In this issue
p. 0004

Anniversaries at the Academies
p. 0005 | Balaram, P.

Making science-related jobs (less) attractive
p. 0007 | Dhawan, Sunil K.

Need for fixing priorities in higher education system
p. 0008 | Nagar, P. K.

Sharing biomedical journals in India
p. 0008 | Narahari, S. R.; Guruprasad Aggithaya, M.; Suraj, K. R.

Re-thinking on medical admission for science and healthcare
p. 0009 | Thomas, Shaju

Beneficial effects of shifting cultivation (jhum)
p. 0010 | Paul, Mithu; Paul, Partha Pratim

Looking East: familial support as a crucial predictor of treatment management in psychiatric illnesses?
p. 0010 | Srivastava, Vibhuti

Need for conservation of biodiversity in Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh
p. 0011 | Pattanaik, Chiranjibi; Prasad, S. Narendra; Reddy, C. Sudhakar

Radioecological sensitivity in coastal marine food resources of India - need for a reference model database
p. 0012 | Regunathan, C.; Kitto, M. R.

Unravelling climate change
p. 0014 | Pereira, Neelam

RT-PCR technique for rapid detection of CHIK virus
p. 0014 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

2008 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prizes
p. 0015 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

CSIR Young Scientist and CSIR Technology Awards 2008
p. 0015 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

Noni Search 2008
p. 0016 | Singh, Kirti; Peter, P. I.; Rethinam, P.; Singh, Brahma; Marimuthu, T.; Peter, K. V.

Sericulture and viable technologies for better silk production
p. 0017 | Unni, B. G.; Murthy, U. S. N.

Community-based sustainable natural resources management and development in Northeast India
p. 0019 | Singh, Ranjay K.; Srivastava, R. C.; Mukherjee, T. K.

Treatment of brain fever - breakthrough in sight
p. 0022 | Rosalind Ezhil K.

Integrating geo-spatial information technologies and participatory methods in agricultural development
p. 0023 | Reddy, M. Narayana; Rao, N. H.

Food security: The challenges of climate change and bioenergy
p. 0026 | Gahukar, R. T.

Tungsten-cobalt contamination from pulverizing cup
p. 0029 | Saikia, G. C.; Sinha, T. K.; Kharshiing, F.

Elysia bangtawaensis Swennen (Nudibranch) from the mangrove habitat of Mandovi estuary, Goa (central west coast), India
p. 0030 | Jagtap, Tanaji G.; Shenai-Tirodkar, Prachi; Savant, S. B.; Kulkarni, V. A.; Ansari, Z. A.

Was Bundelkhand-Aravalli nucleus part of Ur supercontinent?
p. 0033 | Mondal, M. E. A.

Methane emission modelling from wetlands and waterlogged areas using MODIS data
p. 0036 | Agarwal, Reshu; Garg, J. K.

Problems with geoengineering schemes to combat climate change
p. 0041 | Bala, G.

Temporal evolution of measured climate forcing agents at South Pole, Antarctica
p. 0049 | Ghude, Sachin D.; Jain, S. L.; Arya, B. C.

Structural characteristics of a giant tropical liana and its mode of canopy spread in an alien environment
p. 0058 | Maheshwari, Ramesh; Rao, K. Sankara; Ramachandra, T. V.

Skull of Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani, a new Cretaceous ankylosaur from the Gobi Desert
p. 0065 | Miles, Clifford A.; Miles, Clark J.

Distribution of Indian clam shrimps (Branchiopoda: Crustacea)
p. 0071 | Prasad, M. K. Durga; Simhachalam, G.

Biodiversity of large branchiopods of Australian saline lakes
p. 0074 | Timms, Brian V.

