Vol 113, No 04 (2017)

Table of Contents

Vol 113, No 04 (2017)

In this Issue

In this Issue
K. P. Madhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/532-532 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 532-532
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Guest Editorial

Of Launches and Lunches
R. Uma Shaanker
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/533-534 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 533-534
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Correspondence

An IISc-Tsinghua Head-To-Head Evaluation of Research Using CWTS Leiden Ranking 2017 Data
Gangan Prathap
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/535-536 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 535-536
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Basic Science and 'Make in India'
B. A. Dasannacharya
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/537-537 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 537-537
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Fungal Endophytes:Nature's Tool for Bioremediation of Toxic Pollutants
B. Shankar Naik
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/537-539 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 537-539
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News

Science Last Fortnight
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/540-543 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 540-543
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Scientific Video Publication? By JoVE!
K. P. Madhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/544-545 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 544-545
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Technology, Youth and Career:A Paradigm Shift
Sangeeta Kakoty, Yamin Hassan, B. G. Unni
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/546-546 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 546-546
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Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru - 28th Mid-Year Meeting
Sushila Rajagopal, Geetha Sugumaran, Savitha Sekhar, S. Priya
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/547-549 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 547-549
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Commentary

Danger of a Single Score:NIRF Rankings of Colleges
Gangan Prathap
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/550-553 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 550-553
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Opinion

Polarity, Asymmetry and Aging:Are there Yayatis among Bacteria?
Ulfat Baig, Milind Watve, Uttara Lele
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/553-554 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 553-554
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Scientific Correspondance

Micropropagation of Symplocos racemosa Roxb., a Threatened Medicinal Tree of India
Shashikanta Behera, Durga P. Barik, Soumendra K. Naik
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/555-558 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 555-558
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Antibacterial Activity of Some Important Medicinal Plants
Vinod K. Bisht, Bir S. Negi, Arvind K. Bhandari, Rakesh S. Bisht, Jagdish C. Kaim
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/558-560 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 558-560
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Bioacoustics or Pitfall Traps:Comparison of a Modern and Traditional Method to Estimate Ensifera Richness
Manisha Tomar, Abhay Pratap Singh, Swati Diwakar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/561-563 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 561-563
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General Article

Print Mass Media Coverage of Wildlife in the Developing World
Salvador Lyngdoh, Divya Dixit, Bitapi C. Sinha
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/564-570 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 564-570
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Bioprospecting of Medicinal Plants in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve:Linking Conservation with Livelihood
R. K. Maikhuri, Vikram S. Negi, L. S. Rawat, D. S. Pharswan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/571-577 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 571-577
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Special Section: Astronomy

Preface
Ajit Kembhavi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/578-578 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 578-578
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Astronomy: Astrosat

Overview of the AstroSat Mission
S. Seetha, S. Megala
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/579-582 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 579-582
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Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on AstroSat
S. N. Tandon, S. K. Ghosh, J. Hutchings, C. S. Stalin, A. Subramaniam
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/583-586 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 583-586
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Soft X-Ray Focusing Telescope Aboard Astrosat:Early Results
K. P. Singh, G. C. Dewangan, S. Chandra, S. Bhattacharayya, V. Chitnis, G. C. Stewart, N. J. Westergaard
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/587-590 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 587-590
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Large Area X-Ray Proportional Counter Instrument on AstroSat
J. S. Yadav, P. C. Agrawal, H. M. Antia, R. K. Manchanda, B. Paul, Ranjeev Misra
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/591-594 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 591-594
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Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager On-Board Astrosat:A Multi-Faceted Hard X-Ray Instrument
A. R. Rao, D. Bhattacharya, V. B. Bhalerao, S. V. Vadawale, S. Sreekumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/595-598 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 595-598
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Scanning Sky Monitor On-Board AstroSat
M. C. Ramadevi, S. Seetha, Dipankar Bhattacharya, B. T. Ravishankar, N. Sitaramamurthy, G. Meena, M. Ramakrishna Sharma, Ravi Kulkarni, V. Chandra Babu, Kumar, Brajpal Singh, Anand Jain, Reena Yadav, S. Vaishali, B. N. Ashoka, Anil Agarwal, K. Balaji, Manoj Kumar, Prashanth Kulshresta, Pankaj Agarwal, Mathew Sebastian
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/599-601 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 599-601
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Multi-Colour Hues of the Universe Observed with AstroSat
K. P. Singh, D. Bhattacharya
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/602-609 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 602-609
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Aditya-L1 Mission
S. Seetha, S. Megala
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/610-612 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 610-612
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Astronomy: Aditya Mission

