In this issue
p. 0845

Drug discovery: Myth and reality
p. 0847 | Balaram, P.

Palk Bay: A future industrial complex site?
p. 0849 | Cathcart, Richard Brook

Appropriate sampling design in palaeobotany for correlating floristics with stratigraphy
p. 0850 | Srivastava, A. K.

Is there anything like 'Indian Science'?
p. 0851 | Sahni, Ashok

Ramaseshan Fellowships
p. 0852 | Agnab, Erol

New Head for DRDO
p. 0852 | Moza, Monika Koul

Luring women back to science -- DST's Women Scientists Scheme
p. 0852 | Moza, Monika Koul

Gas flow over solid surfaces generates electric current
p. 0854 | Bhattacharya, Papiya

Genetic transformation of human cells by a soil phytopathogen presents common molecular strategies
p. 0856 | Hannur, Vageeshbabu S.

HIV/AIDS in the developing world
p. 0857 | Krishnan, V.

Pulse yields: Feeling the pulse
p. 0859 | Brahmaprakash, G. P.; Chandraprakash, J.; Ganeshaiah, K. N.; Shaanker, R. Uma

From the archives
p. 0862

A seismogenic active fault in the western Himalaya
p. 0863 | Joshi, D. D.

Fossil chromosomes in an extinct Gondwanan seed plant (Pentoxylon)
p. 0865 | Bonde, S. D.; Varghese, P.; Kumaran, K. P. N.; Shindikar, M. R.; Gamre, P. G.

Record of new petrified epiphyllous fungi (Polyhyphaethyrites) from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaon Kalan, Madhya Pradesh, India
p. 0866 | Srivastava, Rashmi; Kar, R. K.

First record of euendolithic biota from the basal part of Tal Group in Himachal Lesser Himalaya, India
p. 0868 | Shukla, Manoj; Babu, Rupendra; Mathur, V. K.; Srivastava, D. K.

Diverse genetic bases of Indian polyembryonic and monoembryonic mango (Mangifera indica L) cultivars
p. 0870 | Ravishankar, K. V.; Chandrashekara, P.; Sreedhara, S. A.; Dinesh, M. R.; Anand, Lalitha; Saiprasad, G. V. S.

Stylar movement avoids self-pollination and promotes cross-pollination in Eremurus himalaicus
p. 0872 | Verma, Susheel; Magotra, Rani; Koul, A. K.

The role of alliance in modern biotech industries in developing countries
p. 0874 | Ghosh, Prasanta K.

Sophistication in distributed denial-of-service attacks on the Internet
p. 0885 | Kumar, V. Anil

Science and technology for rural India
p. 0889 | Reddy, Amulya K. N.

Sustainable building technologies
p. 0899 | Reddy, B. V. Venkatarama

Biomass gasification technology -- a route to meet energy needs
p. 0908 | Dasappa, S.; Paul, P. J.; Mukunda, H. S.; Rajan, N. K. S.; Sridhar, G.; Sridhar, H. V.

Evolving biomass-based biogas plants: The ASTRA experience
p. 0917 | Chanakya, H. N.; Rajabapaiah, P.; Modak, J. M.

The development and dissemination of efficient domestic cook stoves and other devices in Karnataka
p. 0926 | Jagadish, K. S.

Sustainable biomass power for rural India: Case study of biomass gasifier for village electrification
p. 0932 | Ravindranath, N. H.; Somashekar, H. I.; Dasappa, S.; Reddy, C. N. Jayasheela

Water quality in sustainable water management
p. 0942 | Rao, Sudhakar M.; Mamatha, P.

GIS-based technologies for watershed management
p. 0948 | Gosain, A. K.; Rao, Sandhya

Strategies for rural poverty alleviation in India: A perspective based on remote sensing and GIS-based nationwide wasteland mapping
p. 0954 | Srivastava, S. K.; Dutt, C. B. S.; Nagaraja, R.; Bandyopadhyay, S.; Rani, H. C. Meena; Hegde, V. S.; Jayaraman, V.

Information and communication technologies and poverty alleviation
p. 0960 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

Alternative approaches to delivery of medical technology for rural health
p. 0967 | Antia, Noshir H.

Sorbates in carbon nanotubes: Transition from diffusive to superdiffusive motion
p. 0971 | Bhide, Shreyas Y.; Ghosh, Debashree; Yashonath, S.; Ananthakrishna, G.

Oxyboron complexes of C60-fullerene: a new direction in fullerene chemistry
p. 0975 | Debnath, Radhaballabh; Sahoo, Rampada

Pyrolysis of rice husk
p. 0981 | Bharadwaj, Anshu; Wang, Y.; Sridhar, S.; Arunachalam, V. S.

Accumulation of the periplasmic protein alkaline phosphatase in cell cytosol induces heat shock response in E. coli
p. 0986 | Chaudhuri, Sujan; Jana, Bimal; Sarkar, Suchitra; Basu, Tarakdas

On the recurrence of Noctiluca scintillans bloom in Minnie Bay, Port Blair: Impact on water quality and bioactivity of extracts
p. 0990 | Dharani, G.; Nazar, A. K. Abdul; Kanagu, L.; Venkateshwaran, P.; Kumar, T. S.; Ratnam, Krupa; Venkatesan, R.; Ravindran, M.

Quartz C-axes and metastable phases in the metamorphic rocks of Almora Nappe: Evidence of Pre-Himalayan signatures
p. 0995 | Joshi, Mallickarjun; Tiwari, A. N.

Origin of oceanic plagiogranite in the Nidar ophiolitic sequence of eastern Ladakh, India
p. 0999 | Rao, D. Rameshwar; Rai, Hakim; Kumar, J. Senthil

Predatory bugs of Zygogramma bicolorata Pallister: An exotic beetle for biological suppression of Parthenium hysterophorus L.
p. 1005 | Gupta, R. K.; Khan, M. S.; Bali, Kamlesh; Monobrullah, Md.; Bhagat, R. M.

Hysteresis Machines by N. D. Sharma and R. E. Bedford
p. 1011 | Gupta, D. P. Sen

Regional Groundwater Modeling M Thangarajan
p. 1011 | Sridhara, K.

V. M. Thakor
p. 1012 | Shah, Anamik

Four hundredth anniversary of Kepler's supernova
p. 1013 | Vishwanath, P. R.

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
p. 1016

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1017

SCOTT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
p. 1018

SHRI AMM MURUGAPPA CHETTIAR RESEARCH CENTRE
p. 1018

Nagaland University
p. 1019

NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE
p. 1019