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The IUCAA Centre for Astronomy Research and Development (ICARD) initiated its activities in the Department of Physics, University of Calicut, Kozhikode, by joining hands with the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, to conduct the Astronomy Congress - 2019, during April 27-28, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of first landing on the Moon. The fully residential programme, hosted about 150 participants including over 100 students from schools in the districts of Kozhkode and Malappuram. The Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, K. Mohammed Basheer inaugurated the congress. Soon after, the participants were split into 3 parallel groups to Astronomy Congress - 2019 conduct day time astronomy experiments, which were to find due north, to understand the precession of the Earth, observation of the Sun, and to mimic eclipses. There were demonstrations and presentations by K. Pappootty, P. T. Ramachandran, Jiji Varghese, V. V. Manikandan, C. Subramanian, P. Sajin, Ilyas Perumbilam, Ananthamurthy, P. Sudhir, A. Sreedharan, and Ravikumar C.D. In addition, a night sky watch was also conducted. Ravikumar C.D. was the coordinator of the congress. | KHAG L | No. 119 - JULY 2019 | 06 Colloquia 13.05.2019 : Luca Cortese on Galaxy transformation in the local Universe. 17.06.2019: Sunil Kumar on Laboratory astrophysics using radio-frequency ion traps. Seminars 03.04.2019: Pratyush Pranav on Algebraic topology and its application to cosmological data sets. 24.04.2019: Sambaran Banerjee on Star clusters: A versatile laboratory for astrophysical phenomena. 15.05.2019: Mukul Bhattacharya on Source properties and spatial distribution of fast radio bursts.