This Letter was about the M. K. Vainu Bappu's reprimand by the Hyderabad government for not adhering to his research on "Photoelectric Photometry of Eclipsing Variables".

This item was about nuclear astrophysics and one of its accomplished practitioners, Bhaskar Dutta of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, who passed away at the early age of fifty in Bangalore. The item also speaks of his remarkable achievements in nuclear physics. During his journey in the US for education and research and subsequent to his return from abroad, he started working in TIFR, followed by IIA, Bangalore.

This item was about Bhaskar Dutta's death at his residence, shantinagar in Bangalore on Friday night. It also speaks on his early education in Copenhagen, New York, Italy, before returning to India in 1978. He moved to the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in 1982. He specialised in neutron stars and pulsars.