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The platform reports percentile values worked out from tests that users have carried out in a given area. P50 is the median: half the tests recorded a speed at or above it.

TRAI launched the Network Anubhav Platform as a geospatial and analytical dashboard that brings together test data sent in by users through its MySpeed and MyCall apps and the results of its own independent drive tests, and that also opens a web interface for Do Not Disturb services.

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…

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.

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.

Of the total outlay of Rs 3,788.04 crore, the Central share of Rs 2,353.15 crore is funded from the Nirbhaya Fund, while the States and Union Territories contribute Rs 1,434.89 crore in line with the funding pattern for centrally sponsored schemes.

The extended scheme provides for the operationalisation of 850 Fast Track Special Courts across participating States and Union Territories, which is an expansion from the 779 that are functional at present.

The Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Fast Track Special Courts, exclusive POCSO courts included, for a further five years with this total outlay.

Battery Energy Storage System projects seeking support under the scheme must satisfy a minimum Domestic Content Requirement of 40 per cent.

The scheme envisages 60 GWh of hydro Pumped Storage Plant capacity, 30 GWh of Battery Energy Storage System capacity and 2 GWh of capacity through alternative energy storage technologies, which add up to the headline figure of 92 GWh.

The Union Cabinet cleared the Viability Gap Funding Scheme for Development of Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems with this amount of support for the period FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.

It forms the third component of VISTAR and will be undertaken by MoSPI together with the States and Union Territories.

Under the component called Comprehensive Statistical Operations and Strengthening of Ecosystem, the ministry proposes to conduct 59 surveys during the 16th Finance Commission cycle.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, cleared this central sector scheme of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for the period FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31 with an outlay of Rs 4,371.10 crore.

Selection runs in two stages. In the first, applications are examined for technical qualification, and only applicants who clear that stage may take part in the second stage of financial bidding.

The scheme funds four critical mineral processing plants in all. Two of them process nickel and each must have a minimum capacity of 50 kt, while the other two process lithium and each must have a minimum capacity of 30 kt.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the Capex Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing with exactly this outlay, spread across five years from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.

Besides revising the numerical limits, the draft adopts the World Health Organization position that the detection of any microbial growth in a Grade A area must itself set off an investigation, rather than being measured against a permitted level and passed over.

A Grade A area is described as the critical zone of a sterile medicine plant, the place where a product still lies open, where containers are handled, and where components that have already been sterilised are dealt with before the product is closed and sealed.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the revised limits for microbial contamination in Grade A clean areas are being drawn from the World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 1044, and specifically from its Annexure 2, which carries Good Manufacturing Practices for sterile pharmaceutical products.