In this issue
p. 1108

Morris Travers: Remembering an Institution Builder
p. 1109 | Balaram, P.

Saving the natural springs in the mining hilly tracts of Joda-Badbil-Koira area of Orissa
p. 1111 | Naik, Prabir Kumar

Need for including more journals from India in SCI-Expanded
p. 1111 | Jain, N. C.

Taxonomic vandalism
p. 1112 | Khanna, Vinod

Charges of plagiarism
p. 1112 | Kundu, Gopal

Indian science slows down: China-India comparison
p. 1113 | Prathap, Gangan

Indian Science Congress - Time for reflection
p. 1113 | Tauro, P.; Rao, A. S.

Accountability of senior and superannuating scientists
p. 1114 | Paliwal, B. S.

Chugani Memorial Physics Award
p. 1115 | Sheth, Parul R.

Hyperspectral remote sensing
p. 1115 | Kumar, Avinash

Preserving our scientific heritage
p. 1116 | Birdie, Christina; Vagiswari, A.; Chowdhury, Indira

RNA interference (RNAi): A novel strategy in insect pest management
p. 1119 | Asokan, R.

Gender and conservation - Some issues
p. 1120 | Vencatesan, Jayshree

Science education and job training in India
p. 1123 | Prakash, Satya

Cryopreservation of subgroup Monthan (ABB) of Indian cooking banana (Musa spp. ) germplasm
p. 1125 | Agrawal, Anuradha; Tyagi, R. K.; Goswami, Rajni

Effect of different number of coatings on gloss and in controlling moisture entry into mango wood
p. 1128 | Gupta, Sachin; Sharma, Ambrish; Kumar, V. S. Kishan

Criteria for identification and assessment of agro-biodiversity heritage sites: Evolving sustainable agriculture
p. 1131 | Singh, Anurudh K.; Varaprasad, K. S.

Bioprospecting in Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand
p. 1139 | Gairola, Yogesh; Biswas, Sas

Variations in type of vegetal cover and heterogeneity of soil organic carbon in affecting sink capacity of tropical soils
p. 1144 | Dinakaran, J.; Krishnayya, N. S. R.

Cellular-based and Internet-enabled real-time reporting of the tsunami at Goa and Kavaratti Island due to Mw 8. 4 earthquake in Sumatra on 12 September 2007
p. 1151 | Prabhudesai, R. G.; Joseph, Antony; Mehra, Prakash; Agarvadekar, Yogesh; Tengali, Suryakant; Vijaykumar

The 8 October 2005 Muzaffarabad earthquake: Preliminary seismological investigations and probabilistic estimation of peak ground accelerations
p. 1158 | Monalisa; Khwaja, Azam A.; Jan, M. Qasim

Bioinvasion of Kappaphycus alvarezii on corals in the Gulf of Mannar, India
p. 1167 | Chandrasekaran, S.; Nagendran, N. Arun; Pandiaraja, D.; Krishnankutty, N.; Kamalakannan, B.

Call repertoire of an endemic avian species, the Indian chat Cercomela fusca
p. 1173 | Sethi, Vinaya Kumar; Bhatt, Dinesh

Studies on radon in soil, its concentration in the atmosphere and gamma exposure rate around Mysore city, India
p. 1180 | Shashikumar, T. S.; Ragini, N.; Chandrashekara, M. S.; Paramesh, L.

Identifying biomass burned patches of agriculture residue using satellite remote sensing data
p. 1185 | Punia, Milap; Nautiyal, Vinod Prasad; Kant, Yogesh

Evaluation of hypoglycaemic and antidiabetic effect of Melia dubia CAV fruits in mice
p. 1191 | Susheela, T.; Balaravi, Padma; Theophilus, Jane; Reddy, T. Narender; Reddy, P. U. M.

Biochemical changes in neutrophils of cervical cancer patients treated with 60Co
p. 1195 | Jeganathan, C.; Chauniyal, Devi Datt; Petkar, D. V.; Krishnamurthy, Vijayalakshmi; Gunalan, Gayathri; Haridas, Sumathy; Thangamani, Vanitha

Patenting of Nanotech Inventions: A Debate by C. Sri Krishna (ed.
p. 1200 | Mathew, Mary

The Indian Continental Crust and Upper Mantle: In honour of T. M. Mahadevan, C. Leelanandam Et Al(eds)
p. 1202 | Sankaran, A. V.

Annual Review of Genetics, 2007 by A. Campbell, Johnson, W. W. Anderson and E. W. Jones (eds)
p. 1204 | Singh, Jagmohan

P. K. Sethi (1927-2008)
p. 1206 | Bhargava, Rakesh

Jagannath Ganguly (1921-2007)
p. 1207 | Rao, Kalluri Subba; Sastry, P. S.

INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
p. 1209

THROMBOSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (TRI)
p. 1210

Ranbaxy Science Foundation
p. 1211

Wiley-Blackwell
p. 1212

13th International Human Genome Meeting
p. 1213

Department of Biotechnology CALL FOR PRE-PROPOSALS ON FORMULATION OF MICROBIAL CONSORTIA OF AGRICULTURALLY BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS
p. 1214

Department of Biotechnology Call for Proposals for DBT Centres of Excellence in Areas of Biotechnology
p. 1215

Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
p. 1216

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS
p. 1217

Hands-on Training-cum-Workshop: Application of Plant Biotechnology in Agriculture
p. 1217

University of Delhi South Campus
p. 1218

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Mohali
p. 1218

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1219

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)
p. 1219

Call for Junior Research Fellows
p. 1220

Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute
p. 1220

National Institute of Technology
p. 1221

INDO-US SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FORUM (IUSSTF) Second cover
p. 1221

SWB - Scholars without Borders
p. 1221