Oman has signed an agreement with USA which allows USA’s ships and warplanes to take advantage of Oman’s ports and airports.

The global average percentage of women commercial pilots stands at 5.4%.

Apple Inc & Goldman Sachs Group Inc jointly launched the Apple Card credit card for iPhones. Apple card is a virtual credit card that can be integrated into the Wallet app of the iPhone.

In Shooting, Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary have won a Gold medal in the 10-meter Air Pistol Mixed team event at the 12th Asian Airgun Championship at Taoyuan in Taipei.

Following a decades-long process of reconstructing its skeleton, Tyrannosaurus rex discovered is the world’s biggest. It was discovered in western Canada in 1991. The T. rex was 13 meters (yards) long & probably weighed more than 8,800 kilos.

The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has recently developed an anti cancer anti-inflamatory drug conjugated to the human serum Albumin. It is an intravenous delivery system, enabling 100 fold increase in drug bio-availability and is a mix of human serum albumin and a plant based drug. This combination is the first of its kind as human albumin which is more compatible to the human body is being used. Clinical trials in humans have to be completed and results assessed as the ensuing steps towards commercialisation. The institute has also developed the technology of isothermal based DNA amplification device to detect TB bacterium in sputum samples in less than 30 minutes. Nearly 2-3 million people are infected with Tuberculosis and the prevalence of totally drug resistant TB (TDR-TB) is very high in India. The TB screening device employs a nucleic acid amplification technique to detect TB in less than 30 minutes with high specificity and without false positives. It can simultaneously screen 20 patient samples in one assay and at considerably lower cost than the existing devices ( costs approx Rs 2500/ sample). The device will also help in mass screening of population of people for TB at a substantially low cost.

India has moved up two places to rank 76th on a global energy transition index 2019. This annual list, compiled by Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF), has ranked 115 economies on how well they are able to balance energy security and access with environmental sustainability and affordability. Sweden remains on the top on this annual list and is followed by Switzerland and Norway in the top three. Among major economies, the UK is ranked 7th, Singapore 13th, Germany 17th, Japan 18th and the US 27th. Within Asia, Malaysia is ranked highest at 31st, Sri Lanka is 60th, Bangladesh 90th and Nepal 93rd. The report said that India is amongst the countries with high pollution levels and has a relatively high CO2 intensity in its energy system. Despite this, India has made significant strides to improve energy access in recent years, and currently scores well in the area of regulation and political commitment towards energy transition. The report suggested there was a ground for optimism regarding India despite the current outdated energy system not being ready for the transition because an enabling environment is being built to support the future transition.

On March 27, 2019, India successfully conducted an Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test, code named as ‘Mission Shakti’, from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out the testing of Ballistic Missile, Defence Interceptor Missile by shooting down a satellite parked at low earth orbit at a distance of 300 kilometres from the earth.

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have won the 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing”.

China’s State Council Information Office on issued a white paper on democratic reform and the leap of development in Tibet over the past six decades on March 26, 2019. White paper titled “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years On” claims that democratic reform in Tibet is the greatest and most profound social transformation in the history of Tibet.

Facebook is putting in place a response team for India’s general elections for monitoring and tracking of objectionable content in real time round the clock, a top official at the social network said. The election response team will be based in Singapore and will work closely with the Election Commission of India.

On 25th March 2019 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed 5-member committee under the chairmanship of Nandan Nilekani to strengthen digital payments as well as to boost financial inclusion through Financial Technology.It will provide recommendations in 3 months.The decision regarding the formation of committee was taken during the first event of Financial Technology (Fintech) Conclave, which was organized by NITI Aayog in New Delhi.The purpose of the event was to shape India’s predominance in FinTech, build the future strategy and policy to uplift the financial inclusion.With the revolution in the FinTech sector India’s aim is to emerge as a 10 trillion dollar economy.Financial technology, popularly known as FinTech, is the new technology and innovation to make financial services more accessible for the common people. Mobile banking, internet banking, digital payment are examples of Financial technologies.

The 105m deep India’s deepest shaft cave has been discovered at Krem Um Ladaw in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya during the 28th edition of the annual ‘Caving in the Abode of the Clouds Expedition’. The cave system has fossils of dinosaurs, especially the Mosasaurus, a giant reptile that lived 66-76 million years ago.

A consortium of two Indian oil companies, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, and Indian Oil Corporation Limited has been awarded the exploration rights for Abu Dhabi’s Onshore Block 1. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed agreements awarding the exploration rights.

The Indian Navy’s state of the art Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) was inaugurated by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba at INS Shivaji, Lonavala. The training facility has been named ABHEDYA, which means impenetrable in Sanskrit.

The train system runs above and below ground. It stretches from the central Hotel Indonesia to the southern reaches of some 30 million people.

Indian Navy’s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette INS Kadmatt will also take part in LIMA 2019. INS Kadmatt is the second ship of Project 28 (P28) class. India will also showcase its indigenous supersonic Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Tejas