Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

965	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

967	Selling science
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

969	India matters: Changes needed in various sectors
	Sribir Sen
969	Rituals of Science Congress
	Subir K. Sen
971	A suitable UK wheat variety for making chapatis
	Y. P. Abrol
971	Hevea latex as a wound healer and pain killer
	L. Thankamma
972	Saturation of Olive Ridley nesting sites
	P. Mohanty-Hejmadi
972	Absence of condensing agent
	Dinkar Sahal
973	Need for high-resolution deep seismic reflection studies in strategic locales of South India
	P. R. Reddy
974	The Bt cotton story: The ethics of science and its reportage
	Suman Sahai

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NEWS

975	GD Birla Award for Partha Majumdar
976	Puppetry: The perfect medium for edutainment and S&T communication
	Narottam Sahoo
977	Nuclear terrorism perception: Some strategies and recommendations to handle a disaster scenario
	R. N. Sharan
978	Beyond Gaussian: Theoretical chemistry in India comes of age
	N. Sathyamurthy

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979	From the archives

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RESEARCH NEWS

980	Lightning-generated electromagnetic wave emission from Jupiter’s atmosphere
	R. N. Singh

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983	Random selections

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

984	Corchorus pseudo-olitorius Islam and Zaid – A new addition to Indian flora
	A. K. Mahapatra, M. Abdul Nizar, Dipankar Saha, A. Saha and D. Gupta
985	Paragonimus and paragonimiasis – A new focus in Arunachal Pradesh, India
	Kanwar Narain, K. Rekha Devi and J. Mahanta
987	First record of charophytes from the Permian Barakar Formation of the Talchir Gondwana Basin, Orissa
	Chirananda De

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GENERAL ARTICLE

990	Himalayan forest database – Thinking beyond dominants
	Ranbeer S. Rawal, Bhawana Pandey and Uppeandra Dhar

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REVIEW ARTICLE

995	Evolution of early continental crust
	R. S. Sharma and M. K. Pandit

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SPECIAL SECTION: GLOBAL CORRELATION OF LATE CENOZOIC FLUVIAL DEPOSITS—FOCUS ON INDIA

1002	Facies, fossils and correlation of Late Miocene fluvial sequences of the Himalayan foreland basin
	S. B. Bhatia
1006	Mio-Pliocene sedimentation history in the northwestern part of the Himalayan Foreland Basin, India
	Rohtash Kumar, Sumit K. Ghosh and Satish J. Sangode
1014	Magnetostratigraphic correlation of the Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences from NW Himalaya, India
	S. J. Sangode and Rohtash Kumar
1025	River systems in the Gangetic plains and their comparison with the Siwaliks: A review
	Vikrant Jain and R. Sinha
1034	Geomorphology and sedimentology of Piedmont Zone, Ganga Plain, India
	U. K. Shukla and D. S. Bora
1041	A sediment budget for the Ganga–Brahmaputra catchment
	R. J. Wasson
1048	Quaternary alluvial stratigraphy and palaeoclimatic reconstruction at the Thar margin
	M. Jain and S. K. Tandon
1056	Late Quaternary fluvial sequences of southern Mainland Kachchh, western India
	D. M. Maurya, S. Bhandari, M. G. Thakkar and L. S. Chamyal
1065	Quaternary fluvial sequences of South Saurashtra, Western India
	Nilesh Bhatt and U. A. Bhonde
1072	Sedimentary records of palaeofloods in the bedrock gorges of the Tapi and Narmada rivers, central India
	Vishwas S. Kale, Sheila Mishra and Victor R. Baker
1080	A long Quaternary terrace sequence in the Orontes River valley, Syria: A record of uplift and of human occupation
	David R. Bridgland, Graham Philip, Rob Westaway and Mark White
1090	Pliocene and Quaternary surface uplift of western Turkey revealed by long-term river terrace sequences
	Rob Westaway, Malcolm Pringle, Sema Yurtmen, Tuncer Demir, David Bridgland, George Rowbotham and Darrel Maddy
1102	The arsenic cycle in Late Quaternary fluvial sediments: Mineralogical considerations
	B. C. Raymahashay and A. S. Khare
1105	The effect of changes in the Earth’s moment of inertia during glaciation on geomagnetic polarity excursions and reversals: Implications for Quaternary chronology
	Rob Westaway

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

1116	Crustal thermal structure of the Godavari graben and coastal basin
	D. V. Ramana, S. Thiagarajan and S. N. Rai

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1123	Splitting of ribosome into its subunits by unfolded polypeptide chains
	Arunima Basu, Jaydip Ghosh, Arpita Bhattacharya, Saumen Pal, Saheli Chowdhury and Chanchal DasGupta
1125	STMS-based DNA fingerprints of the new plant type wheat lines
	T. Mohapatra, Krishanpal, S. S. Singh, S. C. Swain, R. K. Sharma and N. K. Singh
1129	A simple method for mass production of potato microtubers using a bioreactor system
	Xuan Chun Piao, Debasis Chakrabarty, Eun Joo Hahn and Kee Yoeup Paek
1133	Clonal variation for seed germination in teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f.)
	John Mathew and R. Vasudeva
1136	Detection and phylogenetic affiliation of Wolbachia sp. from Indian mosquitoes Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes albopictus
	Vyankatesh J. Pidiyar, Kamlesh Jangid, Milind S. Patole and Yogesh S. Shouche

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BOOK REVIEWS

1140	Mathematical Vistas From a Room with Many Windows
	reviewed by Shailesh A. Shirali
1141	Biodiversity Characterization at Landscape Level in North-East India using Satellite Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System
	reviewed by T. V. Ramachandra and A. V. Nagarathna
1143	Dynamics of Earth’s Fluid System
	reviewed by I. V. Radhakrishna Murthy
1144	Living with the Politics of Floods: The Mystery of Flood Control
	reviewed by K. S. Valdiya
1144	Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos
	reviewed by Avanti Mallapur

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PERSONAL NEWS

1146	M. S. Mani
	P. T. Cherian
1147	Claude Hélène
	M. R. Rajeswari

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