In this issue
p. 0899

Technology-driven science
p. 0901 | Balaram, P.

The plight of geoscientists
p. 0903 | Joshi, Vishwas B.

Lack of talented students in science
p. 0903 | Gupta, Y. K.

Scientists and responsibility
p. 0904 | Dharmapalan, Biju

The threat of human-induced climate change cannot be ignored
p. 0904 | Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy; Hsu, Minna J.

Summer approaches - Digging for water recharging points
p. 0905 | Rao, N. Subba

Indo-Mauritius ties: Biotechnology and agriculture
p. 0906 | Sen, Nirupa

C. N. R. Rao elected to African Academy
p. 0906

Annual Convention of Indian Geophysical Union
p. 0906 | Murthy, K. S. R.

From blots to lots of spots: ADNAT symposium on Functional Genomics
p. 0908 | Kasbekar, Durgadas P.

Muon anomalous magnetic moment and 'new physics'
p. 0910 | Basu, Rahul

Palaeontology in India at crossroads
p. 0913 | Sharma, Mukund

From the archives
p. 0918

Detergent-induced male sterility and bud pollination in Brassica juncea (L. ) Czern & Coss
p. 0918 | Chauhan, S. V. S.; Singh, Vandana

The catastrophic landslide of 16 July 2001 in Phata Byung area, Rudraprayag District, Garhwal Himalaya, India
p. 0921 | Naithani, Ajay K.; Kumar, Deepak; Prasad, C.

Some conceptual and practical issues in taxonomic research
p. 0924 | Venu, P.

Tuberculosis research in India and China: From bibliometrics to research policy
p. 0933 | Arunachalam, Subbiah; Gunasekaran, Subbiah

Molecular and cellular approaches to understand and treat some disease of the eye
p. 0948 | Balasubramanian, D.

Recent experiments in quantum optics and their implications - II
p. 0958 | Joshi, Amitabh; Lawande, Suresh V.

Geomorphological and petrological observations along a segment of slow-spreading Carlsberg Ridge
p. 0982 | Mudholkar, A. V.; Kodagali, V. N.; Raju, K. A. Kamesh; Valsangkar, A. B.; Ranade, G. H.; Ambre, N. V.

Structure of the lowest octupole states in N = 82 magic nuclei
p. 0990 | Sainath, M.; Venkataramaniah, K.; Singh, B.; Sood, P. C.

Large-scale helium escape from earth surface around Bakreswar-Tantloi geothermal area in Birbhum district, West Bengal, and Dumka district, Jharkhand, India
p. 0993 | Ghose, Debasis; Chowdhury, D. P.; Sinha, Bikash

Statistical model-based forecast of minimum and maximum temperatures at Manali
p. 0997 | Dimri, A. P.; Mohanty, U. C.; Madan, O. P.; Ravi, N.

Intraspecific hybridization in Pinus roxburghii Sargent
p. 1003 | Khanduri, V. P.; Sharma, C. M.

Purification and characterization of a galactose-specific lectin from the stems and leaves of Dolichos lablab (Indian lablab beans)
p. 1005 | Tulasi, Rajasekhar Baru; Nadimpalli, Siva Kumar

Colony morphology mutants of chemolithotrophic Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans are associated with altered genomic distribution of family 1 repetitive DNA sequence
p. 1009 | Chakraborty, Ranadhir; Singh, Anjana; Lahiri, Chandrajit; Deb, Chirajyoti; Roy, Pradosh

Heterogeneity in NTS of rDNA in localized populations of Neurospora
p. 1015 | Adhvaryu, Keyur K.; Maheshwari, Ramesh

Moonlight inhibits and lunar eclipse enhances foraging activity of fruit bats in an orchard
p. 1020 | Singaravelan, N.; Marimuthu, G.

Conservation of flagship species: Prioritizing Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) conservation units in southern India
p. 1022 | Venkataraman, Arun B.; Kumar, N. Venkatesa; Varma, Surendra; Sukumar, R.

Identification and usage of multiples of crustal seismics - An application in the Bengal Basin, India
p. 1033 | Prasad, A. S. S. S. R. S.; Sarkar, D.; Reddy, P. R.

Kinetics of differentiated stylolite formation
p. 1038 | Sinha-roy, S.

The Big and the Small: Journey into the Microcosm - The Story of Elementary Particles
p. 1047 | Raychaudhuri, Amitava

The Handicap Principal: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle
p. 1047 | Kunte, Krushnamegh

“AIDS in India: A Workshop-Symposium on Research, Trials and Treatment” 21-27 July 2002
p. 1050

Government of India: Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
p. 1052

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
p. 1053

REFRESHER COURSE IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
p. 1054

REFRESHER COURSE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
p. 1055

Orissa Bigyan Academy-Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for 2001
p. 1056

Hari Om Ashram Prerit Shri S. S. Bhatnagar, Research Award Endowment 2000 and 2001
p. 1056

Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre
p. 1057

American biotechnology
p. 1057