A new species of the genus, Isopsera: Isopsera arcuata Nagar, Mal, Swaminathan sp. nov. (Orthoptera:Phaneropteridae Burmeister, 1838; Phaneropterinae Burmeister, 1838) is described. The holotype (♂) was collected from South India: Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu). The geographical location had the following specifications: 12⁰58 N 77⁰35E 930MSL South India. The described species differs from the two clo...

Advisory Board Thomas B. Ferguson, USA Nobuo Hashimoto, Japan Laurence Klotz, Canada Nora Noni MacDonald, Canada Anand Malaviya, India Ana Marusic, Croatia V. Mohan, India Dan J. Ncayiyana, South Africa G. B. Parulkar, India David J. Pierson, USA Andrew P. Schachat, USA Shirish S. Sheth, India Michael Swash, UK P. N. Tandon, India Jim Thornton, UK Jean-Louis Vincent, Belgium Print ISSN 0022-385...

Grant Theron, Anil Pooran, Jonny Peter, Richard van Zyl-Smit, Hridesh Kumar Mishra, Richard Meldau, Greg Calligaro, Brian Allwood, Surendra Kumar Sharma, Rod Dawson, Keertan Dheda 3* Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Scien...

We show that Ambro–Kawamata’s non-vanishing conjecture holds true for a quasi-smooth WCI X which is Fano or Calabi-Yau, i.e. we prove that, if H is an ample Cartier divisor on X , then |H | is not empty. If X is smooth, we further show that the general element of |H | is smooth. We then verify Ambro–Kawamata’s conjecture for any quasi-smooth weighted hypersurface. We also verify Fujita’s freene...

Scrub typhus has been previously reported from north and eastern Indian states and areas such as Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, and Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It has also been known to be endemic in some parts of South India (Eastern and Western Ghats). However, no cases have ever been reported from the southern districts of West Bengal. Here, we report five cases of scrub t...

It is a privilege to be invited to The Australian National University. ANU has had a long association with India. Sir John Crawford, one of your former Chancellors, played a key role in the 1960s in making the green revolution possible in India, and we are grateful for that. Few institutions around the world have a centre dedicated to research on South Asia. This University has set an example b...

This study compares the blood pressure (BP) in young population of North India and South India. Age, height and sex specific BP was estimated for 6320 North Indian subjects aged 7-18 years and compared with BP values of South Indian subjects. North Indian boys and girls had lower diastolic BP (DBP) with no difference in systolic BP (SBP) than South Indian boys and girls between 7-12 years. Betw...

Big differences in the prevalence of peptic ulcer are known to exist in different parts of India. This paper reports a high incidence in Assam and records certain differences with peptic ulcers found in south India.

Ishita Gupta1, Astha Chaudhry2, Solanki Savita3, Arvind Shetti4 Oral Medicine and Radiology, South Australia; Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, SGT University, Budhera, Distt. Gurgaon (Haryana), India; Department of Preventive & Community Dentistry, PDM Dental College and Hospital, Distt. Gurgaon (Haryana), India; Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, K...

PURPOSE To describe the prevalence of cataract in older people in 2 areas of north and south India. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS Randomly sampled villages were enumerated to identify people aged ≥ 60 years. Of 7518 enumerated people, 78% participated in a hospital-based ophthalmic examination. METHODS The examination included visual acuity measurement, dila...