In this issue
p. 1388

The integrity of structures
p. 1389 | Balaram, P.

Appointment of VCs and politicization of academics
p. 1391 | Rao, A. S.

Appointment of VCs
p. 1392 | Jemmis, E. D.

Science and human culture
p. 1392 | Roy, Rustum

Loss of innocence or gain of maturity
p. 1393 | Panchapakesan, N.

An appeal to scientists
p. 1393 | Tiwari, Suresh Chandra

Ph D theses from Indian universities
p. 1394 | Raman, Anantanarayanan

European sightings of the Crab supernova
p. 1394 | Vishwanath, P. R.

Need of bryophyte bank for environmental monitoring in India
p. 1395 | Saxena, Dinesh K.; Sharma, B. K.; Srivastava, H. S.; Saxena, Anuj; Shankar, Niharika; Kamakshi; Goswami, Adarsh

Serving human needs: Nuclear technology for sustainable development
p. 1397 | Bhatia, C. R.

Russia's supercomputer follows PARAM-10000
p. 1399

Change of Guard
p. 1399 | Sen, Nirupa

On the probable existence of life on Mars
p. 1400 | Singh, R. N.

From the archives
p. 1401

Reproducibility of metal fatigue
p. 1402 | Sunder, R.

Reproducibility of metal fatigue(Response)
p. 1406 | Parida, B. K.; Prahlad, T. S.

Adiposity and diabetes: Biochemical link
p. 1410 | Sridhar, G. R.

Effects of Ganesh-idol immersion on some water quality parameters of Hussainsagar Lake
p. 1412 | Reddy, M. Vikram; Kumar, A. Vijay

Predation of water bug Sphaerodema rusticum Fabricius on the snail Pomacea bridgesi (Reeve), introduced in India
p. 1413 | Aditya, G.; Raut, S. K.

Epicotyl seed dormancy and phenology of germination in Polygonatum cirrhifolium Royle
p. 1414 | Lattoo, S. K.; Dhar, A. K.; Jasrotia, A.

Reactivation of terrane-defining boundary thrusts in central sector of the Himalaya: Implications
p. 1418 | Valdiya, K. S.

High resolution Holocene monsoon records from different proxies: An assessment of their consistency
p. 1432 | Ramesh, R.

Aerosol radiation cloud interactions over the tropical Indian Ocean prior to the onset of the summer monsoon
p. 1437 | Jayaraman, A.

Biogeochemistry of Himalayan rivers as an agent of climate change
p. 1446 | Sarin, M. M.

Prediction of Indian summer monsoon: Status, problems and prospects
p. 1451 | Rajeevan, M.

Estimating nuclear waste production in India
p. 1458 | Ramana, M. V.; Thomas, Dennis George; Varughese, Susy

A new feature of low latitude geomagnetic storms
p. 1462 | Rastogi, R. G.

Glass based on a single proto-tile and inflation species without discrete diffractogram
p. 1466 | Mandal, Rajiv Kumar

Effect of metal ions and other antileishmanial drugs on Stibanate-resistant Leishmania donovani promastigotes of Indian origin
p. 1470 | Bhattacharyya, Anindita; Roy, Mandira; Mandal, Ardhendu; Duttagupta, Swadesh

Evidence for rare male mating advantage and sexual isolation in two karyotypically different strains of Drosophila ananassae
p. 1473 | Singh, Bashisth N.; Som, Arundhati

Petrography of Lamprophyre Dikes from nunataks South of Schirmacher, Central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
p. 1477 | Prasad, A. V. Keshava; Beg, M. J.; Chaturvedi, Arun

In vitro rooting of Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn., an endangered shrub, by auxins and root-promoting agents
p. 1479 | Reddy, B. Obul; Giridhar, P.; Ravishankar, G. A.

In vitro induction and enlargement of apical domes and formation of multiple shoots in finger millet, Eleusine coracana (L. ) Gaertn and crowfoot grass, Eleusine indica (L. ) Gaertn
p. 1482 | Kumar, Satish; Agarwal, Kalpana; Kothari, S. L.

The Diamond Makers
p. 1486 | Bose, D. N.

Science and Technology Data Book--2000
p. 1487 | Rajeswari, A. R.

Arnold Sommerfeld - The supporter of Indian physics in Germany
p. 1489 | Singh, Rajinder

Asian Crystallographic Association felicitates Ramaseshan and Verma
p. 1495 | Rao, K. R.

Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Adv. Res.
p. 1497

Indian Assoc. for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
p. 1498

TICEL Bio Park, Chennai
p. 1499

AstraZeneca
p. 1500

National Seminar on Recent Adv. in Mol. Physiol., Univ. Kalyani, West Bengal
p. 1500

Catalysis Research, IIT -- Kharagpur
p. 1501

Cen. Soil Salin. Res. Inst., RRS Canning, West Bengal
p. 1501

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
p. 1502

Require a Technical Co-Founder for a New Bioinformatics Venture
p. 1502

SUBMISSION IN ELECTRONIC FORM
p. 1502