To know the pattern of deaths in relation to the age, sex, pattern of injuries and cause of death in the unknown cases. Methods: In this prospective study, all unknown cases brought for autopsy at Patna Medical College, Patna between 1 st January to 31 st December were studied. Information regarding unclaimed bodies with regard to age, sex, cause and manner of death was sourced from the autopsy reports and the inquest papers of the investigating officers. Results: Out of 114 medicolegal autopsies done, 89(78.07%) were of male. Majority (24.5%) of unknown cases belong to 21-30 years age group. 71(62.28%) cases died unnaturally while 43 (37.72%) of the cases died naturally. Of all unnatural deaths, railway accident injuries was the most common (26.76%) cause of death. Among 43 natural deaths, in 22 (51.16%) cases, chest and abdominal diseases combined were responsible. Conclusions: The government should take initiative at large to prevent unnatural deaths. It is high time that law enforcement agencies should ensure and adopt the protocol of criminal investigation under provision of law and correlating with all concerned intermediary agencies like FSL, NHRC and others for concluding the cause and manner of unnatural deaths.

Objectives: To determine the predominant lip print type in the Bihar population of India. Methods: In this cross -sectional study, 200 subjects of both sex (100 males and 100 females) aged between 25-40 years whose family origins were from Bihar were studied. Young adults without any disease related to lips, with normal lip mucosa were included in the study. The present study evaluates the pattern of lip print patterns among males and females and the findings of the study are compared with the available data. Results: Out of the 200 lipprint patterns studied, Type I (34.5%) were the most common pattern followed by Type IV (26%) and Type V (4%) being the least common pattern. In males, Type IV, Type I and Type II were 44 %, 27% and 3% respectively while in females Type I were 42%, Type I' were 24% and Type V were 4%. Conclusions: No two individuals have similar lip print impressions. Lip prints are unique to individuals and may help in personal identification. Further studies with larger sample size are required to establish that lip prints are unique like finger prints and can be used as a tool for identification in medicolegal cases.

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Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the world leading natural fiber crop on which the textile industry worldwide is largely based on. Cotton occupies a pivotal position in the Indian economy. Cotton is infested by a large number of insect pests right from the sowing till harvest. Sucking pests cause significant damage to cotton and it is estimated that 22.58 per cent of cotton yield is effected by sucking pests. Among the key pests of cotton the Sap-sucking pests viz., aphid (Aphis gossypii), whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), Jassids (Amrasca biguttula) and thrips (Thrips tabaci) cause severe damage and serious threat to the crop at early stage of the crop growth and can also affect the crop stand and yield of cotton. With the onset of monoculture-driven modern agriculture, selective pressure on insects to overcome resistances has dramatically increased. Therefore plant breeders have resorted to high-tech tools to continuously create new insect-resistant crops. An alternative to transgenic approaches is the use of wild relatives of crop plants, searching for desirable traits and then crossing those into the elite cultivars. Such plant breeding has been made substantially easier with the availability of novel sequence-based molecular approaches. Two Recombinant cotton inbred lines (RIL'S) were derived by wide hybridization from wild relatives, which were used to obtain near Iso-genic lines (NIL's) for the sucking pest resistant trait. The objectives of the present study are to develop and validate molecular markers linked to sucking pest resistance by next generation sequencing. A total number of 3450 mapped SSR markers across all 26 chromosomes were used to screen and identify markers linked to the trait of interest. We are also using Next generation sequencing approaches to identify and develop SNP based markers for sucking pest resistance in our cotton lines.Citation: Sridhar, V., Reddy, P.S., Reddy, S.S., Satihal, M.B., Prasad, M.S., Kumar, V.R. and Kumar, P.S. Development and validation of molecular markers for sucking pest resistance in Cotton [Abstract]. In:

Method: AFBC taken between 2005 and 2010 were identified from microbiology laboratory databases. Charts were reviewed for gender, age, medical history, risk factors for AM, pathogen types, and treatments with statistical comparison using Pear-sonX2. Benefit of "targeted AFBC" for cases with high clinical suspicion was compared with "customary AFBC" in OR.Results: Thirty-one patients were identified with AM, of which 10 had one or more risk factors for AM, including foreign body (n = 4), non-HIV immune dysfunction (n = 4), and previous chemo-radiation (n = 4). Six different AM species were identified: most frequently M abscessus (50%), followed by M aviumintracellulare complex (20%) and M chelonae (17%). "Targeted AFBC" from outpatient setting were positive in 10 out of 190 (5.3%), whereas 10 out of 393 (2.5%) of "customary AFBC" in OR were positive (P = .09). Macrolide therapy was employed in 16 out of 31 (52%) patients with AM-associated CRS but was not prescribed in patients with positive "customary AFBC" alone.Conclusion: AM-associated CRS is an uncommon condition that can occur in the absence of foreign body or overtly altered innate/adaptive immunity. Management with macrolide therapy, as well as the potential relationships between existence of AM in tap water, AM biofilms, and frequent nasal irrigations, warrant further investigation in refractory CRS.