In this issue
p. 0528

Reinventing our universities
p. 0529 | Balaram, P.

Corruption in science and science organization
p. 0531 | Rani, Kumkum

Respect is earned not commanded
p. 0531 | Kar, R. K.; Kar, Ratan

Cataloguing Indian biota
p. 0532 | Chandra, K.

Cataloguing Indian biota(Response)
p. 0532 | Chavan, Vishwas; Watve, A. V.; Rane, N. S.; Krishnan, S.

Rice-wheat cropping system
p. 0533 | Bagyaraj, D. J.

Nano-energy
p. 0533 | Chopra, K. L.

Mass mortality of livestock in the high altitude areas of western Himalaya
p. 0534 | Uniyal, Sanjay Kr.; Lal, Brij; Kumar, Amit

Status of the loggerhead turtle in India
p. 0535 | Tripathy, Basudev

Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
p. 0536 | Ramesh, R.

TWAS annual Prize Award 2004
p. 0538

AMS Rossby medal for Shukla
p. 0538

R. A. Mashelkar takes over as President of INSA
p. 0538

Invasive alien species and biodiversity in India
p. 0539 | Raghubanshi, A. S.; Rai, L. C.; Gaur, J. P.; Singh, J. S.

Dimensions of molecular entomology
p. 0541 | Ananthakrishnan, T. N.

Obesity and gut flora: Link revealed?
p. 0543 | Vaishampayan, Parag; Patole, Milind S.; Shouche, Yogesh S.

The science of the earth
p. 0545 | Rajamani, V.

The science of the earth, and earth science education in India
p. 0546 | Tandon, S. K.

From the archives
p. 0548

First beam acceleration with niobium-based superconducting linear accelerator at NSC
p. 0549 | Roy, A.

The September 2004 stench off the southern Malabar coast - A consequence of holococcolithophore bloom
p. 0551 | Ramaiah, N.; Paul, Jane. T.; Fernandes, Veronica; Raveendran, T.; Raveendran, O.; Sundari, D.; Revichandran, C.; Shenoy, D. M.; Mangesh, G.; Kurian, Siby; Gerson, V. J.; Shoji, D. T.; Madhu, N. V.; Kumar, S. Sree; Lokabharathi, P. A.; Shetye, S. R.

Fibonacci structure in conch shell
p. 0555 | Rath, Saroj Kumar; Naik, P. C.

Ductile shearing along the Great Boundary Fault: An example from the Berach river section, Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan
p. 0557 | Sahay, Amit; Srivastava, Deepak C.

Organic farming: Its relevance to the Indian context
p. 0561 | Ramesh, P.; Singh, Mohan; Rao, A. Subba

Factors controlling variations in river sediment loads
p. 0569 | Chakrapani, G. J.

Coulomb stress changes and aftershocks of recent Indian earthquakes
p. 0576 | Rajput, Shikha; Gahalaut, V. K.; Sahu, Vipul K.

Super-linear speed-up of a parallel multigrid Navier-Stokes solver on Flosolver
p. 0589 | Venkatesh, T. N.; Sarasamma, V. R.; Rajalakshmy, S.; Sahu, Kirti Chandra; Govindarajan, Rama

Characterization of an Indian isolate of Carnation mottle virus infecting carnations
p. 0594 | Singh, H. P.; Hallan, V.; Raikhy, G.; Kulshrestha, S.; Sharma, M. L.; Ram, R.; Garg, I. D.; Zaidi, A. A.

On the association between the Indian summer monsoon and the tropical cyclone activity over northwest Pacific
p. 0602 | Kumar, Vinay; Krishnan, R.

Binding of viologen pendant pyrrole with free and bound gold nanoparticles
p. 0613 | Kumar, V. Ganesh; Grace, A. Nirmala; Pandian, K.

Radionuclide and trace element contamination around Kolaghat Thermal Power Station, West Bengal - Environmental implications
p. 0617 | Mandal, A.; Sengupta, D.

Identification of elicitor-induced PR5 gene homologue in Piper colubrinum Link by suppression subtractive hybridization
p. 0624 | Dicto, J.; Manjula, S.

Identification of blast (Magnaporthe grisea) resistance genes in rice
p. 0628 | Padmavathi, G.; Ram, T.; Satyanarayana, K.; Mishra, B.

Evidence for a male-produced sex pheromone in sesame leaf webber, Antigastra catalaunalis Duponchel (Pyraustidae, Lepidoptera)
p. 0631 | Narayanan, U. Sankar; Nadarajan, L.

Nature of bank erosion along the Brahmaputra river channel, Assam, India
p. 0634 | Kotoky, P.; Bezbaruah, D.; Baruah, J.; Sarma, J. N.

Some common and contrasting features of earthquake dynamics in major tectonic zones of Himalayas using nonlinear forecasting approach
p. 0640 | Tiwari, R. K.; Lakshmi, S. Sri

Philosophy of Symmetry by Sundar Sarukkai
p. 0648 | Singh, Virendra

Homi J. Bhabha - Architect of Nuclear India by Dilip M. Salwi
p. 0648 | Rao, K. R.

Occurrence of xenotime in the Narasapur beach placers, West Godavari District, AP
p. 0650

Publications received
p. 0651

DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY (DAE) BOARD OF RESEARCH IN NUCLEAR SCIENCES (BRNS) DR. K. S. KRISHNAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP (KSKRA)
p. 0654

Government of India Call for Research Proposals on “Bioengineering”
p. 0657

BHRAMARA TRUST
p. 0659

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Jamsetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Food Security and Rural Prosperity
p. 0660

REFRESHER COURSE IN MATHEMATICS - CRYPTOLOGY
p. 0661

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Call for proposal under Instrumentation Development Programme (IDP)
p. 0662

REFRESHER COURSE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN BIOLOGY
p. 0663

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 0664

Department or Materials Science-Sardar Patel University
p. 0664

Indo-US Visiting Professorship Program
p. 0665

UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE
p. 0665

Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
p. 0666

PLANETARY SCIENCES AND EXPLORATION PROGRAMME PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, AHMEDABAD
p. 0666

MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY: Announcements
p. 0667