I take great pleasure in convening the 65th Research Council meeting of CSIR-NML. It is a privilege to welcome our chairman Shri H M Nerurkar and the other esteemed Research Council members for this meeting. It is for about two years now that this Research Council has been functional and I should say that we have made remarkable progress during this period and I wish to thank the Research Council especially its chairman for the unstinting support and guidance in steering this laboratory in the right direction. I will briefly showcase our performance. It would also be appropriate to bring to the attention of the august Research Council, the feedbacks received from the various Project Review Committees, the CAG audit on the performance in the...