In this issue
p. 0491

Decline in interest for S and T training
p. 0493 | Suresh, Y.

Geo-hazard with oil and gas production in Krishna-Godavary Basin
p. 0494 | Rao, G. Krishna

Genetic resources and traditional knowledge: From Chennai to Bratislava
p. 0495 | Swaminathan, M. S.

Earth sciences go to fractal way
p. 0497 | Srivastava, Vipin

Polar plumes and the solar wind: New clues from SUMER/SOHO
p. 0499 | Dwivedi, B. N.; Mohan, Anitha

Unique ultra-structural features of photo receptor cells and their functional significance in the retina of the frog, Rana limnocharis (Wiegmann)
p. 0502 | Dey, Sudip; Hooroo, R. N. K.; Begum, A.; Goswami, U. C.

Male sterility in Plantago ovata Forsk
p. 0504 | Jamwal, Sujata; Dhar, Manoj K.; Kaul, Sanjana

Research opportunities to young Indian Scientists through grant from International Foundation for science
p. 0506 | Singh, D. V.

Usability of Parallel processing computers in numerical weather prediction
p. 0508 | Basu, B. K.

Molecular analysis of polyamine biosynthesis in higher plants
p. 0517 | Chattopadhyay, Manas K.; Ghosh, Bharati

Antifeedant effect of some plant extracts on the Asian armyworm, Spodoptera litura (Fabricius)
p. 0523 | Sahayaraj, K.

A note on the investigation of fiber-matrix adhesion in sisal fiber-polyester composites
p. 0526 | Gupta, M.; Verma, Anchal; Singh, B.

Ecobiological assessment of a freshwater lake at Schirmacher Oasis, East Antartica, with reference to human activities
p. 0529 | Ingole, Baban; Dhargalkar, Vinod

Influence of group density and sex ratio on the immune response in the tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters)
p. 0534 | Ravikumar, M.; Michael, R. Dinakaran

Lamellar angiography, a novel method for gill respiratory area measurement: SEM of gill corrosion vascolar replica
p. 0537 | Ojha, J.; Varma, M. C.; Ghosh, T. K.

Regeneration of Indian cotton variety MCU-5 through somatic embryogenesis
p. 0538 | Kumar, Shashi; Pental, Deepak

Discovery of silicified microfossils from the Khatpul Formation, Shali Group (Neoproterozoic), H. P., India
p. 0541 | Rai, Vibhuti; Gautam, Ranjith

The effect of physico-chemical parameters on the erosion of monumental stones of Orissa
p. 0545 | Bhargav, J. S.; Mishra, R. C.; Das, C. R.

Calcutta's industrial pollution: Groundwater arsenic contamination in residential area and sufferings of people due to industrial effluent discharge - An eight-year study report
p. 0548 | Chakraborti, D.; Samanta, G.; Mandal, B. K.; Chowdhury, T. Roy; Chanda, C. R.; Biswas, B. K.; Dhar, R. K.; Basu, G. K.; Saha, K. C.

Plasmid profile of Erwinia herbicola ATCC 21998
p. 0548 | Koul, S.; Verma, V.; Kumar, Ananda; Qazi, G. N.

Planet Earth - The View from Space
p. 0549 | Rangarajan, S.

Annual Review of Medicine: Selected Topics in Clinical Sciences
p. 0550 | Kartha, C. C.

Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics
p. 0552 | Krishnan, K. S.

Jaroslav Heyrovsky, the inventor of polarography
p. 0554 | Heyrovska, Rajalakshmi

Department of Science and Technology - JSPS Postdoctoral fellowships: 1998-99
p. 0558

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany - Prof. T. M. Harris Medal-1998
p. 0559

Tenth International Conference-Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials
p. 0560

Calls for applications for beamtime allocation Japanese Super Photon Ring-8 GeV(Spring-8)
p. 0560