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IN THIS ISSUE

723	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

725	Anguish of a medico
	C. C. Kartha

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CORRESPONDENCE

727	Dwindling of groundwater resources – whose folly?
	K. C. Subhash Chandra
727	Disallow caste discrimination in biological and social contexts
	Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
728	‘Terminator . . .’ back again?
	Ashalatha S. Nair
728	Need for self-assessment of educational institutions
	V. Radhakrishnan
729	Can Habur Limestone curdle milk?
	P. S. Ranawat
730	Malaria millennium development goals, treatment costs and generics
	Revant R. Gupta and Rajeev Gupta
731	Why did the 28 March 2005 Sumatra earthquake of Mw 8.7 generate only a minor tsunami?
	B. K. Rastogi

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NEWS

733	National Knowledge Commission constituted
733	Medals for Indian students at Biology Olympiad
733	A new initiative on genetics at Banaras Hindu University
	Minakshi De
734	National Water Convention
	M. N. Madhyastha

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RESEARCH NEWS

736	A new class of gels
	Minakshi De

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OPINION

737	Wilderness woes – Tribals vs tigers: Pros and cons
	V. M. Meher Homji

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

739	Years of life lost and productivity loss due to tsunami in India
	K. Krishnamoorthy, K. T. Harichandrakumar, A. Krishna Kumari and P. K. Das
741	Iron meteorite fall at Bhuka village, Barmer district, Rajasthan
	K. L. Shrivastava, V. Gaur, J. Swadia, N. Bhandari and A. D. Shukla
742	Iron pyrites for reducing ammonia volatilization losses from fertilizer urea applied to a sandy clay loam soil
	Y. S. Shivay, Dinesh Kumar and Rajendra Prasad
743	Vertebrate circadian clock research: Do experiments on birds and lower vertebrates promise better insights?
	Vinod Kumar
747	An earthquake of M ~ 5 may occur at Koyna
	Harsh Gupta et al.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

749	Links between embryology and evolutionary floral morphology
	Peter K. Endress
755	The Ganga at Varanasi and a travail to stop her abuse
	Veer Bhadra Mishra

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REVIEW ARTICLES

764	Degeneration and death of neurons in adult neurodegenerative diseases
	Pranab Kumar Sarkar
774	Water quality in the Central Himalaya
	Subodh Sharma, Roshan M. Bajracharya, Bishal K. Sitaula and Juerg Merz

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SPECIAL SECTION: WATER

787	Water: Science and society
	T. N. Narasimhan
794	Water resources of India
	Rakesh Kumar, R. D. Singh and K. D. Sharma
812	Groundwater ethics for its sustainability
	P. S. Datta
818	Climate and water resources of India
	R. Ramesh and M. G. Yadava
825	Groundwater isotopic investigations in India: What has been learned?
	S. K. Gupta and R. D. Deshpande
836	Why do Gangetic rivers aggrade or degrade?
	Rajiv Sinha
841	Chemical weathering in the river basins of the Himalaya, India
	S. Krishnaswami and Sunil K. Singh
850	Biological management of water on land
	V. Rajamani

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

853	The discovery of PSR J1833–1034: the pulsar associated with the supernova remnant G21.5–0.9
	Y. Gupta, D. Mitra, D. A. Green and A. Acharyya
857	First observations of extremely small dispersion whistlers from Bhopal (L ~ 0.96), a low-latitude station
	Sunil K. Singh, Lalmani, Shailendra Saini and A. K. Gwal

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

864	Need of a disaster alert system for India through a network of real-time monitoring of sea-level and other meteorological events
	Antony Joseph and R. G. Prabhudesai
870	Molecular evidence for occurrence of Tuberose mild mottle virus infecting tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) in India
	Saurabh Kulshrestha, Arpna Mehra, Vipin Hallan, Gaurav Raikhy, Raja Ram and A. A. Zaidi
873	Phytodiversity and growth form in relation to altitudinal gradient in the Central Himalayan (Kumaun) region of India
	Geeta Kharkwal, Poonam Mehrotra, Y. S. Rawat and Y. P. S. Pangtey
879	Greater sensitivity of Hordeum himalayens Schult. to increasing temperature causes reduction in its cultivated area
	S. C. Joshi and L. M. S. Palni
882	A computer-based identification of variable number tandem repeats in White spot syndrome virus genomes
	Malathi Shekar, Indrani Karunasagar and I. Karunasagar
887	Assessing the role of FecB mutation in productivity of Indian sheep
	V. C. Pardeshi, M. N. Sainani, J. F. Maddox, P. M. Ghalsasi, C. Nimbkar and V. S. Gupta

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BOOK REVIEWS

891	Earth System Analysis for Sustainability. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al. (eds)
	reviewed by S. K. Tandon
892	Science in Archaeology and Archaeo-materials by Anun Kumar Biswas (ed.)
	reviewed by P. Ramakoteswara Rao
893	Disaster Management by Harsh K. Gupta (ed.)
	reviewed by Vinod Sharma

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PERSONAL NEWS

895	Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhatt (1909–2005)
	Sriram Shastry

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COVER CAPTION

The river Bhagirathi, near Gangotri, Himalayas, showing the interplay of rock, water and vegetation (Picture courtesy: Sudarshana Anand, JNU). See special section. The editor thanks V. Rajamani, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Univer­sity, New Delhi, India for agreeing to be guest editor for the special section.

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