Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1526	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1527	Patents, Laws and Science
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1529	Where have we gone wrong?
	S. Krishnan
1529	Reinventing Indian universities
	P. Tauro
1530	Scientific writing
	Nandini Kumar
1530	Tsunami of 26 December 2004
	Y. Sadhuram
1531	Are Bt toxin engineered plants truly safe?
	Dwijendra Singh
1532	Post-disaster reflections
	Sridhar D. Iyer
1533	Crisis in arsenic news
	Garga Chatterjee
1533	Evidence to support that diclofenac caused catastrophic vulture population decline
	V. Prakash, R. E. Green, A. R. Rahmani, D. J. Pain, M. Z. Virani, Aleem A. Khan, H. S. Baral, Y. V. Jhala, R. Naoroji, Nita Shah, C. G. R. Bowden, B. C. Choudhury, G. Narayan and P. Gautam
1535	Credibility of accreditation by NAAC
	Biju Dharmapalan
1535	Heavy metals and Ayurveda
	Patwardhan Bhushan, Warude Dnyaneshwar and Tillu Girish

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NEWS

1536	92nd Indian Science Congress
	Minakshi De
1541	The Berlin-3 meeting
	Subbiah Arunachalam
1543	Biodiversity and insect pest management
	S. Ignacimuthu

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1545	Adaptability and production of hottest chilli variety under Gwalior agro-climatic conditions
	Akhilesh Tiwari, M. P. Kaushik, K. S. Pandey and R. S. Dangi
1547	Composition of Cr-spinel – an ore genetic indicator of Kathpal Chromite Deposit, Sukinda Ultramafic Complex, Orissa, India
	Amit Kumar Sen, Pravin Kumar Sharma, Debadutta Mohanty and Tamal K. Ghosh
1550	Recovery of airborne palynodebris from Continental Ice Sheet, Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica
	S. K. Bera

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1553	Need to inculcate the culture of intellectual property protection in research and development
	Dipak B. Shukla

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RESEARCH ACCOUNT

1562	Simulation of electromagnetic signals propagating through magnetoplasma
	Kalpana Singh and R. P. Singh

RESEARCH ARTICLES

1573	Financial valuation of non-timber forest product flows in Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, Karnataka
	I. K. Murthy, P. R. Bhat, N. H. Ravindranath and R. Sukumar
1580	Sorption of arsenic onto Vindhyan shales: Role of pyrite and organic carbon
	S. Paikaray, S. Banerjee and S. Mukherji

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SPECIAL SECTION: INTRAPLATE SEISMICITY

1586	Improved earthquake locations and estimation of Pn and Sn path anomalies for India, using multiple event relocation and reference events
	B. K. Rastogi, E. A. Bergman and E. R. Engdahl
1592	A review of structure and tectonics of Kutch basin, western India, with special reference to earthquakes
	S. K. Biswas
1601	Analysis of gravity and magnetic anomalies of Kachchh rift basin, India and its comparison with the New Madrid seismic zone, USA
	D. V. Chandrasekhar, Bijendra Singh, Md. Firozishah and D. C. Mishra
1609	Fault intersections and intraplate seismicity in Charleston, South Carolina: Insights from a 2-D numerical model
	Abhijit Gangopadhyay and Pradeep Talwani
1617	Fractal analysis of aftershock sequence of the Bhuj earthquake: A wavelet-based approach
	V. P. Dimri, Nimisha Vedanti and Sandip Chattopadhyay
1621	Structure and seismotectonics of Satpura, Central India
	D. M. Mall, A. P. Singh and D. Sarkar
1628	Artificial water reservoir-triggered earthquakes with special emphasis at Koyna
	Harsh K. Gupta
1632	Revisiting the 1897 Shillong and 1905 Kangra earthquakes in northern India: Site response, Moho reflections and a triggered earthquake
	Susan E. Hough, Roger Bilham, Nicolas Ambraseys and Nicole Feldl
1639	Comparison of the deep crustal structure and seismicity of North America with the Indian subcontinent
	Walter D. Mooney, V. Vijaya Rao, P. R. Reddy, Gary S. Chulick and Shane T. Detweiler
1652	Crustal velocity structure of western India and its use in understanding intraplate seismicity
	P. R. Reddy
1658	Apparent Himalayan slip deficit from the summation of seismic moments for Himalayan earthquakes, 1500–2000
	Roger Bilham and Nicholas Ambraseys

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1664	Fertility and mortality among the scheduled caste Madigas of Andhra Pradesh, India
	K. Rajasekhara Reddy
1669	Oceanic fronts along 45°E across Antarctic Circumpolar Current during austral summer 2004
	N. Anilkumar, M. K. Dash, A. J. Luis, V. Ramesh Babu, Y. K. Somayajulu, M. Sudhakar and P. C. Pandey
1674	Agrobacterium-mediated tomato transformation and regeneration of transgenic lines expressing Tomato leaf curl virus coat protein gene for resistance against TLCV infection
	S. K. Raj, Rachana Singh, S. K. Pandey and B. P. Singh
1679	Bat pollination of kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra
	P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, H. Raghuram, V. Elangovan, T. Karuppudurai and G. Marimuthu
1682	Optimizing the time of harvest of nucleopolyhedrovirus infected Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) larvae under in vivo production systems
	C. M. Senthil Kumar, N. Sathiah and R. J. Rabindra
1684	Record of rhodoliths from Aramda Reef Member (Late Pleistocene to Holocene) of Chaya Formation, Dwarka–Okha area, Gujarat and their paleoenvironmental significance
	P. Kundal and A. P. Dharashivkar

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BOOK REVIEWS

1690	Basic Bioinformatics by S. Ignacimuthu
	reviewed by S. Ramachandran
1690	Remote Sensing – Principles and Applications by B. C. Panda
	reviewed by B. L. Deekshatulu
1691	Global Change in the Holocene by Anson Mackay et al.
	reviewed by Anirudha S. Khadkikar

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