In this issue
p. 1544

Resilience and Imagination
p. 1545 | Balaram, P.

Bamboo and famine
p. 1547 | Panwar, Pankaj

Internet access at SKN College of Agriculture
p. 1547 | Krishna, K. M.

Carrying capacity of India: How far are we or already exceeded?
p. 1548 | Bhatia, C. R.

Possible transmission of Chikungunya virus through blood transfusion
p. 1548 | Kumar, C. V. M. Naresh; Gopal, D. V. R. Sai

Indian Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) on the verge of extinction
p. 1549 | Gad, Suman D.

Marine fish farming in India - Failed expectations?
p. 1550 | James, C. M.; Kitto, M. R.

Scarcity of water in India
p. 1551 | Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Singh, R. D.

Assessment of groundwater resources
p. 1551 | Nandakumaran, P.

Utilizable water resources
p. 1552

N. K. Garg and Q. Hassan reply
p. 1553

METALLO 2007
p. 1555 | Basu, Bikramjit; Balasubramaniam, R.; Upadhyaya, A.

Forest fires
p. 1558 | Ghosh, P.; Kimothi, M. M.

Kerala Science Congress
p. 1560 | Yesodharan, E. P.; Kokkal, Kamalakshan; Harinarayanan, P.

Water aid conference
p. 1561 | Bolla, Krishna

Nature's strongest glue: A potential alternative to commercial super glue
p. 1563 | Sur, Ujjal Kumar

Naïve perceptions about patents in India
p. 1565 | Bera, Rajendra K.

Potential and prospects of cellulosic ethanol in the world
p. 1567 | Louime, Clifford; Uckelmann, Hannah

Invasion and severe outbreak of the lotus lily midge Stenochironomus nelumbusTok et Kur (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Indian freshwater ecosystems
p. 1569 | Mathew, Deepu; Habeeburrahman, P. V.

Geotechnical characteristics of siliceous sediments from the Central Indian Basin
p. 1570 | Khadge, N. H.; Valsangkar, A. B.

Occurrence of sandstone-type uranium mineralization in the Umthongkut area, Mahadek Basin, West Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, India
p. 1573 | Srivastava, S. K.; Kothari, P. K.; Majumdar, Amit; Umamaheswar, K.

Bio-business in brief: The case of Cytokinetics Inc.
p. 1576 | Devaguptapu, Sailaja; Mehdiratta, Ritu; Saberwal, Gayatri

Magma underplating and storage in the crust-building process beneath the Kutch region, NW India
p. 1582 | Karmalkar, N. R.; Kale, M. G.; Duraiswami, R. A.; Jonalgadda, M.

Did human DRD2 haplotypes originate in India? A survey of haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium in the tribes of Eastern Ghats, South India
p. 1589 | Prabhakaran, K.; Ramesh, A.; Rani, M. V. Usha; Majumder, P. P.

Production of indole-3-acetic acid by immobilized actinomycete (Kitasatospora sp. ) for soil applications
p. 1595 | Hoffmann, Roald; Uma, S.; Shrivastava, S.; Dsouza, S. F.; Desai, P. D.

Mapping the potential distribution of Rhododendron arboreum Sm. ssp. nilagiricum (Zenker) Tagg (Ericaceae), an endemic plant using ecological niche modelling
p. 1605 | Girirajl, A.; Irfan-ullah, M.; Ramesh, B. R.; Karunakaran, P. V.; Jentschl, Anke; Murthy, M. S. R.

Geotechnical evaluation of Harmony landslide on Karnaprayag-Gwaldam Road, Uttarakhand Himalaya
p. 1613 | Anbalagan, R.; Kohli, Atul; Chakraborty, D.

Evaluation of curve number and geomorphology-based models for surface runoff prediction from ungauged watersheds
p. 1620 | Sarangi, A.; Singh, D. K.; Singh, A. K.

Microsatellite variability of coconut accessions (Cocos nucifera L. ) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands
p. 1627 | Rajesh, M. K.; Nagarajan, P.; Jerard, B. A.; Arunachalam, V.; Dhanapal, R.

Spatial influence on the important volatile oils of Piper nigrum leaves
p. 1632 | Parthasarathy, Utpala; Asish, G. R.; Zachariah, T. J.; Saji, K. V.; George, K. Johnson; Jayarajan, K.; Mathew, P. A.; Parthasarathy, V. A.

Implications of U-Pb zircon age of the Tirit granitoids on the closure of the Shyok suture zone, northern Ladakh, India
p. 1635 | Upadhyay, Rajeev

Morphotectonic evolution of the Binau-Ramganga-Naurar transverse valley, southern Kumaun Lesser Himalaya
p. 1640 | Goswami, Pradeep K.; Pant, Charu C.

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2008 Arthur K. Cho Et Al(eds)
p. 1646 | Subhedar, N. K.

Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2007, Kornberg Et Al(eds)
p. 1647 | Bhuyan, Abani K.

Systematics and Biodiversity Conservation by T. C. Narendran and M. Balakrishnan
p. 1648 | Raman, Anantanarayanan

Einstein, 'parachor' and molecular volume: Some history and a suggestion
p. 1650 | Balasubrahmanyam, S. N.

OPPORTUNITY FOR SCIENTISTS OF INDIAN ORIGIN RAMALINGASWAMI FELLOWSHIP
p. 1659

Department of Biotechnology CALL FOR LETTERS OF INTENT UNDER DBT: NRC-PBI, CANADA COLLABORATION IN PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1662

Central Institute for Arid Horticulture
p. 1663

UNESCO REGIONAL CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1664

IBM-IUSSTF
p. 1665

Indo-US Research Fellowships for Indian Researchers
p. 1666

Government of India Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development
p. 1667

Rubber Research Institute of India
p. 1667

National Institute of Science Education and Research
p. 1668

University of Delhi South Campus
p. 1668

CENTRE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL RESEARCH
p. 1669

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
p. 1669

BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY
p. 1670

SafLabs
p. 1672

Bangalore Genei
p. 1673

VISVA-BHARATI
p. 1674

INDIAN RUBBER MANUFACTURERS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
p. 1674

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
p. 1675

Indian Institute of Science
p. 1675

Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology
p. 1676

CENTRE FOR CO-OPERATION IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AMONG DEVELOPING SOCIETIES (CCSTDS), CHENNAI
p. 1676

S. N. BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES
p. 1677

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
p. 1677

Mangalore University Research Fellowships
p. 1678

DAE-BRNS HEP08 SYMPOSIUM
p. 1678

Author Index
p. 1679

Keyword Index
p. 1686