In this issue
p. 0003

Fermat's last theorem (1637)-Proof at last?
p. 0005

Intellectual property rights
p. 0006 | Siddhartha, V.

UK Government research
p. 0006 | Bondi, Hermann

Basic science
p. 0007 | Vittal, N.; Irani, Jamshed J.; Kacker, S. K.

The levels of magnesium and lanthanides in coconut root (wilt)
p. 0008 | Valiathan, M. S.; Eapen, J. T.; Mathews, C. K.

Towards a new technological frontier
p. 0008 | Hussain, Abid

Health and economic implications of imported toxic legumes
p. 0012 | Bhat, Ramesh V.; Raghuram, T. C.

Comets as probes of the interplanetary medium
p. 0014 | Chandrashekhar, T.

Introduction
p. 0019

Fusion power, who needs it?!
p. 0020 | Kaw, P. K.

Tokamak experiments at Institute for Plasma Research
p. 0025 | Sen, A.; Saxena, Y. C.

Fundamental plasma studies at IPR
p. 0036 | Kaw, P. K.

Plasma-assisted material processing
p. 0048 | John, P. I.

1, 2-Bis (diphenylphosphino) etane bridged dinuclear copper (I) complexes: Investigations of solid state and solution structures by CP/MAS³¹P NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, IR spectroscopy and solution ³¹P NMR and ⁶³Cu NMR spectroscopy
p. 0057 | Vijatashree, N.; Samuelson, A. G.; Nethaji, M.

Banas dislocation zone in Nathdwara-Khamnor area, Udaipur District, Rajasthan, and its significance on the basement-cover relations in the Aravalli fold belt
p. 0068 | Sinha-roy, S.; Mohanty, M.; Guha, D. B.

A regression approach to estimation in two-phase sampling using two auxiliary variables
p. 0073 | Sahoo, J.; Sahoo, L. N.; Mohanty, S.

Electron transfer chemiluminescence of Buckminsterfullerene radical anion and thianthrene cation
p. 0075 | Gupta, Neeraj; Santhanam, K. S. V.

Crystal structure of a tripeptide, glycyl-D, L-leucyl-L, D alanine
p. 0077 | Jayashree, V.; Rajan, S. S.; Subramanian, E.

Mutations at the stm A locus of Drosphila melanogaster confer resistance to the sodium channel neuropoison veratridine
p. 0080 | Chandrashekharan, S.

Germ cells cytotoxicity in tumour-bearing mouse subjected to single therapeutic dose of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II)
p. 0082 | Biswas, Tanusree; Chakrabarti, Samar

Regulation of Hill reaction coupled to photoreduction of nitrete and nitrite in Anabaena doliolum
p. 0085 | Bisen, P. S.; Shanthy, S.

Annual Review of Cell Biology 1992
p. 0088 | Swarup, Ghanshyam

Annual review of Microbiology 1992
p. 0088 | Ramakrishnan, T.

P. C. Mahalanobis
p. 0090 | Rao, C. R.

My friendship with Ramanujan in England
p. 0094 | Mahalanobis, P. C.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
p. 0096 | Bose, Satyendranath

Scientific contributions of Professor P. C. Mahalanobis
p. 0097 | Majumder, Dwijesh Dutta

Sree chitra tirunal institute for medical sciences and technology
p. 0102