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  • UP to 23rd August 2018
  • first ever Indian female shooter to win gold in the history of Asian Games - Rahi Sarnobat
  • first-ever joint air exercise IAF and RMAF has commenced in - Malaysia
  • country has unveiled its first domestic fighter jet Kowsar - Iran
  • first Indian Woman Wrestler To Bag Gold At Asian Games - Vinesh Phogat
  • India’s 1st Genetic Bank For Wildlife Conservation has Inaugurated - Hyderabad
  • first state to provide Right to Skill's Development to the youth - Chhattisgarh
  • india's first tribal language to get own wikipedia Edition - Santhali
  • world's first mission to touch the sun launched by - NASA
  • country has emerged as the top source of inward remittances of india - UAE
  • first Muslim woman to be elected to the parliament US - Rashida Tlaib
  • first European Tour title at the Fiji International winner - Gaganjeet Bhullar
  • world's largest bird sculpture will be inaugurated in - Kerala
  • indian state has inaugurated the world’s first thermal battery plant - Andhra Pradesh
  • first Indian selected as a member of ccNSO - Ajay Data
  • world's largest stock exchange with 31 trillion dollars of stock market - US
  • World's 1st Hindi-Speaking Robot - Rashmi
  • first US company to reach $1 trillion market value - Apple
  • first State in india to implement the national policy on biofuels - Rajasthan
  • UP to 31st July 2018
  • first Asian to swim UK-France channel - Prabhat Koli
  • According to WMO , country has become nodal centre for preparing flash-flood forecasts to Asian nations - India
  • the most valued company in India by beating TCS - Reliance
  • India’s star batswoman Smriti Mandhana equalled the record for the fastest half-century in women’s T20 cricket during a Kia Super League encounter between Western Storm and Loughborough Lightning.
  • state would have its first 'cow sanctuary' - Rajasthan
  • First Nepal-India Think Tank Summit will begin in - Kathmandu
  • youngest Indian woman to scale the peak of Mount Everest - Shivangi Pathak
  • first international festival of Mizoram - Mizo Hnahthlak
  • state will set up a separate directorate for the Divyangs - Assam
  • first player from Pakistan to score a double century in a one-day international - Fakhar Zaman
  • country has become a popular hub of medical tourism - India
  • first meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Committee on Border Haats concluded in - Agartala, Tripura
  • first-ever CM to cover the entire state within first 16 months of his rule - Yogi Adityanath
  • country has got its first-ever woman Chief Justice of a high court - Pakistan
  • city has launched 'Walking Action Plan' to become the world's most walk-able city in the world - London
  • Best-governed state in India - Kerala
  • Athlete has broken own national 400 meters record - India
  • youngest Indian golfer to make the cut in any Major - Shubhankar Sharma
  • state will host India's first private sector quarterly in December-January - Odisha
  • first sports ambassador of Assam - Hima Das
  • country has topped an annual global ranking of nations' soft power - UK
  • World’s first Remote LEAP Microscope has unveiled in - IIT-Madras
  • state will get India’s 1st Skill Training Centre - Odisha
  • India’s first Defense incubators will be hosted in - Hyderabad
  • state will get world's cheapest clean drinking water through the concept of 'Sulabh Sauchalya' - Bihar
  • UP to 15th July 2018
  • first India Tourism Mart (ITM) 2018 will be organized at - New delhi
  • Century's longest total lunar eclipse to be seen in Dubai on - 27th July
  • fastest wicket keeper-batsman to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket - M S Dhoni
  • first transgender judge in Assam - Swati B Baruah
  • first state in india to appoint girls as district Brand Ambassador for Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao - Madhya Pradesh
  • india's largest visa centre in the world has inaugurated in - Bangladesh
  • state has topped revenue collection under GST - Haryana
  • first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the IAAF World U20 Championship - Hima Das
  • first state in the country to ban plastic and thermocol cutlery - Himachal Pradesh
  • Metro Rail will open India’s first exquisite air-conditioned bed space dormitory - Kochi
  • first India Tourism Mart will be organized in - New Delhi
  • Second Indian mountaineer to climb Mt Ojos del Salado ,Argentina - Satyarup Siddhanta
  • India’s first Private UAV Factory will be set up - Kota
  • Telecom operator has unveiled the country’s first internet telephony service that will allow users to dial any telephone number in India through its mobile app WINGS - BSNL
  • oldest Indian woman to complete an Ironman Triathlon - Anju Khosla
  • company has become the India's largest payer of Goods and Services Tax - Reliance
  • worlds's richest person - Jeff Bezos
  • world’s first digital art museum has opened in - Japan
  • India’s first e-waste recycling unit will be set up in - Bengaluru
  • state has launched 'Happiness Curriculum' for school students up to class 8 - Delhi
  • state will develop the India's first Khadi mall - Jharkhand
  • first transgender lawyer in india - Sathyasri Sharmila
  • According to Mercer's Survey, India's most expensive city - Mumbai
  • UP to 30th June 2018
  • first woman Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter pilot from South India - Meghana Shanbough
  • first woman Director General of Police (DGP) of Union Territory of Puducherry - Sundari Nanda
  • India's first oxo-biodegradable sanitary napkin has launched in - Bengaluru.
