In this issue
p. 0420

Institutional E-print Archives: Liberalizing Access to Scientific Research
p. 0421 | Joshi, N. V.

Plagiarism
p. 0423 | Tauro, P.

Research in science and engineering: Malady and remedy
p. 0423 | Tiwari, Suresh Chandra

Science funding in India
p. 0424 | Roy, Rustum

Shallow water reservoirs and vegetation
p. 0424 | Kingston, S. David; Ramadhas, V.

An idea for Indian education
p. 0425 | Herndon, J. Marvin

Ethics in science
p. 0426 | Ramanathan, S.

Reinventing Indian universities
p. 0426 | Gupta, D. P.

University system
p. 0426 | Sarma, V. Venkateswara

GM rice and China
p. 0426 | Padmanaban, G.

Kabi sacred grove of North Sikkim
p. 0427 | Dash, S. S.

Transforming 'traditional anecdotes' to 'evidence-based medicine' and its relation to diabetes
p. 0428 | Balasubramanyam, M.

Two Indian journals cross impact factor 1. 00 in 2004
p. 0429 | Jain, N. C.

New portal for scholarships, etc.
p. 0430

Mid-year meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences
p. 0430 | Walawalkar, Mrinalini G.

The fluid earth
p. 0433 | Gaur, Vinod K.

Channel flow, ductile extrusion and exhumation of lower-mid crust in continental collision zones
p. 0435 | Mukherjee, Soumyajit

Unearthing the origin of the vanishing tribes
p. 0437 | Bhattacharya, Dyuti

Galactic encoun­ters and ice ages in the earth's history
p. 0439 | Sankaran, A. V.

From the archives
p. 0441

Inheritance of resistance to Bacillus sphaericus toxins in a laboratory selected strain of Anopheles stephensi (Diptera Culicidae) and its response to Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis
p. 0442 | Mittal, P. K.; Adak, T.; Subbarao, S. K.

Oryza rufipogon: A possible source of novel resistance specificities against rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea)
p. 0443 | Rathour, R.; Gaur, V. S.; Kaushik, R. P.; Chauhan, R. S.

Rapidly in vitro multiplied Drosera as reliable source for plumbagin bioprospection
p. 0447 | Jayaram, K.; Prasad, M. N. V.

What caused the great Sumatran earthquakes of 26 December 2004 and 28 March 2005?
p. 0449 | Rao, N. Purnachandra; Chary, A. Hanmantha

28 March 2005 Sumatra earthquake: expected, triggered or aftershock?
p. 0452 | Gahalaut, Vineet K.; ., Kalpna

Borneo's proboscis monkey - a study of its diet of mineral and phytochemical concentrations
p. 0454 | Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy; Hsu, Minna J.

Healthcare biotechnology firms in India: Evolution, structure and growth
p. 0458 | Arora, Parveen

The science, politics and economics of global climate change: Implications for the carbon sink projects
p. 0464 | Jacob, James

Studies on equatorial waves over the Indian zone
p. 0475 | Sasi, M. N.; Ramkumar, Geetha; Murthy, B. V. Krishna

Current status, strategy and future prospects of microbial resource collections
p. 0488 | Arora, Dilip K.; Saikia, Ratul; Dwievdi, Ram; Smith, David

Functional genomics of drought stress response in rice: Transcript mapping of annotated unigenes of an indica rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Nagina 22)
p. 0496 | Gorantla, Markandeya; Babu, P. R.; Lachagari, V. B. Reddy; Feltus, F. Alex; Paterson, Andrew H.; Reddy, Arjula R.

Cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts of India
p. 0515 | Tirkey, J.; Adhikary, S. P.

Remobilization of the palaeoconvergent corridors hidden under the Deccan trap cover and some major stable continental region earthquakes
p. 0522 | Veeraswamy, K.; Raval, U.

Synthesis of novel oxazolidinone derivatives for antibacterial investigation
p. 0531 | Cui, Y.; Dang, Y.; Yang, Y.; Ji, R.

Evaluating the association between type-2 diabetes and polymorphisms at +1127 INS-PstI and +3580 IGF-II-MspI locus
p. 0535 | Bagadi, Sarita; Nagpal, Jatin K.; Khadapkar, Rashmi; Das, Bibhu R.

Molecular characterization of a Pao-like long terminal repeat retrotransposon, Tamy in saturniid silkworm Antheraea mylitta
p. 0539 | Ghosh, Ananta K.; Datta, Abhik; Mahendran, B.; Kundu, S. C.

Selection of 5-methyltryptophan-resistant callus lines with improved metabolic flux towards terpenoid indole alkaloid synthesis in Catharanthus roseus
p. 0544 | Seth, Rupali; Mathur, Ajay Kumar

Species diversity contributes to productivity - Evidence from natural grassland communities of the Himalaya
p. 0548 | Singh, Surendra Pratap; Sah, Pankaj; Tyagi, Vidit; Jina, Bhupendra Singh

Dissolved inorganic carbon isotopic compositions in the Upstream Ganga river in the Himalayas
p. 0553 | Chakrapani, G. J.; Veizer, Jan

Detection of submerged reef banks in the Lakshadweep Sea using IRS-P4 OCM satellite data
p. 0557 | Chauhan, Prakash; Nayak, Shailesh

Population density, microhabitat use and activity pattern of the Indian rock lizard, Psammophilus dorsalis (Agamidae)
p. 0560 | Radder, Rajkumar S.; Saidapur, Srinivas K.; Shanbhag, Bhagyashri A.

Aquaculture Medicine, Bright Singh, I. S. Et Al(eds)
p. 0567 | Pandian, T. J.

Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton
p. 0567 | Krishna, Y. Chaitanya; Sinha, Anindya

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1923-2005)
p. 0569 | Dadhich, Naresh

Usha Ranjan Ghatak (1931-2005) (570)
p. 0570 | Ranu, Brindaban C.

Government of India NATIONAL BIOSCIENCE AWARD FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT: 2005-06
p. 0571

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
p. 0574

REFRESHER COURSE ON PHYSICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
p. 0575

IBAB - Announcing Admissions
p. 0576

Planetary Sciences and Exploration Programme (PLANEX)
p. 0577

4th SERC School in Chronobiology
p. 0577

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
p. 0578

TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
p. 0578

Indian National Science Academy DEPUTATION OF INDIAN SCIENTISTS ABROAD UNDER BILATERAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME 2006-200
p. 0579

Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics School of Biotechnology
p. 0580

Indian National Science Academy INSA-JSPS JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT PRORGRAMME - 2006
p. 0581

Laboratoire de Genetique et Physiologie du Développment UMR-C6545-CNRS
p. 0581

Madurai Kamaraj University
p. 0582

Sri Kaliswari College, Sivakasi Announcements
p. 0582