In this issue
p. 1518

Who's afraid of impact factors
p. 1519 | Balaram, P.

Proliferation of awards will lower the quality of our basic research
p. 1521 | Bhattacharjee, S. K.

Why is NET necessary?
p. 1521 | Pandey, Vachaspati

Olive Ridleys in Orissa: Further comments
p. 1522 | Shanker, Kartik; Pandav, Bivash; Choudhury, B. C.

Probing fundamental problems with lasers and cold atoms: An Indo-French workshop
p. 1523 | Unnikrishnan, C. S.

Curious or dubious: The story of a hydrocarbon with an exceptionally short C=C bond length
p. 1526 | Chandrasekhar, J.

Thomas Malthus and sustainable agriculture
p. 1528 | Sinha, Suresh K.

The rise of the techno-baboo: IT is a brain-sink
p. 1531 | Kochhar, Rajesh

Gravity image of India
p. 1533 | Babu, H. V. Ram

Poaching, STF-activity and forest loss
p. 1535 | Shivaraj, B.; Shashidhar

Fish skull from Palana Formation at Hadla-Bhatiyan, District Bikaner, Rajasthan
p. 1536 | Paliwal, B. S.

Insect remains from Upper Triassic sediments of Satpura Basin, India
p. 1539 | Kumar, Pramod; Kumar, Prabhat

Occurrence of Cynopterus brachyotis (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Southern India
p. 1542 | Balasingh, J.; Ronald, J.; Nathan, P. Thiruchenthil; Isaac, S. Suthakar

Protective effect of Picrorhiza kurroa on mitochondrial glutathione antioxidant system in D-galactosamine-induced hepatitis in rats
p. 1543 | Anandan, R.; Rekha, R. Deepa; Devaki, T.

Methane gas: An unconventional energy resource
p. 1546 | Singh, Alpana; Singh, Bhagwan D.

Lipoprotein (a): Biology and role in atherosclerotic vascular diseases
p. 1553 | Luthra, K.; Misra, A.; Srivastava, L. M.

Nanoscale measurements for computing Young's modulus with atomic force microscope
p. 1561 | Kaul, A. D.; Gangwal, A.; Wadhwa, S. S.

Langmuir-Blodgett films of poly alkyl thiophenes: Preparation and characterization of multilayers
p. 1566 | Somanathan, N.; Dhathathreyan, A.; Wegner, G.

Expression of nptII marker and gus reporter genes and their inheritance in subsequent generations of transgenic Brassica developed through Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer
p. 1569 | Paul, Soma; Sikdar, S. R.

Detection of sandal spike phytoplasma by polymerase chain reaction
p. 1574 | Thomas, Sunil; Balasundaran, M.

Total phenol profile in some rice varieties in relation to infestation by Asian rice gall midge Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason)
p. 1577 | Amudhan, S.; Rao, U. Prasada; Bentur, J. S.

Distribution of membrane-bound calcium and activated calmodulin in cultured protoplasts of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L. )
p. 1580 | Kalra, Geetika; Bhatla, S. C.

Truce with oxygen - Anaerobiosis outcompete aerobiosis in the Antarctic lacustrine bacteria
p. 1585 | Bharathi, P. A. Loka; Nair, Shanta; De souza, M. J.; Chandramohan, D.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume II
p. 1588 | Rangarajan, Govindan

Atlas of Carbonate Microfacies from the Reservoirs of Bombay Offshore Basin, India
p. 1589 | Bhattacharyya, Ajit

Annual Review of Microbiology 1998
p. 1590 | Singh, Jagmohan

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 1998
p. 1591 | Rajendran, Kusala; Rajendran, C. P.

Illustrated Text Book on Sericulture
p. 1593 | Shree, M. P.

Magnetic properties of solids: Krishnan's contribution
p. 1595 | Majumdar, C. K.

Looking for C. V. Raman? Hunt for the likes of Asutosh Mookerjee first
p. 1597 | Bhattacherjee, S. K.

(CSIR) - Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
p. 1598

INSDOC introduces Journal List Service and Recent Book Service
p. 1599

Indian Sciences Congress Association-Young Scientists Award Programme
p. 1600

Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
p. 1601

CDFD - Invites Applications for Staff Scientist Positions
p. 1602

CDFD - Invites Applications for Project Associate Positions
p. 1603

University of Pune - Recruitment of JRF
p. 1603

Astra Research Centre India and Cambridge Healthtech Institute USA
p. 1604

Department of Chemical Technology University of Mumbai
p. 1604

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
p. 1605

Jawaharlal Nehru University
p. 1605

Advertising in Current Science
p. 1608

Indian Academy of Sciences
p. 1609

Your Invitation to subscribe
p. 1611