  • first long-term LNG cargo from Russia arrives in - Dahej, Gujarat
  • India’s first deluxe train from Mumbai to Pune marked 88 years of service - Deccan Queen
  • world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence & being forced into slave labour - India
  • India will host first military exercise of the BIMSTEC Countries in September 2018 in - Pune, Maharashtra
  • World’s largest multilateral naval exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) begun off in - Hawaii ,US
  • Mongolia broke ground for the construction of country’s first oil refinery with the help of a USD 1 billion loan from - India.
  • first Indian player to appear in Kia Super League - the women's cricket super league in England - Smriti Mandhana
  • first female MMA fighter to be inducted into the Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame - Ronda Rousey
  • India’s youngest & the world’s second youngest Grand Master - R Praggnanandhaa
  • first individual gold medal in six years at the Salt Lake World Cup, USA has won by - Archer Deepika Kumari
  • 16-year-old Indian shooter set a new world record by winning a gold medal in the ISSF Junior World Cup - Saurabh Chaudhary
  • new national record in the women’s 100-metre race by - India sprinter Dutee Chand
  • 100th Smart City in india - Shillong
  • world's first of its kind & state-of-the-art International Centre for ‘Humanitarian Forensics’ (ICHF) has launched in - Gujarat
  • Union Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Gandhi laid the foundation stone of India's first advanced DNA forensic laboratory in - Chandigarh
  • India’s first national sports university will be set up in - Manipur
  • India's first-ever national healthcare registry of authentic, standardised & updated geo-spatial data of all public & private healthcare establishments - National Health Resource Repository
  • Generating Systems (KGS-1) set a new record of the continuous operation of 766 days - Karnataka's Kaiga Generating Systems
  • President Danny Faure is on his first bilateral visit to India , He is the president of - Seychelles
  • Historic Trump-Kim Summit has taken place in - Singapore
  • UP to 31 st May 2018
  • World’s Largest International Maritime Exercise - RIMPAC
  • Paraguay first interim woman President - Alicia Pucheta
  • first Indian to be honoured with the Linnean Medal in Botany - Kamaljit S. Bawa
  • country has launched first ever guidelines for Adventure Tourism - India
  • PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated India's first highway to be lit by solar power in - Uttar Pradesh
  • According to UNEP, world's first fully solar energy-powered airport - Cochin International Airport
  • Oldest Indian woman to scale Mount Everest - Sangeeta Bahl
  • first chief financial officer (CFO) of the RBI - Sudha Balakrishnan
  • first edition of the Global Wind Summit will be held in - Germany
  • first female Prime Minister of Caribbean island - Mia Mottley
  • country has hosted its first SCO anti-terrorism meeting - Pakistan
  • first female UN political chief - Rosemary DiCarlo
  • Inida's first national sports university will be setup in - Manipur
  • first country to eliminate Trachoma - Nepal
  • first female president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) - Stacey Cunningham
  • world record by scaling three highest mountains in a single climbing season - Nima Jangmu Sherpa
  • India’s first copper options contracts - MCX
  • first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International Prize - Olga Tokarczuk
  • country will host first international tournament Since 1991 - Iraq
  • India’s first Centre for Energy Regulation (CER) has setup in - IIT-Kanpur
  • world’s first floating nuclear power station has unveiled in - Russia
  • youngest women of india to scale Mt Everest - Shivangi Pathak
  • first female director of Central Intelligence Agency - Gina Haspel
  • first Para-National Games will be Held Under Khelo India Scheme in - Bengaluru
  • India's first solar powered railway station - Guwahati
  • first All-Woman Post Office Passport Seva Kendra has started its operations in - Punjab
  • SAWEN has held its first ever meeting in india at - Kolkata
  • country's first domestically developed aircraft carrier began sea trials - China
  • largest remittance-receiving country in the world - India
  • first-ever Joint Conference between Indian Customs and Department of India Posts has held in - New Delhi
  • country has begun voting for its 1st parliamentary election - Iraq
  • state has launched the country's first Integrated Control & Command Centre (ICCC) for all its smart cities - Madhya Pradesh
  • India’s longest rail-cum-road bridge will be opened on - Brahmaputra
  • city to host the first apex conference for the CEOs of Smart Cities - Bhopal
  • first state organized census on Indus dolphins in - Punjab
  • First state to provide digitally-signed land record receipts - Maharastra
