Firsts & Records Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sat, 29 Nov 2025

• On 29 November 2025 Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched the production version of Hansa-3 (NG), India's first all-composite two-seater trainer aircraft, at CSIR–NAL, Bengaluru.

Tue, 11 Nov 2025

• Union Power Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated India's largest and first MWh-scale Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) system, of 3 MWh capacity, at NTPC's R&D centre NETRA in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on 11 November 2025.
• The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) released ₹43.22 lakh of patent-linked Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) funds for the first time, the Environment Ministry said on 11 November 2025; the money came from patent applications that used Indian biological resources.

Sun, 02 Nov 2025

• India won their first ICC Women's Cricket World Cup by beating South Africa by 52 runs in the final at Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai, on 2 November 2025.

Wed, 29 Oct 2025

• President Droupadi Murmu took a sortie in a Rafale fighter at Air Force Station Ambala, Haryana, on 29 October 2025, becoming the first President of India to fly in two IAF fighter aircraft.

Thu, 16 Oct 2025

• NMDC Steel Limited became the first company in India to receive a BIS licence under IS 18384:2023 for hot-rolled steel strip, sheet and plates for welded steel pipes for pipeline transportation, presented at World Standards Day 2025 in Raipur (PIB, 16 October 2025).

Mon, 06 Oct 2025

• On 6 October 2025 Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy and Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu inaugurated the Namchik Namphuk Coal Mine in Changlang district, the state's first commercial coal mining project, with reserves of 1.5 crore tonnes.

Sun, 05 Oct 2025

• On 5 October 2025 at Kopargaon in Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the country's first cooperative multi-feed Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant.
• On 5 October 2025 at its Central Workshop in Korba, Chhattisgarh, South Eastern Coalfields Limited opened Coal India's first fully women-operated Central Store Unit.

Thu, 11 Sept 2025

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually flagged off 'Samudra Pradakshina', the world's first tri-service all-women circumnavigation sailing expedition, from the Gateway of India, Mumbai on 11 September 2025 aboard IASV Triveni.

Thu, 28 Aug 2025

• The Army Hospital (Research and Referral) on 28 August 2025 became the first government institute in India to perform robotic custom laser cataract surgery using the ALLY system.

Mon, 25 Aug 2025

• The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying released India's first national 'Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures for Blood Transfusion and Blood Banks for Animals in India' on 25 August 2025.

Mon, 28 Jul 2025

• On 28 July 2025 in Batumi, Georgia, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh of Nagpur beat Koneru Humpy 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks to win the FIDE Women's World Cup.

Sat, 26 Jul 2025

• On 26 July 2025 in Male, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 60th anniversary celebrations of Maldives' independence as Guest of Honour.

Tue, 15 Jul 2025

• On 15 July 2025, the Axiom-4 SpaceX Dragon carrying ISRO Gaganyatri Shubhanshu Shukla splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California shortly after 3 PM IST.

Mon, 14 Jul 2025

• On 14 July 2025, SECL inaugurated the Vasant Vihar Dispensary at its Bilaspur headquarters in Chhattisgarh as Coal India's first fully women-operated dispensary.

Sun, 13 Jul 2025

• On 13 July 2025 at Wimbledon, London, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner beat two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to win the men's singles title.

Fri, 30 May 2025

• The first-ever batch of 17 female cadets passed out of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, on 30 May 2025 with the 148th Course, in a parade reviewed by Mizoram Governor General (Dr) VK Singh (Retd).

Mon, 05 May 2025

• India's first mortgage-backed Pass Through Certificates (PTCs), structured by RMBS Development Company Limited, were listed on the National Stock Exchange on 5 May 2025.

Sun, 04 May 2025

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 4 May 2025 announced two genome-edited rice varieties developed by ICAR, DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) and Pusa DST Rice 1, which the Ministry described as the world's first.

Fri, 02 May 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the ₹8,800 crore Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to the nation on 2 May 2025.

Thu, 01 May 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated WAVES 2025, the first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit, at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai on 1 May 2025.

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

• Bharat Coking Coal Limited, a Coal India subsidiary, monetised its 2 MTPA Dugda Coal Washery in Bokaro, Jharkhand, the first monetisation of a coal washery in India, the Ministry of Coal said on 19 March 2025.

Tue, 18 Mar 2025

• Indore is setting up India's first green waste processing plant on the public-private partnership model under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said on 18 March 2025.

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

• INSV Tarini, sailed by Indian Navy officers Lt Cdr Dilna K and Lt Cdr Roopa A, crossed Point Nemo in the South Pacific at 0030 hrs IST on 30 January 2025 during the third leg of Navika Sagar Parikrama II.
• Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh launched 'Mana Mitra' WhatsApp Governance at Undavalli, Amaravati on 30 January 2025, offering 161 government services on WhatsApp in the first phase.

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

• ISRO's GSLV-F15 lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota at 06:23 hrs on 29 January 2025 carrying the NVS-02 navigation satellite, the 100th launch from India's spaceport.

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

• The Government of Tripura signed an MoU with MeitY's Digital India Bhashini Division in Agartala on 28 January 2025, becoming the first North-Eastern state and the eighth state in India to do so.

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

• The Uniform Civil Code, Uttarakhand, 2024 came into force on 27 January 2025, making Uttarakhand the first state in independent India to implement a UCC.

Sun, 26 Jan 2025

• A tri-services tableau themed 'Shashakt aur Surakshit Bharat' took part in the Republic Day Parade for the first time on 26 January 2025.