Annual Report_Abridged - Second Version - FINAL

12 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS ShasvathKapadia ● ● SurhudMore ● J. V.Narlikar ● ● DurgeshTripathi ● ● Awarded the SERBStartupGrant, and the SERBMATRICSgrant. The following collaborative work with colleagues at ICTS-TIFR was selected as the Editor's Suggestion inPhysical ReviewLetters (PRL). Souvik Jana, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Parameswaran Ajith, Cosmography using strongly lensed gravitational waves frombinary black holes , arXiv:2211.12212, PRL, 130, 261401, (2023). Best paper award for 2023 by the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear two-point correlation functions with HSC survey first-year data. Takashi Hamana, et al. Publ AstronSoc Jpn (2020) 72 (1): 16, doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psz138. Rashtriya Gunakar Muley Award (2021) from the Madhya Pradesh Government, Culture Department, September 14, 2023. Fellowship of the Gwalior Academy of Mathematical Sciences, Gwalior, December 11, 2023. Vishal Upendran was the recipient of the K.D Abhyankar Best Thesis Presentation Award for his thesisHeating andDynamics of the Solar Atmosphere. Janmejoy Sarkar, Senior Research Fellow (SRF) of the Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Assam, was felicitated with the Distinguished Student Achiever Award 2023 for his contribution in developing the SUITmodule of India's spacemission ADITYA-L1.