  • UP to 30 th April 2018
  • UP to 30 th April 2018
  • first Informal Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China's President Xi Jinping was held in - Wuhan ,China
  • first city in India that runs on 100 percent renewable energy during the daytime - Diu
  • Country will host the world's first female foreign ministers' meeting along with EU - Canada
  • first Indian company to hit market capitalisation of 100 billion dollar mark - Tata Consultancy Services
  • Airports Authority of India (AAI) first ever woman firefighter - Taniya Sanyal
  • first court in south India to introduce e-court fee payment facility - Madras High Court
  • First meeting of BRICS Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors has held in - Washington D.C
  • first ever international SME Convention has begun in - New Delhi
  • UP to 20 th April 2018
  • first Indian filmmaker to have his wax statue at the Madame Tussauds museum - Karan Johar
  • country has unveiled its first cinema in over 35 years - Saudi Arabia
  • According to Randstad study,Which has become the highest paying city for talent - Bengaluru
  • the first meeting of National Council on India's Nutrition Challenges under POSHAN Abhiyaan will be held in - New Delhi
  • Inida’s first ‘LED street light district’ - East Godavari
  • first person to swim across the Bangla Channel - Ramesh Shelar
  • World's first long-distance electric bus line has begun its service - in France
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first health centre under Ayushman Bharat Scheme in - Chhattisgarh
  • India's first wrestling gold medal in the common wealth games 2018 won by - Rahul Aware
  • IIT has installed India's first 5G radio laboratory - IIT-Delhi
  • World's Largest Solar Park will be set up - in Gujarat
  • first India-Nordic Summit held in - Stockholm
  • UP to 10 th April 2018
  • first meeting of NITI Forum for North East held in - Agartala
  • first state in the country to issue guidelines for declaring a patient as brain dead - Kerala
  • Humanity's first flight to Sun in July will be launched by - NASA
  • country is introducing national service for women for the first time - Qatar
  • first medallist of the 21st Commonwealth Games - Australian boxer Taylah Robertson
  • China will unveil the world's longest cross-sea bridge - China
  • first International Conference of Justice has held in - Morocco
  • the first City To Roll-Out Euro VI Fuel - New Delhi
  • UP to 31 st March 2018
  • first Director-General of the National Testing Agency - Vineet Joshi
  • first-ever mission dedicated to explore the deep interior of Mars send by - NASA
  • First ever National Conclave on Psychological Trauma, Child Protection, and Mental Illnesses organised in - New Delhi
  • India’s first insect museum has opened in - Tamil Nadu
  • first Indian district to have 100% solar-powered Primary Health Centres - Surat
  • fastest-ever bowler to reach 100 wickets in ODI - Rashid Khan
  • world’s biggest cruise-liner Symphony of the Seas has sailed in - France
  • fastest T20I fifty for an Indian batswoman has scored by - Smriti Mandhana
  • first-ever International Exhibition of Graphic Prints ‘Print Biennale India 2018’ has opened in - New Delhi
  • First commercial aircraft en route to Israel to fly over Saudi Arabia - Air India
  • Thaawarchand Gehlot has launched the first Indian Sign Language (ISL) Dictionary of three thousand words in - New Delhi
  • first Indian state to get tribal instructors for literacy - Kerala
  • the world’s fastest hypersonic wind tunnel will be build by - China
  • country has secured ODI status in ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018 for the first time - Nepal
  • world’s longest sandstone cave called ‘Krem Puri’ has discovered in - Meghalaya
  • the world’s last male northern white rhino has died in - Sudan
  • first G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors has begun in - Buenos Aires
  • first unit of Kishanganga project has commissioned in- Jammu & Kashmir
  • first National workshop on POSHAN Abhiyan has held in - New Delhi
  • first country in the world to deploy blockchain technology in election process - Sierra Leone
  • first regional conference on 'Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) for Urban Areas has held in - Kolkata
  • first-ever female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Gina Haspel
  • first state in india to conduct a household survey to estimate Multidimensional Poverty Index - Andhra Pradesh
  • India's tallest national flag has unfurled in - Karnataka
  • India’s first of its kind Sports Literature Festival held in - Chandigarh
  • first state to have a Transgender Welfare Board for welfare of transgender - Maharastra
  • India's first coastal policing academy has set up in - Gujarat
  • first-ever multi-nation naval exercise MILES 18 has begun - Andaman sea.
