🇮🇳🤝🇴🇲 Outcomes from PM Modi's Oman visit

Trade Agreement (CEPA)
Maritime Heritage
Agriculture & Millets
Higher Education
Joint Vision Document on Maritime Cooperation

#Geopolitics

Odisha is quietly building a #semiconductor story!

🔹 ₹400 Cr Semiconductor Centre of Excellence (CoE) to be set up at IIT Bhubaneswar
🔹 India’s first compound semiconductor fab coming up in Bhubaneswar
🔹 2 semiconductor projects with total investment of ~₹4,000 Cr

From minerals to microchips, Odisha is moving up the value chain.

Foreign State Civilian Honours to PM Modi

P.S. – USA "Legion of Merit" is a Military Honour

#ForeignPolicy

BREAKING:

🇨🇳 The monopoly is over

China has succeeded in producing an ultraviolet lithography machine for the production of advanced chips - Reuters

China built a prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machine in Shenzhen, the tool needed for the most advanced chipmaking, Reuters reports.

Until now, ASML is the only company that has truly cracked EUV technology.

Its machines cost about $250 million each and are critical for making the most advanced chips designed by Nvidia and AMD, and manufactured by TSMC, Intel, and Samsung.

The result marks the payoff of a 6-year government program focused on semiconductor independence.

People compared it to China’s version of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. wartime program that built the atomic bomb.

Sources describe former ASML engineers helping reverse engineer parts of the system, and Huawei coordinating a wider effort across labs and suppliers.

China wants the United States 100% kicked out of its supply chains. #semiconductor #InternationalNews

Union Cabinet Minister for #Environment is here to do damage control.

#SaveAravali

https://x.com/i/status/2001651498057658767

India’s Former Navy Chief Admiral R. Hari Kumar conferred Japan's ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ from the Ambassador of Japan to India on behalf of the Emperor, at a reception for Japan Self-Defense Forces Day 2025 in New Delhi. #ForeignAffairs

Indian Assistant High Commission in Chattogram under attack by Radical Mob in Bangladesh #IndianSubcontinent

Report: Indian Army setting up large military base near Indo-Bangladesh border in Mizoram. GoC of 17 Mountain strike corps set to survey the area.
Meanwhile, BSF also has long-term plans to build several in-land defensive structures, including bunkers, artificial embankments, blast-proof shelters and underground armouries in three battalion command areas in Silchar under the Silchar and Mizoram frontier. #Defence

Photos of Bill Gates with one of Epstein's victims released today in the Epstein files.

#Exports #Trade 🇮🇳🤝🇴🇲

Bill Passed in Week Two & Three of the Winter Session of #Parliament

1. The Health Security se National Security Cess Bill, 2025

2. The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025

3. The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025

4. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025

5. The Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB—G RAM G) Bill, 2025

Winter Session of #Parliament Concludes, Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha adjourned till Sine Die