In this issue
p. 0455

LAL test for biomedical devices
p. 0457 | Rathinam, K.; Vijayakumar, H.

Surface sugar of cancer cell: The sweeter the deadlier?
p. 0458 | Appukuttan, P. S.

India launches new weekly contraceptive pill
p. 0459

Applied molecular evolution:The Shape of things to come
p. 0459 | Gopalakrishnan, Vidhya

Culture-industry interaction in the printing process
p. 0461 | Rajan, M. A. S.

Rational deployment of Bacillus thuringiensis strains for control of insect pests in India
p. 0464 | Padidam, Malla

A caveat
p. 0465 | Jayaraman, Kunthala

Mission energy planning-the Tata Energy Reseach Institute
p. 0466

Applied laser spectroscopy-Techniques and trends
p. 0469 | Kartha, V. B.

Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen and its regulation
p. 0478 | Kumar, Anil

Environmental impacts of the Persian Gulf oil spill and oil-fire smoke
p. 0486 | Rao, U. R.; Chandrasekhar, M. G.; Radhakrishnan, K.; Jayaraman, V.; Desai, P. S.; Pal, P. K.; Joshi, P. C.

Migration of double bond in stobble reactions
p. 0493 | Jabbar, Saba; Gupta, Geeta

Source and mechanism of carbon dioxide gas accurrences in water wells at and around Vidavaluru, South India
p. 0494 | Radhakrishna, I.

Fossil cyanobacteria from the stromatolitic phosphorites of Udaipur, Rajasthan, West India
p. 0497 | Sisodia, M. S.

Annual Review of Nutrition 1990
p. 0500 | Chandrasekhara, N.

Teacher-mathematician An obituary of V. V. Narlikar
p. 0502 | Vaidya, P. C.

Regional sophisticated instrumentation centre
p. 0503

Indian Institute of Astrophysics
p. 0504