The Department has a strong group in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. This is reflected in both teaching and research publications. In order to strengthen the training of students in observational Astronomy, the observing facility at the Department has been upgraded with the purchase of a 11 inch Celestron telescope and a 9.25 inch Celestron telescope together with back-end instruments like a SBIG ST7 CCD Camera and an OPTEC SSP3A stellar Photometer A 3.5 meter Observatory has been imported from Sirius Observatories and has been installed and the observational Astronomy lab has been integrated with the MSc syllabus.