In this issue
p. 0003

India is emerging global leader in science popularization
p. 0005 | Jain, N. C.

Cost-effective databases for research
p. 0005 | Virk, H. S.

The Raman effect
p. 0006 | Ramaseshan, S.

Phosphorite occurrence off Chennai
p. 0007 | Vaz, G. Gaitan

Phosphorite occurrence off Chennai(Response)
p. 0007 | Rao, V. Purnachandra

Following Shakti '98 US details tighter controls on the export to India of dual-use goods
p. 0008

Golden Jubilee meeting on gravitational radiation
p. 0009 | Morsink, Sharon

Golden Jubilee meeting on quantum general relativity
p. 0009 | Giulini, Domenico

3-D circuit boards by a novel electrochemical process
p. 0010 | Lakshminarayanan, V.

Sequence-specific DNA-binding molecules: A futuristic approach in drug design
p. 0011 | Ojha, Anil Kumar

Facilitation of technology transfer from research institutes to industry
p. 0013 | John, P. I.

Pusa neem golden urea for increasing nitrogen use efficiency in rice
p. 0015 | Prasad, Rajendra; Saxena, V. S.; Devakumar, C.

Turmeric (Curcuma longa), an ecofriendly ingredient to control seed-borne rice diseases
p. 0016 | Gangopadhyay, Srijib

The accelerator mass spectrometer facility at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, (MUDRA, MUlti Disciplinary Research Accelerator)
p. 0018 | Mahapatra, D. P.; Gopalan, K.; Somayajulu, B. L. K.

The biology of rudraksha
p. 0026 | Lee, David W.

Quasicrystals as part of an unusual species of intermetallic phases
p. 0031 | Anantharaman, T. R.

Modification of genotoxicity of radiation by post-irradiation treatment with caffeine
p. 0035 | Anjaria, K. B.; Rao, B. S.; Sankaranarayanan, N.

Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated gene transfer in mungbean (Vigna radiata L. (Wilczek))
p. 0041 | Jaiwal, Pawan K.; Sautter, Christof; Potrykus, Ingo

Variants of Trichophyton rubrum
p. 0045 | Das, S.; Choudhury, B. K.

Osmotropotaxis in larvae of Drosophila melanogaster
p. 0048 | Bala, Avinash Deep Singh; Panchal, Punita; Siddiqi, Obaid

Periodically varying sensitivity to melatonin in a mammalian circadian system
p. 0051 | Singaravel, M.; Sharma, V. K.; Subbaraj, R.

Seismic hazard analysis: An artificial neural network approach
p. 0054 | Arora, Manoj; Sharma, M. L.

Particle Modeling
p. 0060 | Shankar, P. N.

Annual Review of Public Health 1997
p. 0060 | Kutty, V. Raman

Dynamics of Cell and Tissue Motion
p. 0062 | Nanjundiah, Vidyanand

Our Evolving Planet: Earth History in New Perspective
p. 0063 | Sheth, H. C.

Professor Charles Frank, an obituary by K. P. Sinha
p. 0066

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
p. 0067

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Research Trainees in Radio Astronomy
p. 0068

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Research Positions in Radio Astronomy
p. 0069

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellowship at NCRA
p. 0070

Symposium on Advances in Medicinal Chemistry
p. 0071

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
p. 0071

National Physical Laboratory (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)
p. 0072

Training Course on 'GPS Data Acquisition and Processing Techniques'
p. 0172