  • first Brand Ambassador for Uber India - Virat Kohli
  • india's fist state-led incubator for women - Telangana's Women Entrepreneurship Hub (WE-Hub)
  • Haryana’s first cyber police station has inaugurated in- Gurugram
  • first direct-entry combat officer in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police - Prakriti
  • first Union Territory in India to run 100 percent on solar power generated energy - Diu
  • first Indian to win 2018 Pritzker Prize - Balkrishna Doshi
  • first state to pass a law that protects net neutrality - Washington
  • first island country in world to recognize cryptocurrency as its legal tender - Marshall Islands
  • Country has allowed the women to participate in All-female marathon for the first time - Saudi Arabia
  • first state to set up 24-hour toll-free helpline to provide information to students - Tamil Nadu
  • first Mega Food Park of india has inaugurated in - Maharastra
  • UP to 28 th February 2018
  • single largest habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins in the world with the spotting of 155 such animals - Chilika lake in Odisha
  • first Indian to win an individual medal at the Gymnastics World Cup - Aruna Budda Reddy
  • first Indian Woman To Fly Fighter Aircraft Solo - Avani Chaturvedi
  • Player has set up a world record in 60 meters race - Christian Coleman (US)
  • country will host its first Arab Fashion - Saudi Arabia
  • the first foreign e-commerce firm to start its own food retail venture in India - Amazon
  • state government plans to introduce the geotag livestock farmer houses - Kerala
  • the oldest world No 1 male player in ATP rankings - Roger Federer
  • India's first institute for artificial intelligence (AI) will be opened - Mumbai
  • first state to sponsor a national hockey team - Odisha
  • Senior Women's National Football Championship for the first time - Tamil Nadu
  • state will establish its first law university - Jammu & Kashmir
  • India's first radio festival is being held in - New Delhi
  • India's 1st Online Radio Station - Radio Umang
  • 8th edition of Theatre Olympics 2018 for the first time in - India
  • first state to opt out of ‘Modicare’ - West Bengal
  • first Indian golfer to qualify for the China Ladies PGA Tour - Sharmila Nicollet
  • the first Asian as well as the first Indian to swim across the Ocean Seven - Rohan More
  • The Minister of Road Transport & Highways Mr Nitin Gadkari released India’s first ever Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) in - New Delhi.
