In this issue
p. 1296

Requiem for a missing generation
p. 1297 | Balaram, P.

Is Gahirmatha the world's largest sea turtle rookery?
p. 1299 | Tripathy, Basudev

Haze layer over the Indian Ocean - natural or anthropogenic?
p. 1300 | Kamra, A. K.

Limited usefulness and relevance of coaching for competitive examinations
p. 1301 | Gupta, Y. K.

Appalling lethargy
p. 1302 | Biyani, A. K.; Joshi, M. N.

Smallpox variolation
p. 1302 | Raman, T. S.

India-US High Technology Co-operation Group to think 'boldly and creatively'
p. 1303

French honour for India's space scientist
p. 1303 | Sen, Nirupa

NMR - Bigger, stronger, faster ...
p. 1304 | Sarma, Siddhartha P.

On the Asian Brown Cloud controversy
p. 1307 | Srinivasan, J.; Gadgil, Sulochana

From the archives
p. 1310

Random selections
p. 1311

Major constituents in leaf essential oils of Curcuma longa L. and Curcuma aromatica Salisb.
p. 1312 | Behura, Sakuntala; Sahoo, S.; Srivastava, V. K.

Porphyra - the economic seaweed as a new experimental system
p. 1313 | Sahoo, Dinabandhu; Tang, Xiaorong; Yarish, Charles

Potential of the leech Glossiphonia weberi (Blanchard) in controlling the sewage snail Physa acuta Draparnaud
p. 1317 | Aditya, G.; Raut, S. K.

Lidar remote sensing for forestry applications: The Indian context
p. 1320 | Behera, M. D.; Roy, P. S.

Human-mangrove conflicts: The way out
p. 1328 | Upadhyay, V. P.; Ranjan, Rajiv; Singh, J. S.

Chaperonins as protein-folding machines
p. 1337 | Bhutani, Nidhi; Udgaonkar, Jayant B.

Ex situ conservation of rare and valuable forest tree species through seed-gene bank
p. 1351 | Phartyal, Shyam S.; Thapliyal, R. C.; Koedam, Nico; Godefroid, Sandrine

A comparative analysis of regeneration in natural forests and joint forest management plantations in Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats
p. 1358 | Murthy, Indu K.; Murali, K. S.; Hegde, G. T.; Bhat, P. R.; Ravindranath, N. H.

Design, development and studies on Raman-based fibre-optic distributed temperature sensor
p. 1365 | Kher, Sanjay; Srikant, G.; Chaube, Smita; Chakraborty, Arup Lal; Nathan, T. P. S.; Bhawalkar, D. D.

Cobalt(II)-bis-(1,10-phenanthroline)-triphenylmethane dye complexes and their photo-sensitization properties in nano-porous photovoltaic devices
p. 1368 | Jayaweera, P. M.; Palayangoda, S. S.; Tennakone, K.; Gamage, R. G. C. R.

Automated NMR assignments of proteins for high throughput structure determination: TATAPRO II
p. 1372 | Atreya, H. S.; Chary, K. V. R.; Govil, Girjesh

Mechanism of artificial transformation of E. coli with plasmid DNA - Clues from the influence of ethanol
p. 1376 | Sarkar, Suchitra; Chaudhuri, Sujan; Basu, Tarakdas

Carbon sequestration estimates for forestry options under different land-use scenarios in India
p. 1380 | Bhadwal, Suruchi; Singh, Roma

Bioefficacy of toosendanin from Melia dubia (syn. M. azedarach) against gram pod-borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner)
p. 1387 | Koul, Opender; Multani, J. S.; Singh, Gurmeet; Wahab, Seema

Regeneration status and population structure of Rudraksh (Elaeocarpus ganitrus Roxb. ) in relation to cultural disturbances in tropical wet evergreen forest of Arunachal Pradesh
p. 1391 | Bhuyan, Putul; Khan, M. L.; Tripathi, R. S.

Pollination ecology and fruiting behaviour in a monoecious species Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae)
p. 1395 | Raju, A. J. Solomon; Ezradanam, V.

Onset of climate change at Last Glacial-Holocene transition: Role of the tropical Pacific
p. 1398 | Sant, Dhananjay A.; Rangarajan, Govindan

Erratum
p. 1402

A Collection of Interesting General Chemistry Experiments
p. 1403 | Murugavel, R.

Biochromatography: Theory and Practice
p. 1404 | Gupta, M. N.; Roy, Ipsita

Science and Technology in Ancient India
p. 1405 | Balasubramanian, A. V.

Migraine: A Neuroinflammatory Disease
p. 1406 | Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi

The Dynamic Neuron
p. 1407 | Krishnan, K. S.

Kaveri Riverine System: An Environmental Study
p. 1407 | Munshi, J. S. Datta

Cyril Wace Nicholas (1898-1961): Gentleman, scholar and the first warden of the Wild Life Department, Sri Lanka
p. 1408 | Santiapillai, Charles

DST, Women Scientists scholarship
p. 1410

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute For Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram: Appointments
p. 1414

Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun: Appointment
p. 1416

Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Poitiers,(France): Appointment
p. 1417

IIT, Kharagpur: Appointment
p. 1417

Workshop/Training Course, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram
p. 1418

DBT, National Women Bioscientist Awards: 2002 - Extension of last date
p. 1418

Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur: appointments
p. 1419

CRV Consultants Private Limited, Bangalore: Appointments
p. 1419

National Dairy Research Institute Southern Campus,Bangalore: Appointments
p. 1420

DBT, AIIMS, New Delhi: International Symposium and Continuing Medical Education
p. 1420

DBT, New Delhi: Call for Research proposals on Nanobiotechnology New Delhi
p. 1422