In this issue
p. 1302

Deemed Universities and other Universities
p. 1303 | Lakhotia, S. C.

Institutional learning and change for universities and national laboratories
p. 1305 | Sangar, Sunita

Merit must be promoted
p. 1305 | Dwivedi, Anil Kumar

Socially oriented medicine: teaching costs and outcomes
p. 1306 | Sitaramam, V.

Scope for formulating quality standards of food grade silver
p. 1307 | Das, Mukul; Khanna, S. K.

Life sciences research in India
p. 1307 | Virdi, J. S.

Need for legislative impediments to avoid mass harvesting of bryoflora
p. 1308 | Saxena, Anuj; Saxena, D. K.

Is Gulf of Mannar heading for marine bioinvasion?
p. 1309 | Pereira, Neelam; Verlecar, X. N.

Teira batfish, Platax teira (Forsskal, 1775) in Pudhumadam coastal waters, drifted due to the tsunami of 26 December 2004
p. 1310 | Marimuthu, N.; Wilson, J. Jerald; Kumaraguru, A. K.

Structure and tectonics of Kutch basin and earthquakes
p. 1312 | Roy, A. B.

Structure and tectonics of Kutch basin and earthquakes(Response)
p. 1312 | Biswas, S. K.

Advancing frontiers of molecular genetics: Where does India stand
p. 1314 | Jain, H. K.; Sharma, R. P.

Population genomic and bioinformatic studies reveal evolutionary history of Droso­phila ananassae
p. 1316 | Das, Aparup

A PCR-RFLP tool for differentiating Helicoverpa armigera and H. assulta (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
p. 1322 | Kranthi, S.; Kranthi, K. R.; Bharose, A. A.; Syed, S. N.

Regeneration of plants from root explant of two Indian cultivars of Brassica campestris L. through somatic embryogenesis
p. 1323 | Paul, Soma; Sikdar, S. R.

A new species of day gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis) from the Anaikatti Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India
p. 1326 | Mukherjee, Debanik; Bhupathy, S.; Nixon, A. M. A.

First record of an exceptionally diverse and well preserved amber-embedded biota from Lower Eocene (~ 52 Ma) lignites, Vastan, Gujarat
p. 1328 | Alimohammadian, Habib; Sahni, Ashok; Patnaik, Rajeev; Rana, Rajendar Singh; Singh, Hukam

Health traditions of Buddhist community and role of amchis in trans-Himalayan region of India
p. 1331 | Kala, Chandra Prakash

Science plan for coastal hazard preparedness
p. 1339 | Krishna, K. S.

Ethylene receptors and molecular mechanism of ethylene sensitivity in plants
p. 1348 | Arora, Ajay

Interfacing geographical information systems and pesticide models
p. 1362 | Sood, Chitra; Bhagat, R. M.

Use of anchored (AG)_n and (GA)_n primers to assess genetic diversity of Indian land­races and varieties of rice
p. 1371 | Sarla, N.; Neeraja, C. N.; Siddiq, E. A.

Triple burden on women in science: A cross-cultural analysis
p. 1382 | Gupta, Namrata; Kemelgor, Carol; Fuchs, Stefan; Etzkowitz, Henry

Salt stress effects on the accumulation of vacuolar H⁺-ATPase subunit c transcripts in wild rice, Porteresia coarctata (Roxb. ) Tateoka
p. 1386 | Senthilkumar, P.; Jithesh, M. N.; Parani, M.; Rajalakshmi, S.; Praseetha, K.; Parida, Ajay

Differential expression of tomato ACC oxidase gene family in relation to fruit ripening
p. 1394 | Anjanasree, K. N.; Verma, Praveen Kumar; Bansal, K. C.

Anomalous fluctuation of radon, gamma dose and helium emanating from a thermal spring prior to an earthquake
p. 1399 | Das, Nisith K.; Bhandari, Rakesh K.; Ghose, Debasis; Sen, Prasanta; Sinha, Bikash

Relocation of earthquakes in the Northeast Indian region using joint hypocentre determination method
p. 1404 | Bhattacharya, Pankaj Mala; Pujol, Jose; Majumdar, R. K.; Kayal, J. R.

Delineation and monitoring of aquaculture areas using multi-temporal space-borne multispectral data
p. 1414 | Dwivedi, R. S.; Kandrika, Sreenivas

Variations in terrigenous sediment discharge in a sediment core from southeastern Arabian Sea during the last 140 ka
p. 1421 | Pattan, J. N.; Masuzawa, Toshiyuki; Yamamoto, Mineko

The New Energy Economy by G. M. Pillai (ed. )
p. 1426 | Gupta, C. L.

Agri­cultural Sustainability: Strategies for Assessment by Gary W. van Loon, S. G. Patil and L. B. Hugar
p. 1426 | Abrol, I. P.

G. Rangaswami (1925-2005)
p. 1429 | Rao, N. S. Subba

BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY
p. 1430

JEST-2006
p. 1433

Inviting project proposals on scientific issues for enhancement of Coastal Hazard Preparedness
p. 1435

Call for proposal under Instrumentation Development Programme (IDP)
p. 1436

INDIA-JAPAN COOPERATIVE SCIENCE PROGRAMME (IJCSP)
p. 1437

CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES
p. 1438

UPASI TEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
p. 1439

DRS ANANT AND LATA LABHSETWAR CHARITABLE TRUST
p. 1439

UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
p. 1440

Department of Physics
p. 1440

Mizoram University
p. 1441

International symposium on Insect Genetics and Genomics
p. 1441

National Institute of Advanced Studies
p. 1442

JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
p. 1442