In this Issue
p. 0430

Scientometrics: A Dismal Science
p. 0431 | Balaram, P.

Water woes
p. 0433 | Biyani, A. K.

Do scientists also need money?
p. 0433 | Chaturvedi, U. C.

How technology advances and man decays
p. 0434 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

Possibility of auto-inoculation of blood for tick control in cattle
p. 0435 | Muraleedharan, K.; Sahadev, A.; Gopinathan, N.

US Patents granted to Indian pharmaceutical companies
p. 0435 | Janodia, Manthan D.; Sreedhar, D.; Ligade, Virendra S.; Udupa, N.

Volcanic ash beds
p. 0437 | Siddaiah, N. Siva; Kumar, Kishor

Volcanic ash beds(Response)
p. 0437 | Acharyya, Subhrangsu Kanta

A simple and economical device to save water in water distillation systems in laboratories
p. 0438 | Munnalal; Tiwari, Sitaram; Rajesh; Singh, Amarnath; Singh, Jagat Narayan; Arya, Richa; Akanksha; Lakhotia, S. C.

Chlorophytum nepalense (Lindl. ) Baker - An unexplored plant of potential economic value?
p. 0439 | Basu, Sautrik; Jha, Timir Baran

Infectious diseases and biomedical waste disposal
p. 0440 | Sheth, Parul R.

Rice planthoppers strike back
p. 0441 | Bentur, J. S.; Viraktamath, B. C.

Prof. Y. T. Thathachari Research Award for Science 2007
p. 0443

Astronomical sites
p. 0443

Order in groups
p. 0444

Need for comprehensive, rapid exploration for atomic minerals and value-added exploration-mining-processing of heavy mineral sands in India
p. 0446 | Raju, R. Dhana

Mediocrity in Indian science: Algorithm for a turnaround
p. 0448 | Sharma, Om P.

Bt resistance and monophagous pests: Handling with prudence
p. 0449 | Hanur, Vageeshbabu S.

Recovering flanking sequence tags of a miniature inverted-repeat transposable element by thermal asymmetric interlaced-PCR in peanut
p. 0452 | Bhat, R. S.; Patil, V. U.; Chandrashekar, T. M.; Sujay, V.; Gowda, M. V. C.; Kuruvinashetti, M. S.

Karyomorphology of Incarvillea emodi and its phylogenetic position in the genus
p. 0454 | Singh, S.; Dhyani, D.; Karthigeyan, S.; Rajkumar, S.

Guttation: A potential yield enhancing trait in rice
p. 0455 | Singh, Sanjay; Chauhan, J. S.; Singh, T. N.

Crop protection stewardship in India: Wanted or unwanted
p. 0457 | Shetty, P. K.; Murugan, M; Sreeja, K. G.

Submicroscopic structural variations: A de novo tool for molecular anthropogenetics
p. 0465 | Gupta, Vipin; Khadgawat, Rajesh; Saraswathy, K. N.; Sachdeva, M. P.

Infrared-optical double resonance spectroscopy: A selective and sensitive tool to investigate structures of molecular clusters in the gas phase
p. 0469 | Singh, Prashant Chandra; Patwari, G. Naresh

Soil carbon storage capacity as a tool to prioritize areas for carbon sequestration
p. 0482 | Bhattacharyya, T.; Pal, D. K.; Chandran, P.; Ray, S. K.; Mandal, C.; Telpande, B. A.

Assimilation of sub-surface temperature profiles from Argo floats in the Indian Ocean in an Ocean General Circulation Model
p. 0495 | Agarwal, Neeraj; Sharma, Rashmi; Basu, Sujit; Agarwal, Vijay K.

Attenuating the seismic interference noise on three-dimensional seismic data by frequency-receiver-shot ( f-x-y) prediction filters
p. 0501 | Rajput, Sanjeev; Thakur, N. K.; Rao, P. Prasada; Joshi, Anand

How vulnerable is Indian coast to oil spills? Impact of MV Ocean Seraya oil spill
p. 0504 | Sivadas, S.; Gregory, A.; Ingole, B.

Salmonella Typhimurium invasion induces apoptosis in chicken embryo fibroblast
p. 0512 | Jagadish, B. H.; Saxena, M. K.

Palaeoecological and palaeoclimate potential of subsurface palynological data from the Late Quaternary sediments of South Kerala Sedimentary Basin, southwest India
p. 0515 | Kumaran, K. P. N.; Limaye, R. B.; Nair, K. M.; Padmalal, D.

Stannoidite and cubanite from Askot polymetallic sulphide ores, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, India
p. 0527 | Sharma, Rajesh; Rao, D. Rameshwar

The Story of Physics script by T. Padmanabhan
p. 0532 | Keshavamurthy, Srihari

Superconductivity by L. Kakani and Shubhra Kakani
p. 0533 | Sharma, Hari Prasad

Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology: A Knowledge Compendium by V. V. N. Kishore (ed. )
p. 0534 | Gupta, C. L.

Bal Krishan Anand (1917-2007)
p. 0536 | Kumar, V. Mohan

H. P. Gandhi (1920-2008)
p. 0537 | Karthick, B.

COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (CSIR)
p. 0539

Department of Biotechnology
p. 0542

Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund
p. 0543

INDO-SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION
p. 0544

ICTPI
p. 0545

Physical Research Laboratory - CALL FOR PROPOSALS IN PLANETARY SCIENCES
p. 0546

Physical Research Laboratory - Ninth Workshop on ‘Remote Sensing of Inner Solar System Objects’
p. 0547

SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY
p. 0548

Springer
p. 0549

Saflabs
p. 0550

Spatial Quantification of Ecosystem Functions in Western Ghats
p. 0551

TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS FOR ELDERLY (TIE)
p. 0552

Dr D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
p. 0552

Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
p. 0553

INSA MEDAL FOR YOUNG SCIENTIST - 2009
p. 0553

SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY
p. 0554

L. V. PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE, HYDERABAD
p. 0554

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM
p. 0555

THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
p. 0555