Life Sciences, Now and Beyond’, to be organized by the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
p. 1017

Invites Appliecations Continuous Induction Program - Department of Biotechnology
p. 1017

Training Workshop on Green and Sustainable Technologies - The Energy and Resources Institute
p. 1018

Junior Research Fellowship & Research Associates - Departmant of Space
p. 1018

Junior Research Fellow - Karunya University
p. 1019

Junior Research Fellow and Field Assistant - Rain Forest Research Institute
p. 1019

DST-SERB Winter School on Modeling Chemical and Biological (Re)Activity - SERB Winter School on MCBR
p. 1020

Senior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology
p. 1020

Junior Research Fellow - Mangalore University
p. 1020

Search for Director - National Institute of Advanced Studies
p. 1021

Junior Research Fellows - SRM University
p. 1021

Junior Research Fellows - Regional Plant Resource Centre
p. 1021

TATA Innovation Fellowship: 2013–14
p. 1022

Call for Applications for Full-time Ph.D. - Sastra University
p. 1023