In this issue
p. 1346

The Shanghai Rankings
p. 1347 | Balaram, P.

The concept of atman
p. 1349 | Rao, K. Vasudeva

Milk production in India
p. 1349 | Shivagaje, Ashok; Kasture, Madhukar; Pandharikar, Nanda; Mathankar, Mayura

Health of Indian science
p. 1349 | Virk, H. S.

Geoscience curriculum
p. 1350 | Joshi, Vishwas B.

Palk Strait: Repairing Adam's Bridge with gypsum?
p. 1351 | Schuiling, R. D.

Variety in DNA secondary structure
p. 1352 | Gautham, N.

Variety in DNA secondary structure(Reply)
p. 1352 | Delmonte, C. S.; Mann, L. R. B.

2004: Year of Scientific Awareness
p. 1354 | Sahoo, Narottam

Focus on earth science
p. 1355 | Mukherjee, Soumyajit

Condensation of bound pairs of fermionic atoms
p. 1356 | Srinivasan, R.; Narayanan, Andal

Genetic privacy: Resolving the conflict between the donor and the child
p. 1363 | Basu, Saionton

High-temperature electrical and thermal properties of Burdett, Dalhart, Faucet and Wellman ordinary chondrites
p. 1366 | Parthasarathy, G.; Sharma, S. R.

A novel (8p + 8p) cycloaddition of benzocondensed iminoketenes
p. 1368 | Jacob, E. Dominic; Mathew, Lopez

Release of berberine and its crystallization in liquid medium of cell suspension cultures of Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn. ) Colebr
p. 1369 | Narasimhan, S.; Nair, G. M.

Orchid diversity of Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve
p. 1372 | Gupta, Stutee; Porwal, M. C.; Roy, P. S.

Breeding behaviour and parental care of the induced bred spotted murrel Channa punctatus under captivity
p. 1375 | Haniffa, M. A.; Marimuthu, K.; Nagarajan, M.; Arokiaraj, A. Jesu; Kumar, D.

Mobile workshops for students - A novel programme for graduate medical education
p. 1377 | Deo, M. G.; Gangal, Sudha G.; Kher, Archana; Muranjan, Mamta

Direct and indirect radiative effects of sea-salt aerosols over Arabian Sea
p. 1381 | Vinoj, V.; Satheesh, S. K.

Evaluation of sambar and muntjak habitats using geostatistical modelling
p. 1390 | Kushwaha, S. P. S.; Khan, A.; Habib, B.; Quadri, A.; Singh, A.

Lack of solid tumour protection by Ocimum extract and its flavonoids orientin and vicenin
p. 1401 | Devi, P. Uma; Nayak, V.; Kamath, R.

On the decreasing frequency of monsoon depressions over the Indian region
p. 1404 | Dash, S. K.; Kumar, Jenamani Rajendra; Shekhar, M. S.

Genetic diversity of black gram (Vigna mungo) landraces as evaluated by amplified fragment length polymorphism markers
p. 1411 | Sivaprakash, K. R.; Prashanth, S. R.; Mohanty, B. P.; Parida, Ajay

Explosive pollen release, wind-pollination and mixed mating in the tropical tree Shorea robusta Gaertn. f. (Dipterocarpaceae)
p. 1416 | Atluri, J. B.; Ramana, S. P. Venkata; Reddi, C. Subba

Canopy arthropods of Vateria indica L. and Dipterocarpus indicus Bedd. in the rainforests of Western Ghats, South India
p. 1420 | Srinivasa, Y. B.; Kumar, A. N. Arun; Prathapan, K. D.

Sampling and preservation artifacts in arsenic analysis: Implications for public health issues in developing countries
p. 1426 | Pandey, Piyush Kant; Yadav, Sushama; Nair, Sumita; Pandey, Madhurima

Using an optical trap to fold and align single red blood cells
p. 1432 | Dharmadhikari, J. A.; Mathur, D.

A combined approach of Schlumberger and axial pole-dipole configurations for groundwater exploration in hard-rock areas
p. 1437 | Chandra, S.; Rao, V. Anand; Singh, V. S.

Estimates of plate velocity and crustal deformation in the Indian subcontinent using GPS geodesy
p. 1443 | Jade, Sridevi

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
p. 1449 | Rajendran, C. P.

Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Agentive Behaviour by R. Narasimhan
p. 1450 | Bhalla, Upinder S.

Eight Preposterous Propositions by Robert Ehrlich
p. 1451 | Ghosh, Amit

Bhaskar Maiya
p. 1452 | Chandrashekar, T. K.

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)
p. 1453

TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH - ASTROSAT Junior Research Fellows
p. 1455

Bright career opportunities in R&D of medicinal and aromatic plants at CIMAP
p. 1456

BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY
p. 1457

ANNA UNIVERSITY
p. 1458

ADMISSION TO M. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph. D. PROGRAMME IN MARINE BIOLOGY
p. 1458

Department of Atomic Energy
p. 1459