Centre updates its Agnipath scheme!!

Announces 2 year extension for the remaining 75 percent agniveers whose job don't become permanent!!

Now the total tenure of the Agniveers in the Defence Forces is of 6 years instead of the initial 4 years!!

#policy #defence

MAJOR UPDATE ON AGNIVEER SCHEME: NEW PATHWAY TO PERMANENT SERVICE

Under the revised framework, eligible and willing Agniveers will have a pathway towards permanent enrolment as soldiers, sailors or airmen, subject to medical fitness, disciplinary records and assessment criteria.

Key conditions in the updated scheme:

🔘After 4 Years: The top 25% of Agniveers will be eligible for absorption into the regular cadre.

🔘 Two-Year Extension: Other willing Agniveers will have the opportunity to extend their service by another two years.

🔘After 6 Years: Those completing the extended tenure will also be eligible for regular cadre enrolment, with the same seniority as their batchmates.

🔘Exit Benefits: Agniveers choosing not to continue will receive their Seva Nidhi package, with enhanced benefits following the six-year tenure.

AGNIVEER INFORMATION PORTAL HAS ALSO BEEN LAUNCHED

A dedicated information portal has also been launched to provide guidance on service-related matters, post-service opportunities, education and career planning.

🌐 Portal: https://www.agniveerguide.com/index.html

🎤 Ask USTAAD: https://www.agniveerguide.com/chat.html


#policy #defence

When you can't use STARLINK to stop regime change in Texas.

#meme

India is building its critical minerals value chain at home.

The Union Cabinet has approved the ₹2,814 crore Capex Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing, a 30% capital subsidy for plants that refine lithium, cobalt, nickel into high-purity compounds in India.

#minerals #industry
Link: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2332476&reg=48&lang=1

▪️Union Cabinet approves Rs.14,500 crore Viability Gap Funding Scheme for development of 92 GWh Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems.

▪️Scheme to support 30 GWh Battery Energy Storage Systems, 60 GWh Pumped Storage Projects and 2 GWh emerging storage technologies

#battery #energy #infra

India could get its fifth S-400 system from Russia early next year

The last of the five S-400 systems contracted by the Narendra Modi government in 2018 at a cost of $5.43 billion is expected to reach India in January-February, according to government officials aware of the development.

A pre-dispatch team will visit Russia in December ahead of the delivery. Parts will likely begin arriving in January, the officials added. Earlier reports suggested the system could reach India in November.

#defence

📰Source - Hindustan Times

India’s #cybersecurity agency, CERT-In, has secured access to Anthropic’s restricted frontier #AI model Claude Mythos to test its ability to detect and potentially exploit system vulnerabilities, government sources said.

The model is being tested in a controlled environment without access to external digital systems.

It is being used to identify vulnerabilities and recommend fixes.

A senior official said CERT-In preferred a closed-door setup to avoid sharing sensitive information through cloud services.

CERT-In is also using other AI models that deliver approximately 80% to 85% of Mythos’s capabilities.

https://t.co/pB6eZ2W12L

🇮🇳 India unveils three indigenous #AI models under IndiaAI Mission.

🤖 Soket Labs launches 26.3 billion parameter EKA-1.

💻 ZenteiQ releases Dhīr 2B and 5B open-source models.

https://t.co/bx5wisNx0y

India and Kazakhstan Sign Extradition Treaty

Kazakhstan and India signed an extradition treaty in early November 2026 to strengthen cooperation against international crime and terrorism. Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General Berik Assylov and India’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Y.K. Sailas Thangal, signed the document.

Scope and legal framework -

The treaty establishes a framework for extraditing people sought for criminal prosecution or to serve court sentences. It complements existing agreements on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and the transfer of sentenced persons.

#policy #foreignaffairs

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Republican Party suffers major Electoral Defeat in the latest Mid-term Election losing 9 Incumbent Seats in the Upper House (Senate).

This includes traditional Red States like (Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina) which have been Voting for the Republicans for multiple decades.

Senate 🔵 56 D – 44 R 🟥

#InternationalNews

Interesting all Major Republicans who were openly Racist towards Indians or wanted to impose Sanctions on India for buying Russian #Oil have been defeated across the United States.

P.S. – The Democrats are no saints.

Brent Crude #Oil crashed below $95

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meets Nepal PM PM Balendra Shah in Kathmandu. #MEA

Chairman of Tata Sons, Tata Motors, N. Chandrasekaran meets Italian PM Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi, residence of the prime minister of Italy.

Gujarat has relaxed school regulations, recognising #education as a business under its Ease of Doing Business policy.

No mandatory playground on campus. No 15-year lease requirement. No affiliation certificate at the application stage. More flexibility in infrastructure and operations.

🚨 Ahmedabad-based PierSight has successfully integrated and tested the structural qualification model of their first commercial SAR + AIS satellite, Varuna 2.0.

The company’s long-term goal is to build a 32-satellite constellation for persistent maritime surveillance. This is part of PierSight’s main philosophy of building Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems tailored to specific applications across sectors such as maritime, Earth observation, and more.

Use cases of the Varuna constellation include:

- EEZ surveillance
- Maritime insurance
- Illegal fishing monitoring
- Oil spill/dumping detection
- ⁠Identifying ship movements and patterns

#Space #Startups

Centre to set up panel to revisit UGC equity regulations, Supreme Court told

The Union government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it is contemplating setting up a committee to reconsider the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) 2026 equity regulations, which the court stayed in January over concerns that their vague provisions could be misused and have “dangerous impacts” on society.

"Why don’t you revisit these regulations so that the next generation is taken care of? They should protect the interest of every student,” the bench told solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union government.

#policy #judiciary


📰Source - ANI

Update on the missile test!!

#defence #aatmanirbharbharat