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203 4. Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay has been nominated as a Statistical Expert in task force committee for big data science in astrophysics, Government of India, 2017. 5. Surajit Chattopadhay was awarded the IAU Travel Grant (Partly), and INSA - ICSU Travel Grant (Partly), to participate in the IAU Symposium 324: New Frontiers in Black HoleAstrophysics at Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, The Republic of Slovenia, May 2016. 6. Sarbari Guha was felicitated by St. Xavier's College, Kolkata on completion of 25 years of her service, January 2017. 7. BadamSinghKushvah was presented Canara Bank Research PublicationAward, ISMDhanbad, 2016. 8. Badam Singh Kushvah has been sanctioned a grant for the project, titled "Efficient trajectory design for space missions", by SERB, Department of Science andTechnology, Government of India. 9. Anirudh Pradhan was awarded the Bharat Ratna Dr. Abdul Kalam Gold Medal, during the 38th National Unity Conference on Individual Achievements and National Development at Bengaluru, by the Global Economic Progress and ResearchAssociation, October 2016. 10. T.R. Seshadri (with Hum Chand as the Co-PI) has been sanctioned a grant for the project, titled "Magnetic fields as probes of astrophysical phenomena", by SERB, Department of Science andTechnology, Government of India.