Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

845	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

847	Drug discovery: Myth and reality
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

849	Palk Bay: A future industrial complex site?
	Richard Brook Cathcart
850	Appropriate sampling design in palaeobotany for correlating floristics  with stratigraphy
	A. K. Srivastava
851	Is there anything like ‘Indian Science’?
	Ashok Sahni
852	Ramaseshan Fellowships
	Erol Agnab

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NEWS

852	New Head for DRDO
852	Luring women back to science -- DST’s Women Scientists Scheme
	Monika Koul Moza

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RESEARCH NEWS

854	Gas flow over solid surfaces generates electric current
	Papiya Bhattacharya
856	Genetic transformation of human cells by a soil phytopathogen presents  common molecular strategies
	Vageeshbabu S. Hanur

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COMMENTARY

857	HIV/AIDS in the developing world
859	Pulse yields: Feeling the pulse
	G. P. Brahmaprakash, J. Chandraprakash, K. N. Ganeshaiah and R. Uma Shaanker

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862	From the archives

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

863	A seismogenic active fault in the western Himalaya
	D. D. Joshi
865	Fossil chromosomes in an extinct Gondwanan seed plant (Pentoxylon)
	S. D. Bonde, P. Varghese, K. P. N. Kumaran, M. R. Shindikar and P. G. Gamre
866	Record of new petrified epiphyllous fungi (Polyhyphaethyrites) from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaon Kalan, Madhya Pradesh, India
	Rashmi Srivastava and R. K. Kar
868	First record of euendolithic biota from the basal part of Tal Group in  Himachal Lesser Himalaya, India
	Manoj Shukla, Rupendra Babu, V. K. Mathur and D. K. Srivastava
870	Diverse genetic bases of Indian polyembryonic and monoembryonic mango (Mangifera indica L) cultivars
	K. V. Ravishankar, P. Chandrashekara, S. A. Sreedhara, M. R. Dinesh,  Lalitha Anand and G. V. S. Saiprasad
872	Stylar movement avoids self-pollination and promotes cross-pollination in Eremurus himalaicus
	Susheel Verma, Rani Magotra and A. K. Koul

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GENERAL ARTICLES

874	The role of alliance in modern biotech industries in developing countries
	Prasanta K. Ghosh
885	Sophistication in distributed denial-of-service attacks on the Internet
	V. Anil Kumar

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SPECIAL SECTION: APPLICATION OF S&T TO RURAL AREAS

889	Science and technology for rural India
	Amulya K. N. Reddy

899	Sustainable building technologies
	B. V. Venkatarama Reddy
908	Biomass gasification technology -- a route to meet energy needs
	S. Dasappa, P. J. Paul, H. S. Mukunda, N. K. S. Rajan, G. Sridhar and H. V. Sridhar
917	Evolving biomass-based biogas plants: The ASTRA experience
	H. N. Chanakya, P. Rajabapaiah and J. M. Modak
926	The development and dissemination of efficient domestic cook stoves and  other devices in Karnataka
	K. S. Jagadish
932	Sustainable biomass power for rural India: Case study of biomass gasifier  for village electrification
	N. H. Ravindranath, H. I. Somashekar, S. Dasappa and C. N. Jayasheela Reddy
942	Water quality in sustainable water management
	Sudhakar M. Rao and P. Mamatha
948	GIS-based technologies for watershed management
	A. K. Gosain and Sandhya Rao
954	Strategies for rural poverty alleviation in India: A perspective based on  remote sensing and GIS-based nationwide wasteland mapping
	S. K. Srivastava, C. B. S. Dutt, R. Nagaraja, S. Bandyopadhayay, H. C. Meena Rani,  V. S. Hegde and V. Jayaraman
960	Information and communication technologies and poverty alleviation
	Subbiah Arunachalam
967	Alternative approaches to delivery of medical technology for rural health
	Noshir H. Antia

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

971	Sorbates in carbon nanotubes: Transition from diffusive to superdiffusive motion
	Shreyas Y. Bhide, Debashree Ghosh, S. Yashonath and G. Ananthakrishna
975	Oxyboron complexes of C60-fullerene: a new direction in fullerene chemistry
	Radhaballabh Debnath and Rampada Sahoo
981	Pyrolysis of rice husk
	Anshu Bharadwaj, Y. Wang, S. Sridhar and V. S. Arunachalam
986	Accumulation of the periplasmic protein alkaline phosphatase in  cell cytosol induces heat shock response in E. coli
	Sujan Chaudhuri, Bimal Jana, Suchitra Sarkar and Tarakdas Basu
990	On the recurrence of Noctiluca scintillans bloom in Minnie Bay, Port Blair: Impact on water quality and bioactivity of extracts
	G. Dharani, A. K. Abdul Nazar, L. Kanagu, P. Venkateshwaran, T. S. Kumar,  Krupa Ratnam, R. Venkatesan and M. Ravindran
995	Quartz C-axes and metastable phases in the metamorphic rocks of  Almora Nappe: Evidence of Pre-Himalayan signatures
	Mallickarjun Joshi and A. N. Tiwari
999	Origin of oceanic plagiogranite in the Nidar ophiolitic sequence of  eastern Ladakh, India
	D. Rameshwar Rao, Hakim Rai and J. Senthil Kumar
1005	Predatory bugs of Zygogramma bicolorata Pallister: An exotic beetle for biological suppression of Parthenium hysterophorus L.
	R. K. Gupta, M. S. Khan, Kamlesh Bali, Md. Monobrullah and R. M. Bhagat

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BOOK REVIEWS

1011	Hysteresis Machines by N. D. Sharma and R. E. Bedford
	reviewed by D. P. Sen Gupta
1011	Regional Groundwater Modeling by M Thangarajan
	reviewed by K. Sridharan

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PERSONAL NEWS

1012	V. M. Thakor
	Anamik Shah

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HISTORICAL NEWS

1013	Four hundredth anniversary of Kepler’s supernova
	P. R. Vishwanath

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ADVERTISEMENTS

1016	Ashoka Trust for research in Ecology and the Environment
1017	DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
1018	SCOTT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
1018	SHRI AMM MURUGAPPA CHETTIAR RESEARCH CENTRE
1019	Nagaland University
1019	nATIONAL bRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

	National Seminar on Vermitechnolgy and Waste Management
	International Conference on Sustainable Crop Production in  Stress Environments: Management and Genetic Options
	Training Course on Infectious Disease Diagnostics
	International Symposium on Human Papillomavirus and  Cervical Cancer
	National Workshop on Phosphate Rich Organic Manure -- An Alternate to Chemical Phosphatic Fertilizers (PROM Review-2004)
	DST Sponsored Contact Programme On Experimental  Structural Geology
	National Conference on Plant Sciences -- 2004
	4th National Convention of Chemistry Teachers
	9th National Conference on ‘Bioactive Heterocycles and  Drug Discovery Paradigm’
	National Conference on ‘Genomics for Health’
	Workshop on Hydrodynamics
	International Conference on Reliability, Statistics and  Related Fields (IC RSRF)
	First Course on Geoinformatics for Disaster Management

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