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India women beat England by 270 runs in first women's Test at Lord's

India's women's cricket team beat England by 270 runs on 13 July 2026 in the one-off Test at Lord's, the first women's Test ever played at the ground.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Gujarat Important

Gandhinagar sets Guinness World Record with 3.61 lakh saplings in one hour

The Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency set a Guinness World Record on 12 July 2026 by planting over 3.61 lakh saplings in one hour using the Miyawaki method, during a mass plantation drive launched by Amit Shah.

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🚄 Energy & Power 📍 Rajasthan Must know

PM Modi dedicates HPCL Rajasthan Refinery at Pachpadra, launches Rs 1.06 lakh crore projects in Balotra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the 9 MMTPA HPCL Rajasthan refinery-cum-petrochemical complex at Pachpadra to the nation at Balotra, Rajasthan on 4 July 2026, as part of projects worth about Rs 1.06 lakh crore.

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🔬 IT, AI & Digital 📍 Gujarat Must know

PM Modi inaugurates CG Semi OSAT facility at Sanand, India's third semiconductor plant in commercial production

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the CG Semi Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility at Sanand, Gujarat on 4 July 2026, the third semiconductor plant in India to start commercial production this year.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Jammu and Kashmir

APEDA flags off first export of Areko cherries and Scentrose plums from J&K to UAE

APEDA facilitated the virtual flag-off of the first export shipment of Areko cherries and Scentrose plums from Shopian and Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir to Abu Dhabi and Dubai (announced 4 July 2026).

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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 Bihar Important

Munger banyan, about 700 years old, is the oldest accurately dated banyan

A banyan tree in Munger, Bihar, about 700 years old, has been identified as the oldest accurately dated banyan (Ficus benghalensis) through radiocarbon dating by scientists of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow (announced 3 July 2026).

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Uttar Pradesh Important

Sonowal unveils first Made-in-India EXIM shipping container for Maersk at Dadri

Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal unveiled India's first export-import shipping container made in India for A.P. Moller-Maersk at the Maersk-CONCOR Inland Container Depot in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh on 3 July 2026, and Maersk ordered 1,000 more.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Andhra Pradesh Important

India's first PinS instrument approach procedure for helicopters approved at Undavalli Heliport

India's first private Point-in-Space (PinS) instrument approach procedure for helicopter operations, developed by AAI and approved by DGCA, was approved for Undavalli Heliport, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on 1 July 2026.

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🏅 Sports 📍 Gujarat Important

India wins maiden AVC Men's Volleyball Cup medal, a bronze

Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya felicitated India's men's volleyball team in Gandhinagar on 29 June 2026 after it won the country's first-ever medal at the AVC Men's Volleyball Cup, a bronze, at the 2026 edition hosted by India for the first time.

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🌐 Bilateral Relations 📍 Seychelles Important

Modi becomes first Indian PM to address the National Assembly of Seychelles

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an Extraordinary Sitting of the National Assembly of Seychelles on 28 June 2026, the first Indian Prime Minister to do so.

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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 Tamil Nadu Must know

World's first copper–chlorine hydrogen plant using nuclear heat inaugurated at IGCAR, Kalpakkam

The Department of Atomic Energy inaugurated the world's first hydrogen production facility based on the Copper–Chlorine thermochemical cycle using nuclear heat from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at IGCAR, Kalpakkam, on 26 June 2026.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Uttar Pradesh Important

India's first 'Easy Connect' hub-and-spoke international flight launched from Varanasi

Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu launched India's first 'Easy Connect' flight under the Hub-and-Spoke model from Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Varanasi, on 25 June 2026.

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💹 Economy 📍 India Must know

Critical mineral auctions reach 56 blocks; first Centre-run critical mineral blocks auctioned in Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Telangana

The Ministry of Mines announced on 23 June 2026 that 10 critical and strategic mineral blocks were auctioned in the Seventh Tranche, taking the total to 56 out of 88 blocks.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 India Important

NHAI signs MoU with NCAER to set up India's first permanent research centre on transport economics

NHAI announced on 23 June 2026 an MoU with NCAER to establish the NHAI Centre for Economics of Transportation, Mobility and Logistics at NCAER.

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🏅 Athletics 📍 Kerala Important

India hosts first-ever 2026 Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games Fun Run in Thiruvananthapuram with over 40,000 participants

More than 40,000 people took part in India's first-ever 2026 Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games Fun Run in Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam, on 23 June 2026.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 India Must know

India becomes world's top ship recycling nation in 2025 with 35.4% share, per UNCTAD

The Ports Ministry said on 22 June 2026 that India ranked first in global ship recycling in 2025, with its share rising to 35.4% from 30.1% in 2024, according to UNCTAD.

