The book focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing science and technological research in India in the second decade of the 21st century. In particular, developments in the Bio-, Nano- and Geosciences are reported, covering topics as varied as the Natural Nano-Machines of Life: A Biological Route to Nanotechnology, River Response to Climate Change, Ethics in Public Domain: Biomedical Research and Beyond, Arsenicosis and the Arsenic Selenium Connection, Pharmacoscintigraphic evaluation of Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Systems and many more. This volume highlights the state of the art of Indian research.