Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

740	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

741	Cooperation, Conflict and Competition
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

743	Funding delayed means research retarded
	Naibedya Chattopadhyay
743	Karthick Chander Bose
	Indrani Bose
744	Litmus test for assessing research performance
	V. Rajagopal
744	Top universities lead scientific innovation
	Fred Y. Ye
745	Need for conservation of wetlands in arid Kachchh region
	B. Anjan Kumar Prusty

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NEWS

747	Environment and hydrometeorological disasters – land, water and agriculture context
	Anil K. Gupta

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RESEARCH NEWS

748	Milking diatoms – a new route to sustainable energy
	V. T. Yadugiri

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COMMENTARY

751	Ranking of Indian universities for their research output and quality using a new perfor­mance index
	Gangan Prathap and B. M. Gupta
753	Arsenic groundwater contamination in parts of middle Ganga plain, Bihar
	Dipankar Saha

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GENERAL ARTICLES

756	Science and the ethics of curiosity
	Sundar Sarukkai
768	Biotechnology – applications to environmental remediation in resource exploitation
	Ranen Sen and Sharadindra Chakrabarti

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

776	Amplified Msf tides at Kochi backwaters on the southwest coast of India
	Antony Joseph, K. K. Balachandran, Prakash Mehra, R. G. Prabhudesai, Vijay Kumar, Yogesh Agarvadekar, C. Revichandran and Nitin Dabholkar

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SPECIAL SECTION: ASTRONOMY

785	Frontiers in space astronomy
	Dipankar Bhattacharya
793	Low frequency observations of high redshift galaxies
	Jayaram N. Chengalur
804	X-ray views of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries
	Sudip Bhattacharyya
821	Galaxy surveys
	Somnath Bharadwaj
841	Analytical models of the intergalactic medium and reionization
	Tirthankar Roy Choudhury
858	Learning about the Universe from Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
	T. R. Seshadri
868	An introduction to inflation and cosmological perturbation theory
	L. Sriramkumar
887	A primer on problems and prospects of dark energy
	M. Sami
911	The solar interior
	H. M. Antia

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

923	Reanalysis of rDNA-ITS2 region sequences of Anopheles cf. culicifacies ‘Bluchistan’ revealed conspecificity to A. dthali
	K. Raghavendra, B. P. Niranjan Reddy, A. P. Dash and Aparup Das
925	Increasing prolificacy and ewe efficiency in sheep through FecB gene introgression
	A. K. Mishra A. L. Arora and Satish Kumar
930	Fuel properties and combustion characteristics of Lantana camara and Eupatorium spp.
	Ritesh Kumar, N. Chandrashekar and K. K. Pandey
935	Ground insect community responses to habitat restoration efforts in the Attappady hills, Western Ghats, India
	Ravi Ramalingam and Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan
941	Overlap index: a measure to assess flowering synchrony among teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f) clones in seed orchards
	Rajesh P. Gunaga and R. Vasudeva
946	Strain estimation from the fabrics of deformed rocks
	Hari B. Srivastava

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BOOK REVIEWS

950	Secret Lives: Biodiversity of the Indian Institute of Science Campus by Natasha Mhatre
	reviewed by R. J. Ranjit Daniels
951	The New Invisible College: Science for Development by Caroline S. Wagner
	reviewed by Sujit Bhattacharya
952	Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease, 2009. Abul K. Abbas, Stephen J. Galli and Peter M. Howley (eds)
	reviewed by Sanjay A. Pai

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HISTORICAL NOTES

954	Darwin as a botanist
	Ramesh Maheshwari

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.

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