In this issue
p. 1428

Paleontology: A Minefield of Controversies
p. 1429 | Balaram, P.

A national level programme of quality mathematics education for bright students in schools
p. 1431 | Prasad, Phoolan; Tikekar, V. G.

Rivers in threat
p. 1431 | Laskar, Boni Amin; Rawat, Jawan Singh

Disappointment for Indian submissions in innovative global health funding opportunity
p. 1432 | Bhan, Anant

Can sweetness be difficult to handle when in excess?
p. 1433 | Nagarajan, B.; Krishnamoorthy, M.; Pandiarajan, C.; Manimekalan, A.

Influence of sub-orbital scale climatic variability on monsoons
p. 1433 | Manjunatha, Busnur R.

Influence of sub-orbital scale climatic variability on monsoons(Response)
p. 1434 | Das, S. S.; Maurya, A. S.; Pandey, A. C.; Bhan, Uday; Rai, A. K.

Prejudiced book review
p. 1435 | Sarma, Nataraja

Association of Indian Stingless Bee, Trigona iridipennis Smith (Apidae: Meliponinae) with Red-listed Cycas sphaerica Roxb. (Cycadaceae)
p. 1435 | Raju, A. J. Solomon; Rao, K. Sambasiva; Rao, N. Govinda

Effects of anthropogenic interferences
p. 1435 | Sagar, R.

Hyderabad to host International Congress of Mathematicians
p. 1437 | Rosalind Ezhil K.

Shanta S. Rao Award
p. 1438 | Sheth, Parul R.

Enzymes and biotechnology for cleaner leather processing
p. 1439 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

Hybrid and nanomaterials - 2009
p. 1441 | Pramanick, A. K.; Nayar, S.

Environment and disasters: resources, systems and management
p. 1442 | Gupta, Anil K.

Groundwater management for food security
p. 1444 | Sharma, K. D.

Applying pure mathematics: mathematics in the natural sciences
p. 1448 | Gadgil, Siddhartha

Social relevance of science and technology
p. 1450 | Kadekodi, Gopal K.

Internal heat production in hot Jupiter exo-planets, thermonuclear ignition of dark galaxies, and the basis for galactic luminous star distributions
p. 1453 | Herndon, J. Marvin

Do node points play a role in flood proliferation?
p. 1457 | Kotoky, P.; Bezbaruah, D.; Borah, G. C.; Sarma, J. N.

Future switching technology: bacterial protein-based programmable all-optical switch for integrated optics applications?
p. 1461 | Hegde, Gopalkrishna M.; Reddy, K. P. J.

The evolution of photosynthesis and chloroplasts
p. 1466 | Björn, Lars Olof; Govindjee

Antibiotic resistance: an overview of mechanisms and a paradigm shift
p. 1475 | Jayaraman, R.

Ostrich-like eggshells from a 10. 1 million-yr-old Miocene ape locality, Haritalyangar, Himachal Pradesh, India
p. 1485 | Patnaik, Rajeev; Sahni, Ashok; Cameron, David; Pillans, Brad; Chatrath, Prithijit; Simons, Elwyn; Williams, Martin; Bibi, Faysal

Visible 20-femtosecond pulse generation by double-pass non-collinear optical parametric amplifier
p. 1496 | Kumar, S. K. Karthick; Goswami, T.; Bhattacharyya, I.; Goswami, D.

Diversity of yeast with β-glycosidase activity in vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) plant
p. 1501 | General, T.; Mamatha, V.; Divya, V.; Appaiah, K. A. Anu

Cyclosis in pond weed (Elodea canadensis): bicarbonate and NO effects using pharmacologicals
p. 1506 | Khan, Nayeem Ullah; Imrana, Nazeeb

Nickel anomalies in ultramafic profiles of Jayachamarajapura schist belt, Western Dharwar Craton
p. 1512 | Rashmi, B. N.; Prabhakar, B. C.; Gireesh, R. V.; Nijagunaiah, R.; Ranganath, R. M.

Evidence of a late-medieval mega flood event in the upper reaches of the Mahi River basin, Gujarat
p. 1517 | Sridhar, Alpa

Electrical resistivity imaging for the study of quartz reef using inverse slope method
p. 1521 | Yadav, Suresh Prasad; Singh, D. N.; Singh, Amarjeet K.; Prasad, Rajshekhar

Enzyme Technology by S. Shanmugam and T. Sathishkumar
p. 1528 | Gupta, M. N.

Annual Review of Immunology, 2008 by William E. Paul and Dan R. Littman (eds)
p. 1529 | Nandi, Dipankar

Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter by Rasmussen Et Al(eds)
p. 1530 | Mittal, Aditya

Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2008 by Steven E. Hyman, Thomas M. Jessel, Carla J. Shatz and Charles F. Stevens (eds)
p. 1532 | Murthy, Aditya

Ajit Ram Verma (1921-2009)
p. 1534 | Lal, Krishan

Homi Jehangir Bhabha
p. 1536 | Dasannacharya, B. A.

Technology Business Incubator, Biotech Centre, University of Delhi South Campus
p. 1539

Department of Earth Sciences
p. 1540

Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry
p. 1541

WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY
p. 1542

UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
p. 1543

Human Resource Development Group
p. 1544

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
p. 1544

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR
p. 1545

INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH
p. 1545

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
p. 1546

INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS
p. 1546

University of Mumbai
p. 1547

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
p. 1547

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
p. 1548

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR
p. 1549

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR
p. 1549

ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
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