Visible Emission Line Coronagraph on Aditya-L1
B. Raghavendra Prasad, Dipankar Banerjee, Jagdev Singh, S. Nagabhushana, Amit Kumar, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, Suresh Venkata, N. Rajkumar, V. Natarajan, Madhur Juneja, Pawan Somu, Vaibhav Pant, Nigar Shaji, K. Sankarsubramanian, Asit Patra, R. Venkateswaran, Abhijit Avinash Adoni, S. Narendra, T. R. Haridas, Shibu K. Mathew, R. Mohan Krishna, K. Amareswari, Bhavesh Jaiswal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/613-615 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 613-615
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The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope On-Board Aditya-L1
Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Aafaque Khan, Avyarthana Ghosh, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Dipankar Banerjee, Pravin Chordia, Achim Gandorfer, Natalie Krivova, Dibyendu Nandy, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Sami K. Solanki
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/616-619 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 616-619
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Probing the Heliosphere Using in Situ Payloads On-Board Aditya-L1
P. Janardhan, Santosh Vadawale, Bhas Bapat, K. P. Subramanian, D. Chakrabarty, Prashant Kumar, Aveek Sarkar, Nandita Srivastava, R. Satheesh Thampi, Vipin K. Yadav, M. B. Dhanya, Govind G. Nampoothiri, J. K. Abhishek, Anil Bhardwaj, K. Subhalakshmi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/620-624 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 620-624
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X-Ray Spectrometers On-Board Aditya-L1 for Solar Flare Studies
K. Sankarasubramanian, Manju Sudhakar, Anuj Nandi, M. C. Ramadevi, Abhijit Avinash Adoni, Ankur Kushwaha, Anil Agarwal, Arjun Dey, Bhuwan Joshi, Brajpal Singh, V. Girish, Ishan Tomar, Kamal Kumar Majhi, Kumar, Manjunath Olekar, Monoj Bug, Manohar Pala, Mukund Kumar Thakur, Rajeev R. Badagandi, B. T. Ravishankar, Sarthak Garg, N. Sitaramamurthy, N. Sridhara, C. N. Umapathy, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Vivek Kumar Agrawal, B. Yougandar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/625-627 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 625-627
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Astronomy: TMT

Development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope Project
Edward Stone, Michael Bolte
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/628-630 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 628-630
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India’s Participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory Project
B. Eswar Reddy, A. N. Ramaprakash
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/631-638 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 631-638
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The Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory Facilitating Transformative Astrophysical Science
Warren Skidmore, G. C. Anupama, Raghunathan Srianand
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/639-648 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 639-648
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Astronomy: SKA

India and the Square Kilometre Array
Philip Diamond, Yashwant Gupta
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/649-656 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 649-656
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Astronomy: LIGO

The First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves Opens a Vast New Frontier in Astronomy
F. J. Raab, D. H. Reitze
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/657-662 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 657-662
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Cosmic Sirens:Discovery of Gravitational Waves and their Impact on Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics
Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/663-671 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 663-671
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LIGO-India - A Unique Adventure in Indian Science
Tarun Souradeep, Sendhil Raja, Ziauddin Khan, C. S. Unnikrishnan, Bala Iyer
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/672-677 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 672-677
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Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Varun Bhalerao
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/678-681 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 678-681
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Astronomy:Some Large Projects