Biodiversity of the brine shrimp Artemia from tropical salterns in southern México and Cuba
p. 0081 | Tizol-correa, Rafael; Maeda-martínez, Alejandro M.; Weekers, Peter H. H.; Torrentera, Laura; Murugan, Gopal

Experimental hybridization of two African Streptocephalus species (Crustacea, Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
p. 0088 | Dumont, Henri J.; Adriaens, Els

Experimental hybridization of two African Streptocephalus species (Crustacea, Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
p. 0088 | Dumont, Henri J.; Adriaens, Els

Reproduction of the tadpole shrimp Triops (Notostraca) in Mexican waters
p. 0091 | García-velazco, Humberto; Obregón-barboza, Hortencia; Rodríguez-jaramillo, Carmen; Maeda-martínez, Alejandro M.

Reproduction of the tadpole shrimp Triops (Notostraca) in Mexican waters
p. 0091 | García-velazco, Humberto; Obregón-barboza, Hortencia; Rodríguez-jaramillo, Carmen; Maeda-martínez, Alejandro M.

Can males successfully invade hermaphroditic populations of clam shrimp (Eulimnadia texana)?
p. 0098 | Weeks, Stephen C.

Embryonic development and occurrence of p26 and artemin-like protein in the cryptobiotic cysts of freshwater fairy shrimp, Streptocephalus dichotomus Baird
p. 0103 | Munuswamy, N.; Sathyanarayanan, S.; Priyadarshini, A.

Species representation and gender proportion from mixed Artemia franciscana and A. parthenogenetica (Anostraca) commercial cysts hatched over a wide range of temperatures
p. 0111 | Campos-ramos, Rafael; Obregón-barboza, Hortencia; Maeda-martínez, Alejandro M.

Survival, growth and composition of Poecilia latipinna fry fed enriched Artemia nauplii
p. 0114 | Arulvasu, C.; Munuswamy, N.

Aerobic Gram-positive heterotrophic bacteria Exiguobacterium mexicanum and Microbacterium sp. in the gut lumen of Artemia franciscana larvae under gnotobiotic conditions
p. 0120 | Orozco-medina, César; López-cortés, Alejandro; Maeda-martínez, Alejandro M.

Multiple hatching events in clam shrimp: Implications for mate guarding behaviour and community ecology
p. 0130 | Benvenuto, C.; Calabrese, A.; Reed, S. K.; Knott, B.

Procreant PSO for fastening the convergence to optimal solution in the application of document clustering
p. 0137 | Premalatha, K.; Natarajan, A. M.

Gender variation in a threatened and endemic palm Trachycarpus takil Becc.
p. 0144 | Kholia, B. S.

Water repellency of soils in the lower Himalayan regions of India: impact of land use
p. 0148 | Mandal, Debashis; Jayaprakash, J.

Salinity status of tsunami-affected soil and water resources of South Andaman, India
p. 0152 | Raja, R.; Chaudhuri, S. Ghoshal; Ravisankar, N.; Swarnam, T. P.; Jayakumar, V.; Srivastava, R. C.

Intensity of shape preferred orientation in a granite and its tectonic implications
p. 0156 | Majumder, Sukhen; Mamtani, Manish A.

Experimenting with the Quantum World by S. T. Lakshmikumar
p. 0161 | Priolkar, Kaustubh R. S.

Fundamentals of Genetics by G. S. Miglani
p. 0162 | Burma, Pradeep Kumar

Global Warming: There is Still Time to Act by Alok Bhattacharya
p. 0164 | Joshi, Yateendra

K. R. Rao - A remembrance (1936-2008)
p. 0165 | Dasannacharya, B. A.

Banaras Hindu University
p. 0166

FIFTH COURSE ON APPLICATION OF GEOINFORMATICS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
p. 0167

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC AND OCEAN RESEARCH
p. 0168

TRAINING WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
p. 0169

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
p. 0170

Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
p. 0170

Osmania University
p. 0171

INDO-U.S. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FORUM
p. 0171

School of Chemical Sciences
p. 0172

West Bengal University of Technology
p. 0172

S. N. BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES
p. 0172