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Sarbananda Sonowal told port employees that Visakhapatnam Port had handled this record quantity of cargo in the 2025-26 financial year, roughly 10 per cent more than the year before, and that it was the port's fourth consecutive year of growth.

The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, dedicated the new waterfront promenade at Visakhapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh and on the same day laid foundation stones for four fresh works that together come to about Rs 560 crore.

On the margins of the conference Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani held meetings with delegations from these three countries, and the discussions covered cross-border cyber fraud, the security of digital infrastructure and cooperation in quantum technology.

In his address the minister listed 100 use-case labs for 5G among India's efforts, describing them as building talent for the future alongside affordable AI computing, AI models in Indian languages and quantum research hubs.

The minister described these centres, which have won the WSIS Prize, as places where villagers can access healthcare, agricultural advice, banking and government certificates.

The International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference, referred to as PP-26, is being held in Doha, and India was represented there by Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani.

Over the previous five years the main observance of Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas moved between places: Ranchi in 2021, Khunti in 2022 and again in 2023, Jamui in 2024 and Dediapada in 2025.

On Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, over 300 projects for tribal communities will be taken up across states, of which 228 are ready for inauguration and 74 are for foundation stone laying.

Developed with ICMR, it is described as India's first platform for tribe-disaggregated health data and it covers 20 States.

The Government of India designated 15 November as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas in 2021 to mark his birth anniversary and to honour the contribution of tribal heroes to India's freedom struggle.

The opening ceremony of the exercise was held on board INS Rana on 10 November 2026, marking the formal start of the bilateral engagement.

The eighth edition of the India-Myanmar Naval Exercise is being held at Visakhapatnam from 10 to 14 November 2026, and the Myanmar Navy ship UMS King Sin Phyu Shin arrived at that port on 10 November 2026 for it.

IMNEX stands for the India-Myanmar Naval Exercise, and the edition now in progress is the eighth. It is being conducted at Visakhapatnam from 10 to 14 November 2026.

During the harbour phase of the exercise, specialist teams of the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman held Subject Matter Expert Exchanges on three areas of common interest: Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Mine Countermeasure Operations and Hydrography.

The sea phase of the exercise featured joint activity between Indian Naval Ship Surat and the Royal Navy of Oman vessel Al-Mu'azzar, including Visit, Board, Search and Seizure drills and cross-deck operations that gave crews of both navies practice in coordinated procedures.

Naseem Al Bahr, which translates as Sea Breeze, is the bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman, and the edition just completed is the fifteenth.

Under the rationalised Medical Visa framework, treatment under AYUSH systems is covered by the M-3 visa, while M-1 covers medical treatment other than AYUSH.

The e-Visa is processed through electronic travel authorisation and is presently available to nationals of 172 countries.

The erstwhile Tourist Visa is now called the Visitor Visa, a change made because the category permits a far wider set of purposes than conventional tourism.

On 27 August 2026 the Ministry of Home Affairs reduced the main visa categories from 13 to nine, and the sub-categories from 49 to 23.