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The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research told the meeting that the forty-fifth Indian Antarctic Expedition involved ninety-five members, and it also reported the sixteenth Indian Arctic Expedition, glacier monitoring in the Himalayas and scientific work in the Southern Ocean.

The annual reports and audited accounts for 2025-26 of five constituent institutions were placed before the council: the National Institute of Ocean Technology, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the National Centre for Polar…

The briefing to Dr Jitendra Singh said Indian aquanauts dived to 4,025 metres and 5,002 metres during an Indo-French expedition aboard this submersible, which marked a notable advance in India’s crewed deep-sea capability.

MATSYA-6000 is India’s human submersible under the Deep Ocean Mission and is depth-rated for six thousand metres, as the Ministry of Earth Sciences confirmed at the Earth System Sciences Council meeting of 10 November 2026.

Dr Mangi Lal Jat proposed establishing the centre there, and separately proposed stronger research collaboration with the Indian Institute of Millets Research at Hyderabad, which is why option B is a near miss rather than the answer: the Hyderabad institute is the research partner and the route for market linkage…

The meeting at Bhubaneswar on 10 November 2026 appreciated Odisha’s work in conserving indigenous millet diversity, pointing in particular to the one hundred and sixty-three documented landraces of finger millet in the state.

Dr Mangi Lal Jat highlighted the success of this Odisha campaign and said it had the potential to become a national model for transforming agriculture around millets.

Addressing the two-day national event at Bhubaneswar on 10 November 2026, the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Dr Mangi Lal Jat, proposed expanding Odisha’s millet area from 1.79 lakh hectares at present to five lakh hectares by 2047, with production reaching eight lakh metric tonnes.

The ministry said the new AIIMS had collectively recorded over six crore outpatient consultations in the five-year period since 2021-22, as on that date, and it also gave the running figure of 97.41 lakh outpatients for the current year 2026-27 up to October 2026.

The year-wise series released by the ministry runs 50.03 lakh in 2021-22, 77.95 lakh in 2022-23, 100.52 lakh in 2023-24, 129.98 lakh in 2024-25 and 144.96 lakh in 2025-26.

The ministry’s statement of 10 November 2026 says twenty-two new AIIMS have been approved in various phases of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, and of these eighteen are fully functional.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on 10 November 2026 that the new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences created under this scheme had crossed six crore outpatient consultations since 2021-22.

Learning from the first phase, the department removed the condition that an applicant had to cross a stated level of sales before claiming the incentive, and it also trimmed the minimum investment requirement.

Applicants may set up plants in any of four target segments: medical consumables, disposables and implants; critical components; high-end devices whose domestic manufacture is still at an early stage; and high-end devices that are at present only assembled in the country.

That is the amount the Department of Pharmaceuticals said would be used for the new round of the scheme, which has been extended to 2035-36 and is being described as PLI-MD 2.0.

While inviting fresh applications on 10 November 2026, the Department of Pharmaceuticals said the medical devices PLI scheme had been carried forward to that year, with an outlay of about Rs 2,700 crore available for the new round and an online portal due to open within ten days.

The inauguration took place at Sonia Vihar, and the service was developed along the reach of the river running up to Jagatpur, with a round trip of roughly six kilometres for each sailing.

While announcing the Yamuna cruise, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways recalled that this vessel holds the Limca Book of Records entry for the longest river cruise anywhere, having sailed more than 3,200 km across India and Bangladesh while touching fifty tourist destinations, two countries, five states and twenty-seven…

The cruise runs a single electric vessel with seating for thirty passengers, taking visitors on a round trip of about six kilometres along the Sonia Vihar-Jagatpur reach of the river.

The Yamuna carries this number under the National Waterways Act, 2016, and the recreational cruise service opened in Delhi on 10 November 2026 is the first step towards using the river for leisure navigation in the capital.