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- Indian Navy’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) Abhedya at INS Shivaji was inaugurated by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba to help train personnel of naval ships fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) detection and protection systems. INS Shivaji is the Indian Navy’s premier technical training facility which was commissioned as HMIS Shivaji in 1945. INS Shivaji is celebrating 2019-20 as the ‘Platinum Jubilee Year’.
- Third Installment of the Joint Naval Exercise of India and Australia AUSINDEX will be held off the coast of Vishakhapatnam from April 2 to 16, 2019 with a focus on anti-submarine warfare, as part of efforts to ramp up bilateral naval cooperation in the strategic Indian Ocean region. The biennial exercise was conducted for the first time in 2015.
- World Economic Forum (WEF) released the Global Energy Transition index 2019 report. The index compares the energy sectors of 115 countries and analyses their readiness for energy transition. Sweden has topped the index and is followed by Switzerland and Norway in the top three. Among the Asian Countries, Malaysia is ranked highest at 31st. India was ranked 82nd in the index.
- The consortium of State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Bharat PetroResources Ltd (BPRL), Urja Bharat Pte Ltd has acquired an oil block in Abu Dhabi, where the two will invest USD 170 million. Urja Bharat Pte Ltd has been awarded 100 per cent stake in the Abu Dhabi Onshore Block 1 Concession. Both IOC and BPRL hold 50 per cent each in Urja Bharat Pte Ltd.
Sharda Peeth - Pakistan government has approved a proposal to establish a corridor which would allow Hindu pilgrims from India to visit Sharda Peeth in the region of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). Sharda Peeth Corridor will be the second corridor to be established after the Kartarpur Corridor which provides access to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Pakistan.
- Chandrayaan-2, the second moon mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will be carrying laser retroreflector arrays that allow scientists to make accurate measurements of the distance to the Moon, owned by the US space agency NASA. Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft will be launched onboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-3 in April 2019.
- India and Bangladesh will start a cruise service from 29 March, 2019 that would take passengers through the Sunderbans to Dhaka to strengthen inland waterway routes between the two countries. As movement of goods starts using inland waterways, so goods from India can go in the cheapest possible form up to Narayanganj and Dhaka in Bangladesh.
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