Defence Current Affairs Quiz: 4 November 2026

As was envisaged when the Agnipath Scheme began, a quarter of the Agniveers are offered regular employment in the Defence Forces on merit, and the Cabinet decision reaffirms that share.

Its team, led by Dr Abhishek Kumar of the Meta Optics Laboratory, used topological photonics to show terahertz waves crossing a deliberately engineered barrier while carrying data at 100 Gbit/s, with the work published in the journal Advanced Materials.

Rajnath Singh, as Defence Minister, gave the commemorative address at the dialogue in New Delhi and used it to argue that dependence among nations at sea should be made safer rather than abandoned, through diversified supply chains, dependable maritime infrastructure, better awareness of activity at sea and wider regional cooperation.

The camp run by the Armed Forces Medical Services at Rairangpur treated more than four thousand patients in all and carried out this many eye surgeries that restored sight, with every service given free of charge.

On the recommendations of the Indian Defence Forces, the Cabinet approved another engagement period of two years for the Agniveers who are not absorbed as regulars straight away, and the offer depends on each Agniveer being willing to take it.

The team designed a silicon photonic crystal whose structure mimics the honeycomb lattice of graphene, arranging triangular holes in a silicon slab so that terahertz waves travel along the boundary between two regions of the crystal.

The Raksha Mantri invoked this vision while reaffirming that India wants a maritime order that is open, inclusive and based on rules, and while stressing that the maritime future of the Indo-Pacific cannot be settled by any one country acting alone.

Operation DRISHTI is its initiative to take specialised eye care and advanced medical treatment to parts of the country that are poorly served, and the camp at Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha was the twelfth such effort.

The assessment carried out after four years of the Agnipath Scheme listed this among the scheme's salient achievements, along with a wider footprint of Agniveer recruitment across the districts of the country, a more standardised and transparent recruitment process, very high levels of physical fitness, morale, motivation, competitive spirit and…

Measurements across this band agreed closely with the simulations the team had run, and in the power splitter the two output signals were nearly identical, showing that the engineered barrier had little effect on transmission.

The Raksha Mantri described the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in that year, as a workable framework that advances cooperation at sea across seven interconnected areas, and he urged participants to turn the ideas raised at the dialogue into partnerships, projects and results that can be…

The release notes that the camp was conducted at the place the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, belongs to, in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, which added to the significance of the medical effort there.