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🛡️ Weapons & Induction 📍 West Bengal Must know

PM Modi commissions INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray in Kolkata

On 21 June 2026 at Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned three indigenously designed and built naval ships: INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray.

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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 Gujarat Important

DAE opens deuterated compounds plant and commissions prototype sodium cell at HWBF Vadodara

DAE Secretary Ajit Kumar Mohanty inaugurated the Versatile Deuterated compounds Production Plant and commissioned a 24 kA Prototype Sodium Cell at Heavy Water Board Facilities, Vadodara, on 21 June 2026.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 Odisha Important

APEDA facilitates first-ever export of dried whole egg powder from Odisha to Austria

APEDA announced on 20 June 2026 the first-ever commercial export of dried whole egg powder from Balangir, Odisha, to Austria.

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🌐 International Organisations 📍 India Must know

Vivek Aggarwal becomes India's first FATF Vice-President, for July 2026–June 2027

On 19 June 2026, the Government announced that Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, has been elected and appointed Vice-President of the FATF for July 2026–June 2027, the first time India holds the post.

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🛡️ Defence & Security 📍 Maharashtra Important

Rajnath Singh opens NIBE defence complex at Shirdi; India's first 300 km rocket launcher 'Suryastra' flagged off

On 23 May 2026 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated a private-sector NIBE Group defence manufacturing complex at Shirdi and flagged off 'Suryastra', India's first 300 km Universal Rocket Launching System.

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🏅 Athletics 📍 Jharkhand Important

Three national records at Federation Cup in Ranchi: Gurindervir (100m), Vishal T.K. (400m), Tejaswin (decathlon)

On 23 May 2026 at the Federation Cup in Ranchi, Gurindervir Singh ran 10.09s in the 100m, Vishal T.K. 44.98s in the 400m and Tejaswin Shankar scored 8,057 points in the decathlon, all national records.

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🏆 International Awards 📍 Europe Important

PM Modi receives Sweden's Royal Order of the Polar Star, Degree Commander Grand Cross; first Asian leader to get it

On 17 May 2026 Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden conferred the Royal Order of the Polar Star, Degree Commander Grand Cross, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gothenburg, making him the first Asian leader to receive it.

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🛡️ Internal Security 📍 Delhi Must know

Operation RAGEPILL: NCB makes India's first-ever seizure of Captagon, 227.7 kg worth ₹182 crore

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) announced on 16 May 2026 that Operation RAGEPILL had produced India's first-ever seizure of Captagon – about 227.7 kg of tablets and powder worth about ₹182 crore – and the arrest of a Syrian national.

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🔬 Science & Technology 📍 Rajasthan Important

Rajasthan gets its first semiconductor plant: Sahasra Semiconductors' OSAT unit at Bhiwadi

On 15 May 2026 Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw virtually inaugurated Sahasra Semiconductors' ATMP/OSAT facility – Rajasthan's first semiconductor plant and India's first SME-led semiconductor facility – and ELCINA's Electronics Manufacturing Cluster at Bhiwadi.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 India Important

NMDC becomes India's first mining company to produce 50 million tonnes of iron ore in a year

NMDC Limited became the first mining company in India to produce 50 million tonnes of iron ore in a single financial year, the Steel Ministry announced on 13 March 2026.

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🔬 Health & Medicine 📍 Delhi

Army Hospital (R&R) Delhi performs world's first angiography-guided Hydrus Microstent glaucoma surgery

On 10 March 2026 at the Army Hospital (Research & Referral), Delhi, surgeons performed the world's first implantation of the Hydrus Microstent guided by intraoperative aqueous angiography, together with cataract surgery.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Assam Important

Sonowal lays foundation of India's first riverine lighthouses on the Brahmaputra (NW-2)

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stones of four lighthouses on the Brahmaputra at Lachit Ghat, Guwahati, on 5 March 2026, the first lighthouses on an inland waterway in India.

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🏅 Other Sports 📍 India

Mandaviya unveils logo of Cycling League of India, the world's first franchise-based road cycling league

Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya unveiled the logo of the Cycling League of India, described as the world's first franchise-based road cycling league, on 5 March 2026.

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🏅 Cricket 📍 Jammu and Kashmir Important

Jammu and Kashmir win maiden Ranji Trophy title

Jammu and Kashmir won their first-ever Ranji Trophy title on 28 February 2026 at the KSCA Stadium, Hubballi, Karnataka, on first-innings lead after the final against Karnataka was drawn.

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