Scientific Capabilities and Advantages of the 3.6 Meter Optical Telescope at Devasthal, Uttarakhand
Amitesh Omar, Brijesh Kumar, Maheswar Gopinathan, Ram Sagar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/682-685 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 682-685
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The Multi Application Solar Telescope
P. Venkatakrishnan, Shibu K. Mathew, Nandita Srivastava, A. R. Bayanna, Brajesh Kumar, Bireddy Ramya, Naresh Jain, Mukesh Saradava
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/686-690 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 686-690
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MACE Gamma-Ray Telescope - A Status Update
Ramesh Koul
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/691-695 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 691-695
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National Large Solar Telescope
S. S. Hasan, D. Banerjee, B. Ravindra, K. Sankarasubramanian, K. E. Rangarajan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/696-700 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 696-700
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India-Based Neutrino Observatory
Vivek M. Datar, Naba K. Mondal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/701-706 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 701-706
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The Upgraded GMRT:Opening New Windows on the Radio Universe
Y. Gupta, B. Ajithkumar, H. S. Kale, S. Nayak, S. Sabhapathy, S. Sureshkumar, R. V. Swami, J. N. Chengalur, S. K. Ghosh, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, B. C. Joshi, N. Kanekar, D. V. Lal, S. Roy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/707-714 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 707-714
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Review Article

PGPR-Assisted Phytoremediation of Cadmium:An Advancement towards Clean Environment
Chhaya Verma, Amar Jyoti Das, Rajesh Kumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/715-724 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 715-724
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Research Articles

Pharmaceutical Patenting Trends on Drugs and Lifestyle Diseases:An Analysis of Indian and Global Status
Vikram Singh, Kajal Chakraborty, Lavina Vincent
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/725-732 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 725-732
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Understanding Relationship between Melt/Freeze Conditions Derived from Spaceborne Scatterometer and Field Observations at Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica during Austral Summer 2015-16
Rajashree V. Bothale, S. Anoop, V. V. Rao, V. K. Dadhwal, Y. V. N. Krishnamurthy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/733-742 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 733-742
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Channel Morphology and Hydraulic Geometry of River Kolong, Nagaon District, Assam, India:A Study from the Standpoint of River Restoration
Minakshi Bora, Dulal C. Goswami
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/743-751 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 743-751
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Dry Biomass Partitioning of Growth and Development in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Crop Using CERES-Wheat in Different Agro Climatic Zones of India
P. K. Singh, K. K. Singh, K. K. Gill, Ram Niwas, R. S. Singh, Sanjay Sharma
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/752-766 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 752-766
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Screening of Autochthonous Intestinal Microbiota as Candidate Probiotics Isolated from Four Freshwater Teleosts
Ankita Nandi, Goutam Banerjee, Suhas Kumar Dan, Pinki Ghosh, Koushik Ghosh, Arun Kumar Ray
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/767-773 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 767-773
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Research Communications

Offshore Wind to Meet Increasing Energy Demands in India
Satya Kiran Raju Alluri, Trishanu Shit, G. Dhinesh, Devender Gujjula, S. V. S. Phani Kumar, M. V. Ramana Murthy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/774-781 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 774-781
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Quantification of Carbon Stocks and Sequestration Potential through Existing Agroforestry Systems in the Hilly Kupwara District of Kashmir Valley in India
Ajit, A. K. Handa, S. K. Dhyani, G. M. Bhat, A. R. Malik, V. Dutt, T. H. Masoodi, Uma, Amit Jain
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/782-785 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 782-785
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Fusion of Ginseng Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase and Centella asciatica Squalene Synthase Involved in Triterpenoid Biosynthesis
Su Jin Jung, Young Chang Kim, Mei Lan Jin, Reinhard Jetter, Ok Tae Kim
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/785-790 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 785-790
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Optimization of Key Factors for Enhanced Fermentative Biohydrogen Production from Water Hyacinth by RSM
Veena Thakur, Mona Tandon, S. K. Jadhav
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/790-795 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 790-795
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Ionospheric Precursors Observed in TEC Due to Earthquake of Tamenglong on 3 January 2016
Sanjay Kumar, A. K. Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/795-801 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 795-801
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Book Reviews

Innovative Approaches in Drug Discovery:Ethnopharmacology, Systems Biology and Holistic Targeting
S. Chandrasekhar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/802-802 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 802-802
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The Planet Remade:How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Sudhirendar Sharma
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/803-803 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 803-803
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Personal News

Yash Pal (1926–2017)
R. Cowsik
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/804-807 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 804-807
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Pushpa Mittra Bhargava (1928-2017)
Durgadas P. Kasbekar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v113/i04/807-808 ,  Vol 113, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 807-808
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