  • World's first autonomous pods and world's tallest hotel have unveiled in - Dubai
  • The most congested country 2017 in the world - Thailand
  • A record was set on the second day of Rajim Kumbh Mela in Chhattisgarh after over 2,100 saints and locals blew shankh (conch shells) together in - Chhattisgarh
  • first country to cross the 2 million mark visitors in dubai - India
  • ICC's first independent female director - Indra Nooyi
  • the first railway zone in india to complete 100% LED lighting - South Central Railway
  • bank has unveiled a new musical logo called 'MOGO' - IndusInd Bank
  • International airport has become world’s busiest airport for international travel - Dubai International Airport
  • first ever chat-based job search mobile app in India - Empzilla
  • the first flight of Hawk-i with indigenous Real Time Operating System has developed by - Hindustan Aeronautics
  • first country In World To Abolish Same-Sex Marriage - Bermuda
  • first woman in the world to take 200 wickets in ODI's - Jhulan Goswami
  • world’s most powerful operational rocket Falcon Heavy towards Mars launched by - SpaceX
  • floating burger joint has billed as the world first sustainable floating drive-thru will come up in - Dubai
  • the highest ranked Indian in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings - Saurav Ghosal
  • the busiest single-runway airport in the world - Mumbai airport
  • country has launched world's smallest rocket to carry a satellite - Japan
  • India’s first sentiment index for micro and small enterprises with CRISIL has developed by - SIDBI
  • the largest floating treatment wetland having plants as cleaning agents has inaugurated - Hyderabad
  • Country has launched World's Longest Zip Line - UAE
  • first low-income country to provide universal eye care for its population - Rwanda
  • UP to 1 st February 2018
  • world's oldest man has died at 113 - Francisco Nunez Olivera (Spain)
  • state has approved a proposal to provide sanitary napkins to women in rural areas - Maharashtra
  • PM Modi has launched first Khelo India School Games in - New Delhi
  • India-Vietnam first ever Bilateral Army Exercise (VINBAX-2018) has held in - Jabalpur,Madhya Pradesh
  • first ever 'Khadi Haat' has launched in - New Delhi
  • first cricketer from Nepal to land a deal an IPL contract - Sandeep Lamichhane
  • Team has won its maiden Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy - Delhi
  • first Oxford Dictionaries Hindi Word of the Year - Aadhaar
  • first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) - Usha Ananthasubramanian
  • first Indian Metro to get a Floating Market - Kolkata
  • first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for cinematography - Rachel Morrison
  • first state to enforce the ban on the sale of tobacco in shops selling FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) - Maharashtra
  • India's first Garbage Festival Kachra Mahotsav 2018 has organised in - Chhattisgarh
  • Union Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj inaugurated first Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) in - Sushma Swaraj
  • state has introduced the new technology to use Ultrasound method to detect pregnancy in wild animals - Uttarakhand
  • Romania's first female Prime Minister - Viorica Dancila
  • first African-American board member in Facebook - Kenneth Chenault
  • Country has announced the world’s first public register - Britan
  • India's first state to launch Public Cloud Policy to speed up e-governance - Maharashtra
  • first Indian Bank to Cross Rs 5 trillion Market Capitalisation - HDFC Bank
  • first country to be connected to India’s National Knowledge Network (NKN) through a Gigabyte optical fiber network - Srilanka
  • first officially registered trade union for the IT sector in India - FITE
  • first woman lawyer directly appointed as Supreme court judge - Indu Malhotra
  • india’s first Railway Station to Have Happy Nari Pad-Vending Machine - Bhopal railway station
  • country has held its first security dialogue with India - Indonesia
  • first battery-powered payment card has introduced by - IndusInd Bank
  • According to Bloomberg , richest man in the history - Jeff Bezos
  • India's first ever international medal in skiing won by - Aanchal Thakur
  • country will host first-ever 'Baby Olympics' - Bahrain
  • railway station has entered Limca Book of Records for having an all-woman staff - Matunga suburban station , Mumbai
  • World’s largest ice festival - 4th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival has held in - China
  • first Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Award for Probity in Politics and Public Life winner - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
  • first Metro city in india to have a common mobility card - Delhi
  • India's fastest supercomputer - Pratyush
  • UP to 08th January 2018
  • state bagged first prize for implementation of e-tendering process - West Bengal
  • first African-American to win Golden Globe - Sterling K Brown
  • first state in india to launch High Risk Pregnancy (HRP) Portal - Haryana
  • India’s first National Park for differently abled people has inaugurated in - Hyderabad
  • first ever Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018 to be organised in - Kathmandu, Nepal
  • first country in the world to legalise equal pay between men and women - Iceland
  • world’s biggest cleanliness survey Swachh Sarvekshan Survey 2018 was launched in - India
  • India’s highest- ranked player in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings - G Sathiyan
  • state has released the first draft of National Register of Citizens - Assam
  • country has introduced value-added tax for the first time along with UAE - Saudi Arabia
  • team has won its first ever Ranji Trophy title - Vidarbha
  • country has successfully tested its first photo-voltaic highway - China
  • first state to offer free power to farmers 24 hours a day - Telengana
  • Guinness World Record in yoga marathon by performing the longest yoga marathon for - Kavitha Bharanidaran
  • world’s largest human genome research project of 100,000 people has launched by - China
  • India’s first mobile application for transacting in virtual currencies has launched by - Pluto Exchange
  • India's first Payments App to Cross 100 mn Downloads on Play Store - Paytm
  • country hosted a world chess tournament for the first time - Saudi Arabia
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