In this issue
p. 0647

Science in India
p. 0649 | Mishra, Krishna Kumar

Declining interest towards science research
p. 0650 | Rakshit, A. K.

Assessment of health risk
p. 0650 | Virk, H. S.

Assessment of health risk(Reply)
p. 0650 | Ramola, R. C.; Kandari, M. S.; Rawat, R. B. S.

Intense laser fields and their interaction with matter
p. 0652 | Sathyamurthy, N.

Another brick in the Tower of Babel : The search for an universal language
p. 0653 | Sinha, Anindya

Haldane's God and the honoured beetles : The cost of a quip
p. 0656 | Ganeshaiah, K. N.

The 'proto-Indian' population identified in the recent mtDNA studies posit an ancient southeast Asian migration that passed through India
p. 0661 | Barnabas, S.; Suresh, C. G.

A diaelectical perspective of agricultural research for sustainable development
p. 0663 | Narain, P.

Metallocarbohedrenes : Recent advancements
p. 0666 | Selvan, R.; Pradeep, T.

Promoter structure and gene function of Acinetobactor calcoaceticus encoded trp FB operon
p. 0681 | Kishan, Veerabrahma

Influence of moonlight on the foraging behaviour of the Indian short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx : Radio-telemetry studies
p. 0688 | Nair, N. Gopakumar; Elangovan, V.; Subbaraj, R.

Sex attractants in male preputial gland : Chemical identification and their role in reproductive behaviour of rats
p. 0689 | Kannan, S.; Kumar, K. Ramesh; Archunan, G.

Effect of chronic atenolol treatment on responses to noradrenaline and terbutaline in isolated ventricle from hyperthyriod rats
p. 0691 | Bhugra, Praveen; Gulati, O. D.

Octopamine titre in the circulating fluid of tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury (Lepidoptera : Saturniide) and its response to injected estrogen during critical phase of diapause termination
p. 0695 | Chaudhari, Ananthbandhu; Krishnan, N.; Sarkar, Pradip Kumar; Sinha, Ashok Kumar; Sinha, S. S.; Ray, Arun Kumar

Micropropagation of Eremostachys superba - An endangered, endemic species from India
p. 0699 | Sunnichan, V. G.; Shivanna, K. R.

Mid-continent gravity 'high' and seismic activities in central India
p. 0702 | Mishra, D. C.; Gupta, S. B.

Micropalaeontological evidence for tectonic uplift of near-shore deposits around Bankot-Velas, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra
p. 0705 | Rajashekhar, C.; Kumaran, K. P. N.

A Carnival for Science : Essays on Science. Technology and Development
p. 0709 | Raina, Dhruv

Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings - The world of an Engineer
p. 0710 | Shankar, P. N.

Science Matters : The Principles of Science Simply Explained
p. 0711 | Prathap, Gangan

Bharathidasan University
p. 0712

Ocean Science and Technology Cell(OSTC) - Call for Research Proposals
p. 0713

B. M. Birla Science Prizes
p. 0713

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
p. 0714

Inter University Consortium for Dae Facilities, Indore (IUC DAEF)
p. 0715

Indian Science Congress Association-Young Scientists Award Programme
p. 0716