In this issue
p. 0723

Anguish of a medico
p. 0725 | Kartha, C. C.

Dwindling of groundwater resources - whose folly?
p. 0727 | Chandra, K. C. Subhash

Disallow caste discrimination in biological and social contexts
p. 0727 | Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy

'Terminator ... ' back again?
p. 0728 | Nair, Ashalatha S.

Need for self-assessment of educational institutions
p. 0728 | Radhakrishnan, V.

Can Habur Limestone curdle milk?
p. 0729 | Ranawat, P. S.

Malaria millennium development goals, treatment costs and generics
p. 0730 | Gupta, Revant R.; Gupta, Rajeev

Why did the 28 March 2005 Sumatra earthquake of Mw 8. 7 generate only a minor tsunami?
p. 0731 | Rastogi, B. K.

National Knowledge Commission constituted
p. 0733

Medals for Indian students at Biology Olympiad
p. 0733

A new initiative on genetics at Banaras Hindu University
p. 0733 | De, Minakshi

National Water Convention
p. 0734 | Madhyastha, M. N.

A new class of gels
p. 0736 | De, Minakshi

Wilderness woes - Tribals vs tigers: Pros and cons
p. 0737 | Homji, V. M. Meher

Wilderness woes - Tribals vs tigers: Pros and cons
p. 0737 | Homji, V. M. Meher

Years of life lost and productivity loss due to tsunami in India
p. 0739 | Krishnamoorthy, K.; Harichandrakumar, K. T.; Kumari, A. Krishna; Das, P. K.

Years of life lost and productivity loss due to tsunami in India
p. 0739 | Krishnamoorthy, K.; Harichandrakumar, K. T.; Kumari, A. Krishna; Das, P. K.

Iron meteorite fall at Bhuka village, Barmer district, Rajasthan
p. 0741 | Shrivastava, K. L.; Gaur, V.; Swadia, J.; Bhandari, N.; Shukla, A. D.

Iron pyrites for reducing ammonia volatilization losses from fertilizer urea applied to a sandy clay loam soil
p. 0742 | Shivay, Y. S.; Kumar, Dinesh; Prasad, Rajendra

Vertebrate circadian clock research: Do experiments on birds and lower vertebrates promise better insights?
p. 0743 | Kumar, Vinod

An earthquake of M ~ 5 may occur at Koyna
p. 0747 | Gupta, Harsh; Mandal, Prantik; Satyanarayana, H. V. S.; Shashidhar, D.; Sairam, B.; Shekar, M.; Singh, Arun; Uma Devi, E.; Kousalya, M.; Purnachandra Rao, N.; Dimri, V. P.

Links between embryology and evolutionary floral morphology
p. 0749 | Endress, Peter K.

The Ganga at Varanasi and a travail to stop her abuse
p. 0755 | Mishra, Veer Bhadra

Degeneration and death of neurons in adult neurodegenerative diseases
p. 0764 | Sarkar, Pranab Kumar

Water quality in the Central Himalaya
p. 0774 | Sharma, Subodh; Bajracharya, Roshan M.; Sitaula, Bishal K.; Merz, Juerg

Water: Science and society
p. 0787 | Narasimhan, T. N.

Water resources of India
p. 0794 | Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D.; Sharma, K. D.

Groundwater ethics for its sustainability
p. 0812 | Datta, P. S.

Climate and water resources of India
p. 0818 | Ramesh, R.; Yadava, M. G.

Groundwater isotopic investigations in India: What has been learned?
p. 0825 | Gupta, S. K.; Deshpande, R. D.

Why do Gangetic rivers aggrade or degrade?
p. 0836 | Sinha, Rajiv

Chemical weathering in the river basins of the Himalaya, India
p. 0841 | Krishnaswami, S.; Singh, Sunil K.

Biological management of water on land
p. 0850 | Rajamani, V.

The discovery of PSR J1833-1034: the pulsar associated with the supernova remnant G21. 5-0. 9
p. 0853 | Gupta, Y.; Mitra, D.; Green, D. A.; Acharyya, A.

First observations of extremely small dispersion whistlers from Bhopal (L ~ 0. 96), a low-latitude station
p. 0857 | Singh, Sunil K.; Lalmani; Saini, Shailendra; Gwal, A. K.

Need of a disaster alert system for India through a network of real-time monitoring of sea-level and other meteorological events
p. 0864 | Joseph, Antony; Prabhudesai, R. G.

Molecular evidence for occurrence of Tuberose mild mottle virus infecting tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) in India
p. 0870 | Kulshrestha, Saurabh; Mehra, Arpna; Hallan, Vipin; Raikhy, Gaurav; Ram, Raja; Zaidi, A. A.

Phytodiversity and growth form in relation to altitudinal gradient in the Central Himalayan (Kumaun) region of India
p. 0873 | Kharkwal, Geeta; Mehrotra, Poonam; Rawat, Y. S.; Pangtey, Y. P. S.

Greater sensitivity of Hordeum himalayens Schult. to increasing temperature causes reduction in its cultivated area
p. 0879 | Joshi, S. C.; Palni, L. M. S.

A computer-based identification of variable number tandem repeats in White spot syndrome virus genomes
p. 0882 | Shekar, Malathi; Karunasagar, Indrani; Karunasagar, I.

Assessing the role of FecB mutation in productivity of Indian sheep
p. 0887 | Pardeshi, V. C.; Sainani, M. N.; Maddox, J. F.; Ghalsasi, P. M.; Nimbkar, C.; Gupta, V. S.

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Et Al(eds)
p. 0891 | Tandon, S. K.

Science in Archaeology and Archaeo-materials by Anun Kumar Biswas (ed. )
p. 0892 | Rao, P. Ramakoteswara

Disaster Management by Harsh K. Gupta (ed. )
p. 0893 | Sharma, Vinod

Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhatt (1909-2005)
p. 0895 | Shastry, Sriram

All India Institute of Medical Sciences
p. 0896

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
p. 0897

National Botanical Research Institute
p. 0898

Banaras Hindu University
p. 0899

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME ON PLASMA, HIGH ENERGY, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
p. 0900

XX Congress of the International Sericultural Commission
p. 0901

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS
p. 0902

CSIR DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, TECHNO­LOGY AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (NISTADS), NEW DELHI
p. 0903

Physical Research Laboratory
p. 0904

National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health
p. 0904

Department of Chemistry
p. 0905

Geo-Analytical Data Facilities on 'Payment' at WIHG, DEHRA DUN
p. 0905

Government of India INDO-GERMAN PROJECT-BASED PERSONNEL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME: DST-DAAD PPP - 2006
p. 0906

Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy
p. 0906

Bright career opportunities in R&D of medicinal and aromatic plants at CIMAP
p. 0907

Department of Biochemistry: Announcements
p. 0908