are only 34 cases more reported from different parts of India and one from Burma. Out of the 34 cases 12 were seen in Southern India (Guntur 4, Vizagapatam 8), one in Poona, 16 in the Punjab (Lahore 1, Kangra District 15) and 5 in Calcutta. Napier (1939) reports that they encounter 6 to 12 cases a year in the outdoor clinic of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. No cases have yet been rep...

I must congratulate the organizers for choosing this important topic for deliberation in this seminar. I have great pleasure in mentioning that the theme of the Report on Currency and Finance 2004-05, prepared by the staff of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is also that of evolution of Central Banking in India (RBI, 2005a). In going through the process of compilation of the Report, I have foun...

Although sickle cell anemia in India is believed to have a mild clinical presentation, few studies report severe disease in many patients from central India. Hence, we have retrospectively studied 316 children with SCA who were followed up for a period of 5.8±5.7 years. There were 55.4 blood transfusions, 43.3 episodes of vaso-occlusive crises requiring hospitalization, and 108.9 hospitalizatio...

a YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE), VHS Hospital Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India b Lab-based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL-RCMP), Ipoh, Malaysia c Center of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia d Division of Infection Biology, Department of Life Scien...

Novel Surgical Technique for Discogenic Cauda Equina Syndrome Transforaminal Intra Discal Access by Annulotomy outside Central Spinal Canal Sreedharan Namboothiri PE1*, Satishchandra Gore2 and Poorana Raja3 1Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon and Director of Spine Fellowships, Kovai Medical Centre and Hospitals, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641014, India 2Spine endoscopic surgeon Pune India 3Spine...

Debtanu Barman1*, Phanna Nen2, Sagar C Mandal3 and Vikash Kumar4 1Center for Aquaculture Research and Development (CARD), St. Xavier’s Vocational Training Center, Don Bosco, Bishramganj, Tripura, India 2Fishery Officer, Freshwater Aquaculture research & Development Center, Cambodia 3College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, Lembucherra, Tripura, India 4Central Institute of Fisherie...

Gurmeet Singh, Rita Chauhan, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan, M. Balakrishna Prasad and AL. Ramanathan* School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, India Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi 110 068, India School of Earth, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Central University of Bihar, Patna 800 014, India Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center...