Dr. Biswajit Pathak (Ramanujan Fellow, Physics) received the Most Popular Activity Award for outstanding contribution as an Event Officer of the Holography and Diffractive Optics Technical Group, OPTICA – one of the world’s leading Optics and Photonics Society.

Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Thiruvananthapuram and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UAS-D) on 12th November 2025 for sharing expertise and conducting experiments specific to the project ‘Spaceflight induced changes in kidney stone formation in Drosophila melanogaster’ which will carry fruit flies onboard Gaganyaan developmental flight as planned by ISRO. MoU document was signed by Prof.