In this issue
p. 1352

Plagiarism: A Spreading Infection
p. 1353 | Balaram, P.

Mad rush for a career in computers: Symptom or disease?
p. 1355 | Unnikrishnan, M. K.

Science writing course at the college and university level
p. 1355 | Moza, Monika Koul

Millennium development goals and biodiversity
p. 1356 | Madhyastha, M. N.; Rekha, P. D.

Manipulating foreign hands
p. 1357 | Krishnapillai, M.; Khurd, Dadheru; Kalam, Dadheru

Tsunami deaths
p. 1358 | Banerjee, Amitava

Natural disasters
p. 1359 | Mitra, Sudip

Saraca asoka
p. 1359 | Hiremath, M. B.; Gopinath, Suchitra

Lymphatic filariasis eradication programme
p. 1359 | Khan, A. M.; Mahanta, J.

INSA examines Indian women's access to and retention in science
p. 1361 | Bamji, Mahtab S.

Serving farmers and saving farming
p. 1363 | Bhavani, R. V.

Science for school children
p. 1365 | Sahoo, Narottam

Aerosols, clouds and monsoon
p. 1366 | Singh, Ramesh P.; Tare, Vinod; Tripathi, S. N.

Herbal technology - Concepts and scope
p. 1369 | Daniel, M.

Microbial diversity: No limits?
p. 1370 | Shouche, Yogesh S.; Patole, Milind S.

A simple microanalytical technique for determination of podophyllotoxin in Podophyllum hexandrum roots by quantitative RP-HPLC and RP-HPTLC
p. 1372 | Mishra, Nidhi; Acharya, Ruchi; Gupta, Ajai P.; Singh, Bikram; Kaul, Vijay K.; Ahuja, P. S.

Is appendage deformity syndrome caused by Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus?
p. 1374 | Sahoo, P. K.; Tripathy, S.; Mishra, B. K.; Adhikari, S.; Das, B. K.; Nandi, S.; Babu, P. Hari; Sarangi, N.; Ayyappan, S.

Reproductive biology of Withania somnifera (L. ) Dunal
p. 1375 | Kaul, M. K.; Kumar, Arun; Sharma, Ajay

Floral device for obligate selfing by remote insect activity and anemochory in Wrightia tinctoria (Roxb. ) R. Br. (Apocynaceae)
p. 1378 | Raju, A. J. Solomon; Zafar, Rashda; Rao, S. Purnachandra

The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004 as perceived from the broadband seismograms of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Seismological Observatory
p. 1381 | Nath, S. K.; Bhattacharya, S. N.; Vyas, M.; Pal, I.; Sengupta, P.; Mitra, S.; Mohanty, W. K.; Ganguli, S. S.

Landscape changes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) due to Mw 9. 3 tsunamigenic Sumatra earthquake of 26 December 2004
p. 1384 | Malik, Javed N.; Murty, C. V. R.

Discovery of the Tibetan macaque Macaca thibetana in Arunachal Pradesh, India
p. 1387 | Kumar, R. Suresh; Mishra, Charudutt; Sinha, Anindya

Monsoon prediction - Why yet another failure?
p. 1389 | Gadgil, Sulochana; Rajeevan, M.; Nanjundiah, Ravi S.

Meeting the challenges of the 21st century - A scientist's view
p. 1401 | Lee, Yuan T.

Fungal biology in the 21st century
p. 1406 | Maheshwari, Ramesh

On the use of interconnected reinforcements to enhance the performance of monolithic aluminum
p. 1419 | Gupta, M.; Adi, L.; Ganesh, V. V.; Srivatsan, T. S.

Indigenous development of an aerodynamic size separator for aerosol size distribution studies
p. 1426 | Singh, Sanjay; Khan, Arshad; Das, Tanmoy; Sapra, B. K.; Mayya, Y. S.; Pushparaja

Modelling the structural response of an eukaryotic cell in the optical stretcher
p. 1434 | Ananthakrishnan, Revathi; Guck, Jochen; Wottawah, Falk; Schinkinger, Stefan; Lincoln, Bryan; Romeyke, Maren; Käs, Josef

Spatial analysis for identification and evaluation of forested corridors between two protected areas in Central India
p. 1441 | Ravan, Shirish; Dixit, A. M.; Mathur, V. B.

Effect of insecticides and inhibitors on P-glycoprotein ATPase (M-type) activity of resistant pest Helicoverpa armigera
p. 1449 | Srinivas, R.; Shamsundar, G. S.; Jayalakshmi, S. K.; Sreeramulu, K.

Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene Pinjor Formation (type locality), Siwalik Group, NW Himalaya, India
p. 1453 | Kumaravel, V.; Sangode, S. J.; Kumar, Rohtash; Siddaiah, N. Siva

Temporal expression patterns of period in cryb and vg mutants of Drosophila melanogaster
p. 1462 | Suthakar, G.; Subramanian, P.; Manivasagam, T.

Genetic diversity of Indian isolates of rice blast pathogen (Magnaporthe grisea) using molecular markers
p. 1466 | Chadha, Sonia; Gopalakrishna, T.

Brugia malayi infection: Correlation between chronicity of infection and lymphoid cell proliferation and DNA damage of host
p. 1469 | Khan, M. A.; Dixit, S.; Gaur, R. L.; Saxena, J. K.; Murthy, P. S. R.; Murthy, P. K.

Natural dye-yielding plants and indigenous knowledge on dye preparation in Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India
p. 1474 | Mahanta, Debajit; Tiwari, S. C.

Does the outreach programme make an impact? A case study of medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation in Uttaranchal
p. 1480 | Maikhuri, R. K.; Rao, K. S.; Kandari, L. S.; Joshi, R.; Dhyani, Deepak

Autochthonous deposition of Indian coal beds with palaeobotanical evidences of in situ plants from Saharjuri Basin, Jharkhand
p. 1487 | Banerjee, Manju

Inter-seismic geodetic motion and far-field coseismic surface displacements caused by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra earthquake observed from GPS data
p. 1491 | Banerjee, Paramesh

Amphibian diversity and distribution in Tamhini, northern Western Ghats, India
p. 1496 | Dahanukar, Neelesh; Padhye, Anand

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Vol. 42, Geoffrey Burbidge Et Al(eds)
p. 1502 | Dwivedi, B. N.

Multiscale Methods in Quantum Mecha­nics: Theory and Experiment by Philippe Blanchard and Gian Dell'Antonio (eds)
p. 1503 | Puri, R. R.

Panchanan Maheswari
p. 1505 | Subramanian, C. V.

BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY
p. 1506

Call for preliminary proposals for establishing low temperature and high magnetic field facilities (Phase II)
p. 1509

CSIR
p. 1510

Ranbaxy Research Awards 2004
p. 1511

Department of Biotechnology CALL FOR PROPOSALS IN MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1512

Arybhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)
p. 1513

Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute
p. 1514

Shree Hari Atmiya Center for Post-Graduate Studies
p. 1514

Systems Architects and ASIC Engineers
p. 1515

Posters
p. 1516

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1517

Department of Physics
p. 1517

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY - POSITION AVAILABLE
p. 1518

OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CELL
p. 1518

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
p. 1519