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PROJECTANDVISITINGSTUDENTS Two students from Vishwakarma Institue of Technology are doing a project under the guidance of Prof J.Bagchi and Mr Jameer Manur.The project is about developing a cost effective control system for an optical telescope, which will be later implemented on a new 3m radio telescope. Four students from the same college did their summer internship in the lab on different small projects. Two M . S c . students from Kerala and one student from Pune under the guidance of Prof J oydeep Bagchi and Mr Pratik Dabhadeare working in the field of radio galaxies,where they are cataloging the radio galaxies found in the SDSS. Two students Indian Institute of Space science and Technology (IIST) visited RPL and learn about the working of a horn antenna and how to take observation of H1 line and analayse the data. Two students from Nanded University and four students from Jaipur also visited Lab and learn the radio astronomy techniques and observations using small radio telescope. SPECIALGUEST Well know actor and singer Ayushmann Khuranna had shown interest and promised to meet Prof. Joydeep Bagchi and team earlier after the discovery of the Saraswati galaxy supercluster. He visited IUCAA and Radio Physics Lab and interacted with Prof. Joydeep Bagchi, Prof. Somak Raychaudhaury and other team member. He is an astronomy enthusiast and he wanted know more about the discovery and other things going on in this field. AWARDS Best poster award 2018: General Relativity and Cosmology: Shishir Sankhyayan for the poster: Large Scale Structures in SDSS. ( 166 )